Inge Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 119332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inge Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inge |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5829-4721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Now they’re going to find us on a map’
Local councils often struggle with how and when to insert novel urban planning ideas into local discourses and effect change from ‘above’. This article examines the pre-suasive communication strategies employed by the Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) to realign the city's planning horizons and branding, and to convince stakeholders that the Moreton Bay Region (MBR) should become a city. Support for the proposed changes was initially uncertain …
Consideration of student evaluations of teaching (SET) and learning
This paper explores institutional leaders’ perceptions of learning and teaching involved in facilitating and assessing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) survey instruments across Australian regional universities. It focuses on how they understand the function of SET, strategies used to mitigate bias, and potential residual harm. Through adopting a combination of inductive and deductive research processes and a thematic analysis through the et…
Adapting, modifying and applying cinematography and editing concepts and techniques to cinematic virtual reality film production
Virtual reality (VR) filmmaking presents a unique cinematic experience requiring new and innovative ways to conceptualise and practice specific aspects of the production process. This article integrates a range of adapted and modified filmmaking thinking, approaches and components into the cinematic virtual reality (CVR) language and grammar in the two critical areas of cinematography and editing. This focus provides a range of possible strategie…
Community development, bricolage, and celebrity-driven activism
Celebrity journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn launched Half the Sky, a book exploring the feasibility of mass-awareness and community-based campaigning platforms. The book, which created a grassroots feminist movement for women in the Global South, had broad cultural effects, with the publisher launching a 25th hardcopy print run within a year of its 2009 release. The Half the Sky movement lasted over a decade, maintaining momentum via…
Media self-regulation in the Pacific Islands
Common concerns exist across the Pacific Islands' region over the quality of media reporting, absence of common media standards and enforcement mechanisms with regard to journalism ethics and implementation of increasingly tighter government regulations. This study surveyed working media professionals in the Pacific Islands on the feasibility of establishing a regional self-regulatory media system. It uses an internationally accepted analytical b…
Constructing the Meaning of Nanotechnology in the United States
This study employed a content analysis approach to consider the coverage of nanotechnology reports in the New York Times from 1985 to 2004. Patterns and trends of discourse within the national newspaper in terms of political, economic, social, cultural and technological factors were examined using a socio-linguistic approach. Results from the analysis of 243 news articles show a significant rise in the number of reports in general, with a specifi…
Mobile, online and angry
This article examines the role and power of online media in representing an emerging culture of social activism and protests in both urban and rural China. It focuses on the discursive practices of China's citizenry in utilising the global dimensions of online media within a localised and situated context, to reflect upon, construct and transform social practices with Chinese characteristics. This article utilises a cross-case method to compare a…
Negotiating Identity
"Roots tourism" is loosely defined as a type of tourism in which ethnic minorities visit their ancestral lands to discover ethnic roots and culture. Despite the recent popularity of this type of tourism, many gaps remain in the study of roots tourism, particularly about its influence on the tourists' identity. This exploratory study investigates the ways in which second and subsequent generations of Chinese Americans discuss their identity and fe…
Commodifying digital television in China
This study examines public discourse surrounding the development and deployment of digital television in China from 1999 to 2004. It analyzes print media constructions of this new media technology against the backdrop of controlled commodification and formation of trans-media groups that define media reform, development and management.The study reveals how these structural changes play a key role in restraining the development of a flexible busin…
Internet Software Piracy in China
China's entry into the global networked society has raised considerable debate over what is derived from the development and expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs). One of the hotly debated issues is Internet copyright piracy, which is critical to the credibility and stability of China's membership to the global networked society. This paper examines Chinese users’ online discussion about Internet software piracy as local …
State, power and mobile communication
