J D Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 21264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J D Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J D |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4840-4998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards an ethical reportage of digital hostility against women: A conceptual analysis
This article asks: ‘What might an ethical journalistic reportage on digital hostility directed against women look like?’ While there is growing scholarship on the online hostility that women (including women journalists) experience, that there is relatively little scholarship on how this is depicted in journalistic reportage, and the processes that journalists follow when producing this reportage. The article seeks to address this research gap by…
Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care
Evidence suggests that the rate of reporting abuse, harassment and problematic content to platforms is substantially low. This article assesses the extent to which platform interfaces may contribute to discouraging the use of reporting as a remedy to online harms. Using a walkthrough method, we analyse reporting interfaces for the extent to which they may contribute to a lack of trust in reporting. The study found that reporting interfaces (1) di…
The platforming is the point: News media, ‘the oxygen of amplification’, and interviewing the far-right
This paper critically interrogates the role of news media in mainstreaming, normalizing and amplifying contemporary far-right political actors, parties, and movements in the twenty-first century. Through a critical interdisciplinary literature review and two qualitative case studies of high-profile media interviews with former Trump administration strategist Steve Bannon and leading Trump-supporting politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, this paper e…
Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser . By Nicholas Attfield
Representing Online Hostility against Women: Ethics and Wellbeing
On 6 March 2023, the Australian journalist Lisa Millar appeared on the television programme ABC News Breakfast (of which she is a host) wearing a skirt with a thigh-exposing slit. Photographs of this appearance were circulated on Twitter alongside misogynist commentary about the choice of attire. Millar addressed this commentary on air, admonishing not only those who posted it but also the media outlets where it was republished. This article uses…
Body of evidence: Conspiracy, masculinity and otherness in ‘QAnon shaman’ meme discourses
This article addresses a selection of 43 memes featuring the ‘QAnon shaman’, the alter-ego of actor Jake Angeli and a high-profile participant in the January 2021 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in Washington D.C. Through a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and Integrative Framing Analysis, the article asks: ‘How do the QAnon shaman memes represent Angeli as a body of evidence about conspiracy movements such as QAnon, and what might be the ramifi…
Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise
This article asks: 'To what extent can health professional influencers function as health pedagogues, educating their audiences and protecting public health in an era of digital misinformation?' The article teases out that question by applying Content Analysis and Framing Analysis to a selection of TikTok and Instagram posts by Dr Michael Mrozinski, a Scottish general practitioner who is based in Australia. The posts seek to debunk online misinfo…
Digital hostility, internet pile-ons and shaming: A case study
Digital hostility poses a grave risk to the health and wellbeing of its targets. This study addresses digital hostility levelled at public figures, and does so through the case study of Wilson Gavin. Gavin had cultivated a minor public profile in Australia through his conservative activism. In January 2020, after protesting at a drag storytelling event in Brisbane, Gavin was subject to significant online abuse; a day after the protest, he died by…
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community
QAnon is an online conspiracy movement centred on cryptic posts published by an unknown figure referred to as “Q.” Its anti-hierarchical framework and deployment of an unknown leader can be understood as a substantial departure from other 21st-century populisms that are sustained by the celebrity relationship between a leader (often aspiring to or gaining political office) and its followers (constituted in community through consumption of the lea…
Fake News in Digital Cultures: Technology, Populism and Digital Misinformation
Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking
For the past half-decade, disinformation and misinformation have been discussed in the public sphere as the construct ‘fake news’, through a discourse of crisis and, increasingly, in terms of responses, remedies, solutions, interventions and preventative affordances. This article explores the emergence of the crisis–remedy discourse of disinformation, arguing that responsiveness is grounded in a solutionism that positions ‘fake news’ as crisis. D…
