John Macnamara
Biographic Data
| ID | 184411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Macnamara |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Macnamara |
| SIGNATURE | MACNAMARA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1387-3882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Evaluation of Communication Activities at the World Health Organization: A Learning Case Study for Scholarship and Practice
Strategic Communication and Public Policy: A Major Gap and Opportunity for Research, Practice, and Democracy
Human Research Ethics Review Challenges in the Social Sciences: A Case for Review
Ethical conduct is a maxim in scholarly research as well as scholarly endeavour generally. In the case of research involving humans, few if any question the necessity for ethics approval of procedures by ethics boards or committees. However, concerns have been raised about the appropriateness of ethics approval processes for social science research arguing that the orientation of ethics boards and committees to biomedical and experimental scienti…
The long now and liminality: Will we create communitas? A macro-social perspective of Covid-19
The ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed society are the source of widespread discussion. But references to a 'new normal' are mostly confined to hybrid working and a possible four-day working week. Should future-scoping remain so narrow, a major opportunity for fundamental rethinking will be lost. This commentary seeks to take up and expand the argument of a 2021 article on the effects of COVID-19 by exploring the wider social implica…
Journalism, Public Relations, and Spin
In a history of American journalism, W. Bleyer reported that even before World War I the “system of supplying newspapers with publicity and propaganda in the guise of news became so popular that a census of accredited press agents” was conducted by New York newspapers. The shift from traditional to social media is increasing in Public Relations (PR) practice as well as among journalists, along with the use of owned media for digital publishing. H…
A Review of New Evaluation Models for Strategic Communication: Progress and Gaps
After identification of “stasis” in evaluation of strategic communication including public relations and corporate communication despite intensive focus for more than 40 years, recent initiatives in measurement and evaluation on three continents highlight a number of important advances in theory and practice. Although studies have identified a lack of standards and a narrow focus on “activities” and “outputs” in traditional evaluation models and …
Expanding Evaluation to Progress Strategic Communication: Beyond Message Tracking to Open Listening
Management writer Tom Peters noted that what gets measured is what gets done in organizations. Therefore, measurement and evaluation models and approaches provide insights into strategy. Furthermore, the most widely used approaches to evaluation are based on program logic models that identify objectives, planning, and inputs, as well as seek to track outputs, outcomes and impact, thus affording insights into the origins of strategy and strategic …
The Work and ‘Architecture of Listening’: Addressing Gaps in Organization-Public Communication
Listening is extensively discussed in relation to interpersonal communication, in therapeutic contexts such as counselling and, to some extent, in the context of intra-organizational communication conducted as part of human resources management. However, listening is surprisingly and problematically overlooked in the large body of literature on organization-public communication including government, political, corporate, and marketing communicati…
E-Electioneering 2007-13: Trends in Online Political Campaigns over Three Elections
Following the 2004 US presidential election campaign, which was described as 'a critical turning point' in use of social media, and particularly the 2008 Obama campaign, there has been increasing focus on use of social media for political campaigning and what is termed e-electioneering and e-democracy. However, studies of election campaigns between 2010 and 2012 in a number of countries have identified what Steve Woolgar (2002) calls cyberbole in…
The construction of Australia Day: A Study of Public Relations as ‘New Cultural Intermediaries
Australia Day is a foremost expression of Australian culture and identity, but historical and critical analysis shows that, far from being an organic or spontaneous expression and celebration of identity and culture, Australia's national day has been ‘manufactured’ by what can be identified as ‘new cultural intermediaries’. Drawing on but reinterpreting and updating Pierre Bourdieu's concept to account for twenty-first century media and public co…
Social Media Communication in Organizations: The Challenges of Balancing Openness, Strategy, and Management