China's telecommunications and information industry has seen unprecedented growth since the turn of the century, with the mobile telephony sector driving significant expansion. This article examines the Chinese government's strategy for managing the complexities of socio-economic changes created by the widespread adoption of mobile telephony. The study found that the government's adoption of subtler forms of power establishes a relational contrac…
Internet and self-regulation in China
This article examines the implementation of self-regulation in China’s internet sector through the forging of subtler control relationships between media corporations and the state. It uses three case studies of domestic and global media joint venture operations in the converging areas of online and mobile gaming to show how media commercialization is balanced by control modalities to reaffirm the government as a central agency in the gradual tra…
Digitizing the dragon
China's aggressive strategy to develop a modern economy is matched only by an even more ambitious program of technological development. The Chinese government has earmarked digital broadcasting as the pre-eminent media technology to emerge in China's expanding and diversifying mediascape. Yet, in spite of predictions of 30 million subscribers by 2005 and $220 billion in revenue by 2015, there is still much to do to sell digital broadcasting to co…
Patriotism and the Limits of Globalization
Singapore, as one of the world's most globalized nations, has undergone a series of tumultuous political and economic crises that has forced the nation's leaders to adopt a very proactive stance to the formation of national identity. To create an imagined nation that would secure economic growth and harmonious ethnic ties, the leaders of the nation chose to define Singapore as a global city, which has had a long-term effect of lessening citizen l…
Localizing the Global
Globalization of Asian markets has focused attention on the flow of western cultural products into Asian countries as they attempt to manage global economics at a local level. Countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and China have responded to what is deemed western cultural hegemony by initiating protectionist media policies to limit perceived negative influences of foreign cultural imperialism on their societies and maintain appropriate levels of…
Constructing the Meaning of Digital Television in Britain, the United States and Australia
Much has been written about digital television. Mainstream reports range from a vague televisual utopia where one need never unplug oneself from the TV ever again to the social realities and practicalities of a consumer driven market. This study examines how the media constructs the meaning of digital television in Britain, the United States and Australia. Rogers' (1983, 1995) diffusion of innovation theory to assess the rate of diffusion the rol…
Reconfiguring Chinese Propaganda and Control Modalities
China's television industry has experienced a number of internal changes that have shaped this system's structure into the new millennium. The Chinese Government has reconfigured the propaganda and control modalities of this industry to allow television to become the prime mover for economic reform. A case study of Shanghai's dynamic television system from 1995 to 1999 is used to understand the changes that have taken place. This analysis provide…
Communicating Styles
Growth of China's Internet raises important issues in relation to the way related policies are communicated and interpreted. Recent key policy statements in 1997 and 2000 have attempted to guide the development of the Internet so it contributes to China's economic growth without jeopardising national security through losing control of this important information and communication technology tool. Policy development has been gradual, with 'newer' r…
Shanghai Baby
Shanghai Baby has been dismissed as another example of the grunge and shock literature genre emerging from modern Chinese writers. Detractors have described it as 'decadent', 'debauched' and 'pornographic' with the author labelled as a 'slave to Western culture'. However, a closer examination of Zhou Wei Hui's controversial semi-autobiography reveals an adroit social commentary on youth's ongoing negotiation of self-identity in China's complex an…
Challenges facing China's television advertising industry in the age of spiritual civilisation
Foreign firms face a number of cultural, legal and industry challenges as China's television advertising industry is asked to contribute not only to the country's material civilisation but also its spiritual civilisation. Since the early 1990s, Chinese Government policies have focused on advertising content in relation to both censorship and moral issues. This paper provides an insight into the challenges facing advertising and outlines opportuni…
Tactile communication among free‐ranging langurs
Tactile behavior of Indian langurs was studied in the field and analyzed in the context of the complex process of communication; thus the character of the interactions created, defined, and modified by individual tactile behavior is emphasized. In the total process of communication, tactile contact is the most intimate, since only it requires the renunciation of individual space. This paper interprets the various forms of tactile communication in…
Internet and self-regulation in China
This article examines the implementation of self-regulation in China’s internet sector through the forging of subtler control relationships between media corporations and the state. It uses three case studies of domestic and global media joint venture operations in the converging areas of online and mobile gaming to show how media commercialization is balanced by control modalities to reaffirm the government as a central agency in the gradual tra…