Freedom of speech is not freedom from ethics: The 2019 Israel Folau media controversy as a case study
This article examines how freedom of speech is framed in the media controversy surrounding the Australian rugby player Israel Folau's April 2019 Instagram post. A content analysis and framing analysis of newspaper reportage reveals that the controversy has been largely discussed in terms of whether or not Folau's speech was being curtailed and whether this curtailing indicates a broader, ideologically motivated censoriousness. This discussion is …
Reel Men: Australian Masculinity in the Movies, 1949–1962
Reel Men: Australian Masculinity in the Movies, 1949–1962." Australian Historical Studies, 51(1), pp. 100–101
Predatory schools and student non-lives: A discourse analysis of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia controversy
This article addresses the controversy surrounding the Safe Schools Coalition Australia. Certain politicians and media commentators have accused the initiative of harming the students it ostensibly aims to benefit. Those accusations have, in turn, been labelled ‘homophobic’ by supporters of the Coalition. This article suggests that the term homophobic does not adequately describe or explain the visceral hostility of anti-Safe Schools discourses. …
Home-wrecking whore”: Barnaby Joyce, Vikki Campion, journalism, and the gender politics of the media sex scandal
This paper addresses journalistic coverage of Australian politician Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital relationship with his one time employee, Vikki Campion. The paper suggests that it is productive to examine this coverage as constituting a media sex scandal. Media sex scandals are useful in terms of what they suggest about the gender politics of the society in which they unfold. The Joyce-Campion scandal is revealing because it suggests how the sing…
The Country of Sexualised Children: Whiteness, Innocence, and the “Sexualisation of Childhood”
This article argues that the sexualisation of childhood discourses have a distinct history in Australia. To advance this argument, I will explore the similarities between these discourses and discourses surrounding the iconic Australian “lost child”. In all of these discourses, a white child (here a symbol of White Australia’s future and past) becomes lost in an unforgiving and dangerous environment. This child is assumed to be asexual, though wi…
Haunting sex? Capitalism as spectre in the Australian anti-‘sexualization of childhood’ rhetoric
This article explores the anti-‘sexualization of childhood’ rhetoric that has circulated in Australia since the publication of the Corporate Paedophilia report in 2006. I argue that this rhetoric is striking because of how it appears to have moved away from the ostensibly feminist and anti-capitalist stance taken by Corporate Paedophilia, and been advanced by Right-leaning critics (as evidenced by the Safe Schools Coalition Australia controversy …
Invisible and everywhere: Heterosexuality in anti-pornography feminism
This article investigates the various (and curiously under-theorised) ways in which heterosexuality is framed in anti-pornography feminist discourses. I argue that within these discourses, a certain model of patriarchal heterosexuality is understood as providing the basic framework for all material classified as ‘pornography’, even that which is produced by and for queers. At the same time, though, the term ‘heterosexuality’ rarely appears within…
Is the trouble in My Place the same as The Trouble with Merle
This article addresses Sally Morgan's My Place (1987) and Maree Delofski's The Trouble with Merle (2002). A key similarity between these texts is a confusion surrounding the racial identities of their female protagonists. In Morgan's book, the narrator discovers that she is Aboriginal, and not (as she had been led to believe) Indian. The subject of Delofski's documentary is the vintage Hollywood film star Merle Oberon. Oberon claimed to be born i…
Approaches to organizational design
Some Experiences with the Group Interview
Journal Article Some Experiences with the Group Interview Get access James D. Thompson, James D. Thompson University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar N. J. Demerath N. J. Demerath University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 31, Issue 2, December 1952, Pages 148–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573399 Published: 01…
Approaches to organizational design
Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise
This article asks: 'To what extent can health professional influencers function as health pedagogues, educating their audiences and protecting public health in an era of digital misinformation?' The article teases out that question by applying Content Analysis and Framing Analysis to a selection of TikTok and Instagram posts by Dr Michael Mrozinski, a Scottish general practitioner who is based in Australia. The posts seek to debunk online misinfo…
Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care