Organizations from government departments and corporations to small businesses are increasingly adopting social media for strategic corporate and organizational communication and public relations. This is seen by many as a positive development because the openness of the Web 2.0 environment potentially democratizes voice and affords participation, dialogue, and community-building. However, optimistic views of the benefits of organizational social…
Beyond voice: Audience-making and the work and architecture of listening as new media literacies
Considerable attention in communication, media and social science scholarship is focused on voice, which is considered as an important form of social capital and necessary for social equity. Studies have extensively examined access to communication technologies and various forums such as the public sphere, as well as media literacy required to have a voice. Despite continuing concern over a 'digital divide', the emergence of Web 2.0-based 'new me…
E-electoral Engagement: How Governments Use Social Media to Engage Voters
Governments worldwide are increasingly attempting to use the internet to engage citizens. After an initial focus on delivery of information and services via what technologists call Web 1.0, strategies referred to as 'Government 2.0' and e-democracy have turned attention to the use of interactive Web 2.0-based 'social media' to engage citizens in consultation and participation to redress a concerning 'democratic deficit' and reinvigorate the publi…
Massaging the Media: Australia Day and the Emergence of Public Relations
The status of Australia Day has long generated mixed responses - from patriotic flag-waving, to apathy, to outright hostility. Proponents of 26 January consequently have engaged in various public relations activities in order to promote Australia Day and to establish its credentials as the national day. From the early nineteenth century through to the present, local media outlets have had a dynamic relationship with Australia Day. Yet while they …
E-Electioneering 2010: Trends in Social Media Use in Australian Political Communication
In the wake of the 'turning point' 2004 US presidential election, the Obama campaign of 2008, the 2010 UK election and e-democracy movements globally, Australians went to the polls in 2010 in a media-hyped flurry of tweeting, YouTube videos, Facebook befriending and 'liking', blogging and other social media activities. Following a study showing that the 2007 Australian election was not a 'YouTube election', as claimed by many media and commentato…
The 21st Century Media (R)evolution
The Quadrivium of Online Public Consultation: Policy, Culture, Resources, Technology
Jim MacnamaraaJim Macnamara is Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. This research was undertaken in conjunction with Vicki Bamford and Judith Betts, with the support of a special project grant from the University of Technology Sydney. a University of Technology Sydney
Remodelling Media: The Urgent Search for New Media Business Models
One of the most contentious and pressing issues concerning media in the early twenty-first century is identifying viable business models, with widespread reports that twentieth-century business models underpinning press, radio and television are collapsing because of 'audience fragmentation' driven by an ever-widening range of choice in media content and sources on the internet. Some scholars, media proprietors and content producers see announcem…
Internet Media and the Public Sphere: The 2007 Australian E-Electioneering Experience
Internet media have come under increasing examination since the early 1990s within a number of theoretical frameworks, including their use and potential influence in the public sphere of political discourse. Increasing use of internet media was identified in the 2000 and 2004 US presidential elections, with the latter being described as 'a critical turning point'. However, the development of what some call 'new media' or 'social media' based on W…
Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men
This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the se
Resolving apparent contradictions: Adults' and preschoolers' ability to cope with non-classical negation
If the logic of natural language negation were classical – a simple matter of true and false – then it would be a disaster to answer a question like Is this essay good? with Yes and no . The overwhelming majority of adults ( N = 40) asked to resolve this apparent contradiction were found to do so by appealing to the structure of the essay (e.g. Its thesis was good but its argument was not ). Three-year-olds ( N = 24), when suitably prepared, also…
Brentano's Influence on Ehrenfels's Theory of Perceptual Gestalts
The Logical foundations of cognition
Logic and Cognition
The received position in logic and cognition is that the two subjects have little or nothing to do with one another. This position, adopted at the tum of the last century, is the result of two events. One was the divorce between philosophy and psychology. In the settlement after the divorce, logic, specifying standards of correct inference, went to philosophy, whereas to psychology went what were viewed as the facts of mental life. We can express…