Localizing the Global
Globalization of Asian markets has focused attention on the flow of western cultural products into Asian countries as they attempt to manage global economics at a local level. Countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and China have responded to what is deemed western cultural hegemony by initiating protectionist media policies to limit perceived negative influences of foreign cultural imperialism on their societies and maintain appropriate levels of…
Tactile communication among free‐ranging langurs
Tactile behavior of Indian langurs was studied in the field and analyzed in the context of the complex process of communication; thus the character of the interactions created, defined, and modified by individual tactile behavior is emphasized. In the total process of communication, tactile contact is the most intimate, since only it requires the renunciation of individual space. This paper interprets the various forms of tactile communication in…
Shanghai Baby
Shanghai Baby has been dismissed as another example of the grunge and shock literature genre emerging from modern Chinese writers. Detractors have described it as 'decadent', 'debauched' and 'pornographic' with the author labelled as a 'slave to Western culture'. However, a closer examination of Zhou Wei Hui's controversial semi-autobiography reveals an adroit social commentary on youth's ongoing negotiation of self-identity in China's complex an…
State, power and mobile communication
China's telecommunications and information industry has seen unprecedented growth since the turn of the century, with the mobile telephony sector driving significant expansion. This article examines the Chinese government's strategy for managing the complexities of socio-economic changes created by the widespread adoption of mobile telephony. The study found that the government's adoption of subtler forms of power establishes a relational contrac…
Mobile, online and angry
This article examines the role and power of online media in representing an emerging culture of social activism and protests in both urban and rural China. It focuses on the discursive practices of China's citizenry in utilising the global dimensions of online media within a localised and situated context, to reflect upon, construct and transform social practices with Chinese characteristics. This article utilises a cross-case method to compare a…
Reconfiguring Chinese Propaganda and Control Modalities
China's television industry has experienced a number of internal changes that have shaped this system's structure into the new millennium. The Chinese Government has reconfigured the propaganda and control modalities of this industry to allow television to become the prime mover for economic reform. A case study of Shanghai's dynamic television system from 1995 to 1999 is used to understand the changes that have taken place. This analysis provide…
Constructing the Meaning of Digital Television in Britain, the United States and Australia
Much has been written about digital television. Mainstream reports range from a vague televisual utopia where one need never unplug oneself from the TV ever again to the social realities and practicalities of a consumer driven market. This study examines how the media constructs the meaning of digital television in Britain, the United States and Australia. Rogers' (1983, 1995) diffusion of innovation theory to assess the rate of diffusion the rol…
Patriotism and the Limits of Globalization
Singapore, as one of the world's most globalized nations, has undergone a series of tumultuous political and economic crises that has forced the nation's leaders to adopt a very proactive stance to the formation of national identity. To create an imagined nation that would secure economic growth and harmonious ethnic ties, the leaders of the nation chose to define Singapore as a global city, which has had a long-term effect of lessening citizen l…
Community development, bricolage, and celebrity-driven activism
Celebrity journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn launched Half the Sky, a book exploring the feasibility of mass-awareness and community-based campaigning platforms. The book, which created a grassroots feminist movement for women in the Global South, had broad cultural effects, with the publisher launching a 25th hardcopy print run within a year of its 2009 release. The Half the Sky movement lasted over a decade, maintaining momentum via…
Commodifying digital television in China
This study examines public discourse surrounding the development and deployment of digital television in China from 1999 to 2004. It analyzes print media constructions of this new media technology against the backdrop of controlled commodification and formation of trans-media groups that define media reform, development and management.The study reveals how these structural changes play a key role in restraining the development of a flexible busin…
Digitizing the dragon
China's aggressive strategy to develop a modern economy is matched only by an even more ambitious program of technological development. The Chinese government has earmarked digital broadcasting as the pre-eminent media technology to emerge in China's expanding and diversifying mediascape. Yet, in spite of predictions of 30 million subscribers by 2005 and $220 billion in revenue by 2015, there is still much to do to sell digital broadcasting to co…
Communicating Styles