Evidence suggests that the rate of reporting abuse, harassment and problematic content to platforms is substantially low. This article assesses the extent to which platform interfaces may contribute to discouraging the use of reporting as a remedy to online harms. Using a walkthrough method, we analyse reporting interfaces for the extent to which they may contribute to a lack of trust in reporting. The study found that reporting interfaces (1) di…
Home-wrecking whore”: Barnaby Joyce, Vikki Campion, journalism, and the gender politics of the media sex scandal
This paper addresses journalistic coverage of Australian politician Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital relationship with his one time employee, Vikki Campion. The paper suggests that it is productive to examine this coverage as constituting a media sex scandal. Media sex scandals are useful in terms of what they suggest about the gender politics of the society in which they unfold. The Joyce-Campion scandal is revealing because it suggests how the sing…
The Country of Sexualised Children: Whiteness, Innocence, and the “Sexualisation of Childhood”
This article argues that the sexualisation of childhood discourses have a distinct history in Australia. To advance this argument, I will explore the similarities between these discourses and discourses surrounding the iconic Australian “lost child”. In all of these discourses, a white child (here a symbol of White Australia’s future and past) becomes lost in an unforgiving and dangerous environment. This child is assumed to be asexual, though wi…
Some Experiences with the Group Interview
Journal Article Some Experiences with the Group Interview Get access James D. Thompson, James D. Thompson University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar N. J. Demerath N. J. Demerath University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 31, Issue 2, December 1952, Pages 148–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573399 Published: 01…
Approaches to organizational design
Is the trouble in My Place the same as The Trouble with Merle
This article addresses Sally Morgan's My Place (1987) and Maree Delofski's The Trouble with Merle (2002). A key similarity between these texts is a confusion surrounding the racial identities of their female protagonists. In Morgan's book, the narrator discovers that she is Aboriginal, and not (as she had been led to believe) Indian. The subject of Delofski's documentary is the vintage Hollywood film star Merle Oberon. Oberon claimed to be born i…
Invisible and everywhere: Heterosexuality in anti-pornography feminism
This article investigates the various (and curiously under-theorised) ways in which heterosexuality is framed in anti-pornography feminist discourses. I argue that within these discourses, a certain model of patriarchal heterosexuality is understood as providing the basic framework for all material classified as ‘pornography’, even that which is produced by and for queers. At the same time, though, the term ‘heterosexuality’ rarely appears within…
The Country of Sexualised Children: Whiteness, Innocence, and the “Sexualisation of Childhood”
This article argues that the sexualisation of childhood discourses have a distinct history in Australia. To advance this argument, I will explore the similarities between these discourses and discourses surrounding the iconic Australian “lost child”. In all of these discourses, a white child (here a symbol of White Australia’s future and past) becomes lost in an unforgiving and dangerous environment. This child is assumed to be asexual, though wi…
Haunting sex? Capitalism as spectre in the Australian anti-‘sexualization of childhood’ rhetoric
This article explores the anti-‘sexualization of childhood’ rhetoric that has circulated in Australia since the publication of the Corporate Paedophilia report in 2006. I argue that this rhetoric is striking because of how it appears to have moved away from the ostensibly feminist and anti-capitalist stance taken by Corporate Paedophilia, and been advanced by Right-leaning critics (as evidenced by the Safe Schools Coalition Australia controversy …
Predatory schools and student non-lives: A discourse analysis of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia controversy
This article addresses the controversy surrounding the Safe Schools Coalition Australia. Certain politicians and media commentators have accused the initiative of harming the students it ostensibly aims to benefit. Those accusations have, in turn, been labelled ‘homophobic’ by supporters of the Coalition. This article suggests that the term homophobic does not adequately describe or explain the visceral hostility of anti-Safe Schools discourses. …
Home-wrecking whore”: Barnaby Joyce, Vikki Campion, journalism, and the gender politics of the media sex scandal
This paper addresses journalistic coverage of Australian politician Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital relationship with his one time employee, Vikki Campion. The paper suggests that it is productive to examine this coverage as constituting a media sex scandal. Media sex scandals are useful in terms of what they suggest about the gender politics of the society in which they unfold. The Joyce-Campion scandal is revealing because it suggests how the sing…