Cognitive Psychology and the Rejection of Brentano
Cognitive basis of language learning in infants
1984). Cognitive Basis Of Language Learning In Infants. Journal of Visual Verbal Languaging: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 43-53
The Bilingual's Linguistic Performance—A Psychological Overview
Social Media Communication in Organizations: The Challenges of Balancing Openness, Strategy, and Management
Organizations from government departments and corporations to small businesses are increasingly adopting social media for strategic corporate and organizational communication and public relations. This is seen by many as a positive development because the openness of the Web 2.0 environment potentially democratizes voice and affords participation, dialogue, and community-building. However, optimistic views of the benefits of organizational social…
Beyond voice: Audience-making and the work and architecture of listening as new media literacies
Considerable attention in communication, media and social science scholarship is focused on voice, which is considered as an important form of social capital and necessary for social equity. Studies have extensively examined access to communication technologies and various forums such as the public sphere, as well as media literacy required to have a voice. Despite continuing concern over a 'digital divide', the emergence of Web 2.0-based 'new me…
E-electoral Engagement: How Governments Use Social Media to Engage Voters
Governments worldwide are increasingly attempting to use the internet to engage citizens. After an initial focus on delivery of information and services via what technologists call Web 1.0, strategies referred to as 'Government 2.0' and e-democracy have turned attention to the use of interactive Web 2.0-based 'social media' to engage citizens in consultation and participation to redress a concerning 'democratic deficit' and reinvigorate the publi…
Remodelling Media: The Urgent Search for New Media Business Models
One of the most contentious and pressing issues concerning media in the early twenty-first century is identifying viable business models, with widespread reports that twentieth-century business models underpinning press, radio and television are collapsing because of 'audience fragmentation' driven by an ever-widening range of choice in media content and sources on the internet. Some scholars, media proprietors and content producers see announcem…
Problems of bilingualism
Expanding Evaluation to Progress Strategic Communication: Beyond Message Tracking to Open Listening
Management writer Tom Peters noted that what gets measured is what gets done in organizations. Therefore, measurement and evaluation models and approaches provide insights into strategy. Furthermore, the most widely used approaches to evaluation are based on program logic models that identify objectives, planning, and inputs, as well as seek to track outputs, outcomes and impact, thus affording insights into the origins of strategy and strategic …
E-Electioneering 2010: Trends in Social Media Use in Australian Political Communication
In the wake of the 'turning point' 2004 US presidential election, the Obama campaign of 2008, the 2010 UK election and e-democracy movements globally, Australians went to the polls in 2010 in a media-hyped flurry of tweeting, YouTube videos, Facebook befriending and 'liking', blogging and other social media activities. Following a study showing that the 2007 Australian election was not a 'YouTube election', as claimed by many media and commentato…
The Quadrivium of Online Public Consultation: Policy, Culture, Resources, Technology
Jim MacnamaraaJim Macnamara is Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. This research was undertaken in conjunction with Vicki Bamford and Judith Betts, with the support of a special project grant from the University of Technology Sydney. a University of Technology Sydney
The Effects of Instruction in a Weaker Language
The Work and ‘Architecture of Listening’: Addressing Gaps in Organization-Public Communication
Listening is extensively discussed in relation to interpersonal communication, in therapeutic contexts such as counselling and, to some extent, in the context of intra-organizational communication conducted as part of human resources management. However, listening is surprisingly and problematically overlooked in the large body of literature on organization-public communication including government, political, corporate, and marketing communicati…
The construction of Australia Day: A Study of Public Relations as ‘New Cultural Intermediaries
Australia Day is a foremost expression of Australian culture and identity, but historical and critical analysis shows that, far from being an organic or spontaneous expression and celebration of identity and culture, Australia's national day has been ‘manufactured’ by what can be identified as ‘new cultural intermediaries’. Drawing on but reinterpreting and updating Pierre Bourdieu's concept to account for twenty-first century media and public co…
The 21st Century Media (R)evolution