Growth of China's Internet raises important issues in relation to the way related policies are communicated and interpreted. Recent key policy statements in 1997 and 2000 have attempted to guide the development of the Internet so it contributes to China's economic growth without jeopardising national security through losing control of this important information and communication technology tool. Policy development has been gradual, with 'newer' r…
Tactile communication among free‐ranging langurs
Tactile behavior of Indian langurs was studied in the field and analyzed in the context of the complex process of communication; thus the character of the interactions created, defined, and modified by individual tactile behavior is emphasized. In the total process of communication, tactile contact is the most intimate, since only it requires the renunciation of individual space. This paper interprets the various forms of tactile communication in…
Challenges facing China's television advertising industry in the age of spiritual civilisation
Foreign firms face a number of cultural, legal and industry challenges as China's television advertising industry is asked to contribute not only to the country's material civilisation but also its spiritual civilisation. Since the early 1990s, Chinese Government policies have focused on advertising content in relation to both censorship and moral issues. This paper provides an insight into the challenges facing advertising and outlines opportuni…
Constructing the Meaning of Digital Television in Britain, the United States and Australia
Much has been written about digital television. Mainstream reports range from a vague televisual utopia where one need never unplug oneself from the TV ever again to the social realities and practicalities of a consumer driven market. This study examines how the media constructs the meaning of digital television in Britain, the United States and Australia. Rogers' (1983, 1995) diffusion of innovation theory to assess the rate of diffusion the rol…
Reconfiguring Chinese Propaganda and Control Modalities
China's television industry has experienced a number of internal changes that have shaped this system's structure into the new millennium. The Chinese Government has reconfigured the propaganda and control modalities of this industry to allow television to become the prime mover for economic reform. A case study of Shanghai's dynamic television system from 1995 to 1999 is used to understand the changes that have taken place. This analysis provide…
Communicating Styles
Growth of China's Internet raises important issues in relation to the way related policies are communicated and interpreted. Recent key policy statements in 1997 and 2000 have attempted to guide the development of the Internet so it contributes to China's economic growth without jeopardising national security through losing control of this important information and communication technology tool. Policy development has been gradual, with 'newer' r…
Shanghai Baby
Shanghai Baby has been dismissed as another example of the grunge and shock literature genre emerging from modern Chinese writers. Detractors have described it as 'decadent', 'debauched' and 'pornographic' with the author labelled as a 'slave to Western culture'. However, a closer examination of Zhou Wei Hui's controversial semi-autobiography reveals an adroit social commentary on youth's ongoing negotiation of self-identity in China's complex an…
Patriotism and the Limits of Globalization
Singapore, as one of the world's most globalized nations, has undergone a series of tumultuous political and economic crises that has forced the nation's leaders to adopt a very proactive stance to the formation of national identity. To create an imagined nation that would secure economic growth and harmonious ethnic ties, the leaders of the nation chose to define Singapore as a global city, which has had a long-term effect of lessening citizen l…
Localizing the Global
Globalization of Asian markets has focused attention on the flow of western cultural products into Asian countries as they attempt to manage global economics at a local level. Countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and China have responded to what is deemed western cultural hegemony by initiating protectionist media policies to limit perceived negative influences of foreign cultural imperialism on their societies and maintain appropriate levels of…
Digitizing the dragon
China's aggressive strategy to develop a modern economy is matched only by an even more ambitious program of technological development. The Chinese government has earmarked digital broadcasting as the pre-eminent media technology to emerge in China's expanding and diversifying mediascape. Yet, in spite of predictions of 30 million subscribers by 2005 and $220 billion in revenue by 2015, there is still much to do to sell digital broadcasting to co…
State, power and mobile communication
China's telecommunications and information industry has seen unprecedented growth since the turn of the century, with the mobile telephony sector driving significant expansion. This article examines the Chinese government's strategy for managing the complexities of socio-economic changes created by the widespread adoption of mobile telephony. The study found that the government's adoption of subtler forms of power establishes a relational contrac…
Internet and self-regulation in China