Internet Media and the Public Sphere: The 2007 Australian E-Electioneering Experience
Internet media have come under increasing examination since the early 1990s within a number of theoretical frameworks, including their use and potential influence in the public sphere of political discourse. Increasing use of internet media was identified in the 2000 and 2004 US presidential elections, with the latter being described as 'a critical turning point'. However, the development of what some call 'new media' or 'social media' based on W…
Family correlates of verbal reasoning ability
Parsimony and the Lexicon
Two systems which attempt to describe the structure of the English lexicon have been presented by Katz, Fodor, and Postal (hereafter KFP) and by Quillian. It is argued that the KFP model fails because it mistakenly aims at parsimonious storage of information in the lexicon, and that Quillian's fails because it carries insufficient information and places inadequate limits on the recall of information. What is needed, then, is a lexicon which provi…
Comparative Studies of Reading and Problem Solving in Two Languages
The paper will attempt to answer three questions. First, what is meant by of and is it possible to find evidence that in reading a person has a better grasp of one language than of another? Apart from such obvious differences as knowledge (or ignorance) of vocabulary, idiom, and syntax, in what ways does a person's reading in his weak language differ from his reading in his strong one? Second, what effects do such differences in grasp of language…
Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men
This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the se
Human Research Ethics Review Challenges in the Social Sciences: A Case for Review
Ethical conduct is a maxim in scholarly research as well as scholarly endeavour generally. In the case of research involving humans, few if any question the necessity for ethics approval of procedures by ethics boards or committees. However, concerns have been raised about the appropriateness of ethics approval processes for social science research arguing that the orientation of ethics boards and committees to biomedical and experimental scienti…
The long now and liminality: Will we create communitas? A macro-social perspective of Covid-19
The ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed society are the source of widespread discussion. But references to a 'new normal' are mostly confined to hybrid working and a possible four-day working week. Should future-scoping remain so narrow, a major opportunity for fundamental rethinking will be lost. This commentary seeks to take up and expand the argument of a 2021 article on the effects of COVID-19 by exploring the wider social implica…
E-Electioneering 2007-13: Trends in Online Political Campaigns over Three Elections
Following the 2004 US presidential election campaign, which was described as 'a critical turning point' in use of social media, and particularly the 2008 Obama campaign, there has been increasing focus on use of social media for political campaigning and what is termed e-electioneering and e-democracy. However, studies of election campaigns between 2010 and 2012 in a number of countries have identified what Steve Woolgar (2002) calls cyberbole in…
The Development of Moral Reasoning and the Foundations of Geometry
The Structure of the English Lexicon the Simplest Hypothesis
The following hypotheses were tested: (1) that the several meanings of a single word are stored and recalled for use in a fixed order; (2) that persons agree in the order; (3) that for each person the order remains constant over time; (4) that the order observed in subjects agrees with that available from semantic frequency counts; (5) that the order in which adults recall meanings is the order in which they learned them. The data support these h…
Zero Error and Practice Effects in Moray House English Quotients
S ummary . Ninety‐six children in two Dublin primary schools were each set six tests of the Moray House English Test series. The purpose of the experiment was twofold: ( a ) to discover whether Moray House English Tests vary in difficulty level and to measure the variation, or zero error, if it exists; ( b ) to measure the extent to which Moray House English Quotients are influenced by practice. The particular interest of making measurement ( b )…
Problems of bilingualism
Zero Error and Practice Effects in Moray House English Quotients
S ummary . Ninety‐six children in two Dublin primary schools were each set six tests of the Moray House English Test series. The purpose of the experiment was twofold: ( a ) to discover whether Moray House English Tests vary in difficulty level and to measure the variation, or zero error, if it exists; ( b ) to measure the extent to which Moray House English Quotients are influenced by practice. The particular interest of making measurement ( b )…
The Bilingual's Linguistic Performance—A Psychological Overview
The Effects of Instruction in a Weaker Language
Bilingualism and Primary Education: A Study of Irish Experience