This article examines the implementation of self-regulation in China’s internet sector through the forging of subtler control relationships between media corporations and the state. It uses three case studies of domestic and global media joint venture operations in the converging areas of online and mobile gaming to show how media commercialization is balanced by control modalities to reaffirm the government as a central agency in the gradual tra…
Internet Software Piracy in China
China's entry into the global networked society has raised considerable debate over what is derived from the development and expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs). One of the hotly debated issues is Internet copyright piracy, which is critical to the credibility and stability of China's membership to the global networked society. This paper examines Chinese users’ online discussion about Internet software piracy as local …
Negotiating Identity
"Roots tourism" is loosely defined as a type of tourism in which ethnic minorities visit their ancestral lands to discover ethnic roots and culture. Despite the recent popularity of this type of tourism, many gaps remain in the study of roots tourism, particularly about its influence on the tourists' identity. This exploratory study investigates the ways in which second and subsequent generations of Chinese Americans discuss their identity and fe…
Commodifying digital television in China
This study examines public discourse surrounding the development and deployment of digital television in China from 1999 to 2004. It analyzes print media constructions of this new media technology against the backdrop of controlled commodification and formation of trans-media groups that define media reform, development and management.The study reveals how these structural changes play a key role in restraining the development of a flexible busin…
Mobile, online and angry
This article examines the role and power of online media in representing an emerging culture of social activism and protests in both urban and rural China. It focuses on the discursive practices of China's citizenry in utilising the global dimensions of online media within a localised and situated context, to reflect upon, construct and transform social practices with Chinese characteristics. This article utilises a cross-case method to compare a…
Constructing the Meaning of Nanotechnology in the United States
This study employed a content analysis approach to consider the coverage of nanotechnology reports in the New York Times from 1985 to 2004. Patterns and trends of discourse within the national newspaper in terms of political, economic, social, cultural and technological factors were examined using a socio-linguistic approach. Results from the analysis of 243 news articles show a significant rise in the number of reports in general, with a specifi…
Media self-regulation in the Pacific Islands
Common concerns exist across the Pacific Islands' region over the quality of media reporting, absence of common media standards and enforcement mechanisms with regard to journalism ethics and implementation of increasingly tighter government regulations. This study surveyed working media professionals in the Pacific Islands on the feasibility of establishing a regional self-regulatory media system. It uses an internationally accepted analytical b…
Community development, bricolage, and celebrity-driven activism
Celebrity journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn launched Half the Sky, a book exploring the feasibility of mass-awareness and community-based campaigning platforms. The book, which created a grassroots feminist movement for women in the Global South, had broad cultural effects, with the publisher launching a 25th hardcopy print run within a year of its 2009 release. The Half the Sky movement lasted over a decade, maintaining momentum via…
Adapting, modifying and applying cinematography and editing concepts and techniques to cinematic virtual reality film production
Virtual reality (VR) filmmaking presents a unique cinematic experience requiring new and innovative ways to conceptualise and practice specific aspects of the production process. This article integrates a range of adapted and modified filmmaking thinking, approaches and components into the cinematic virtual reality (CVR) language and grammar in the two critical areas of cinematography and editing. This focus provides a range of possible strategie…
Consideration of student evaluations of teaching (SET) and learning
This paper explores institutional leaders’ perceptions of learning and teaching involved in facilitating and assessing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) survey instruments across Australian regional universities. It focuses on how they understand the function of SET, strategies used to mitigate bias, and potential residual harm. Through adopting a combination of inductive and deductive research processes and a thematic analysis through the et…
‘Now they’re going to find us on a map’
Local councils often struggle with how and when to insert novel urban planning ideas into local discourses and effect change from ‘above’. This article examines the pre-suasive communication strategies employed by the Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) to realign the city's planning horizons and branding, and to convince stakeholders that the Moreton Bay Region (MBR) should become a city. Support for the proposed changes was initially uncertain …
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · China (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Advertising (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social science (7 works)