Bilingualism and Primary Education: A Study of Irish Experience
Comparative Studies of Reading and Problem Solving in Two Languages
The paper will attempt to answer three questions. First, what is meant by of and is it possible to find evidence that in reading a person has a better grasp of one language than of another? Apart from such obvious differences as knowledge (or ignorance) of vocabulary, idiom, and syntax, in what ways does a person's reading in his weak language differ from his reading in his strong one? Second, what effects do such differences in grasp of language…
Meaning and the structure of language
Parsimony and the Lexicon
Two systems which attempt to describe the structure of the English lexicon have been presented by Katz, Fodor, and Postal (hereafter KFP) and by Quillian. It is argued that the KFP model fails because it mistakenly aims at parsimonious storage of information in the lexicon, and that Quillian's fails because it carries insufficient information and places inadequate limits on the recall of information. What is needed, then, is a lexicon which provi…
The Structure of the English Lexicon the Simplest Hypothesis
The following hypotheses were tested: (1) that the several meanings of a single word are stored and recalled for use in a fixed order; (2) that persons agree in the order; (3) that for each person the order remains constant over time; (4) that the order observed in subjects agrees with that available from semantic frequency counts; (5) that the order in which adults recall meanings is the order in which they learned them. The data support these h…
Family correlates of verbal reasoning ability
Cognitive basis of language learning in infants
1984). Cognitive Basis Of Language Learning In Infants. Journal of Visual Verbal Languaging: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 43-53
What's in a Name? A Study of How Children Learn Common and Proper Names
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Names for Things: A Study in Human Learning
Four chapters in the book's first section, Matters Mainly Psychological, describe empirical observations that explore how a child copes with the fact that many different name-like words can be applied to a single object.A second major section, Matters Mainly Linguistic, contains chapters on phonology, the learning of grammatical categories, the definite and indefinite articles, and the plural. A third section, Matters Mainly Philosophical, focuse…
A border dispute: The Place of Logic in Psychology
xv, 212 pages ; 24 cm
The Development of Moral Reasoning and the Foundations of Geometry
Understanding Induction
The paper offers a new understanding of induction in the empirical sciences, one which assimilates it to induction in geometry rather than to statistical inference. To make the point a system of notions, essential to logically sound induction, is defined. Notable among them are arbitrary object and particular property. A second aim of the paper is to bring to light a largely neglected set of assumptions shared by both induction and deduction in t…
Cognitive Psychology and the Rejection of Brentano
The Logical foundations of cognition
Logic and Cognition
The received position in logic and cognition is that the two subjects have little or nothing to do with one another. This position, adopted at the tum of the last century, is the result of two events. One was the divorce between philosophy and psychology. In the settlement after the divorce, logic, specifying standards of correct inference, went to philosophy, whereas to psychology went what were viewed as the facts of mental life. We can express…
Brentano's Influence on Ehrenfels's Theory of Perceptual Gestalts
Resolving apparent contradictions: Adults' and preschoolers' ability to cope with non-classical negation
If the logic of natural language negation were classical – a simple matter of true and false – then it would be a disaster to answer a question like Is this essay good? with Yes and no . The overwhelming majority of adults ( N = 40) asked to resolve this apparent contradiction were found to do so by appealing to the structure of the essay (e.g. Its thesis was good but its argument was not ). Three-year-olds ( N = 24), when suitably prepared, also…
Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men
This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the se
Internet Media and the Public Sphere: The 2007 Australian E-Electioneering Experience
Internet media have come under increasing examination since the early 1990s within a number of theoretical frameworks, including their use and potential influence in the public sphere of political discourse. Increasing use of internet media was identified in the 2000 and 2004 US presidential elections, with the latter being described as 'a critical turning point'. However, the development of what some call 'new media' or 'social media' based on W…
Psychology (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Media Studies and Communication (13 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works)