Reel Men: Australian Masculinity in the Movies, 1949–1962
Reel Men: Australian Masculinity in the Movies, 1949–1962." Australian Historical Studies, 51(1), pp. 100–101
Freedom of speech is not freedom from ethics: The 2019 Israel Folau media controversy as a case study
This article examines how freedom of speech is framed in the media controversy surrounding the Australian rugby player Israel Folau's April 2019 Instagram post. A content analysis and framing analysis of newspaper reportage reveals that the controversy has been largely discussed in terms of whether or not Folau's speech was being curtailed and whether this curtailing indicates a broader, ideologically motivated censoriousness. This discussion is …
Digital hostility, internet pile-ons and shaming: A case study
Digital hostility poses a grave risk to the health and wellbeing of its targets. This study addresses digital hostility levelled at public figures, and does so through the case study of Wilson Gavin. Gavin had cultivated a minor public profile in Australia through his conservative activism. In January 2020, after protesting at a drag storytelling event in Brisbane, Gavin was subject to significant online abuse; a day after the protest, he died by…
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community
QAnon is an online conspiracy movement centred on cryptic posts published by an unknown figure referred to as “Q.” Its anti-hierarchical framework and deployment of an unknown leader can be understood as a substantial departure from other 21st-century populisms that are sustained by the celebrity relationship between a leader (often aspiring to or gaining political office) and its followers (constituted in community through consumption of the lea…
Fake News in Digital Cultures: Technology, Populism and Digital Misinformation
Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking
For the past half-decade, disinformation and misinformation have been discussed in the public sphere as the construct ‘fake news’, through a discourse of crisis and, increasingly, in terms of responses, remedies, solutions, interventions and preventative affordances. This article explores the emergence of the crisis–remedy discourse of disinformation, arguing that responsiveness is grounded in a solutionism that positions ‘fake news’ as crisis. D…
Representing Online Hostility against Women: Ethics and Wellbeing
On 6 March 2023, the Australian journalist Lisa Millar appeared on the television programme ABC News Breakfast (of which she is a host) wearing a skirt with a thigh-exposing slit. Photographs of this appearance were circulated on Twitter alongside misogynist commentary about the choice of attire. Millar addressed this commentary on air, admonishing not only those who posted it but also the media outlets where it was republished. This article uses…
Body of evidence: Conspiracy, masculinity and otherness in ‘QAnon shaman’ meme discourses
This article addresses a selection of 43 memes featuring the ‘QAnon shaman’, the alter-ego of actor Jake Angeli and a high-profile participant in the January 2021 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in Washington D.C. Through a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and Integrative Framing Analysis, the article asks: ‘How do the QAnon shaman memes represent Angeli as a body of evidence about conspiracy movements such as QAnon, and what might be the ramifi…
Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise
This article asks: 'To what extent can health professional influencers function as health pedagogues, educating their audiences and protecting public health in an era of digital misinformation?' The article teases out that question by applying Content Analysis and Framing Analysis to a selection of TikTok and Instagram posts by Dr Michael Mrozinski, a Scottish general practitioner who is based in Australia. The posts seek to debunk online misinfo…
The platforming is the point: News media, ‘the oxygen of amplification’, and interviewing the far-right
This paper critically interrogates the role of news media in mainstreaming, normalizing and amplifying contemporary far-right political actors, parties, and movements in the twenty-first century. Through a critical interdisciplinary literature review and two qualitative case studies of high-profile media interviews with former Trump administration strategist Steve Bannon and leading Trump-supporting politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, this paper e…
Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser . By Nicholas Attfield
Towards an ethical reportage of digital hostility against women: A conceptual analysis
This article asks: ‘What might an ethical journalistic reportage on digital hostility directed against women look like?’ While there is growing scholarship on the online hostility that women (including women journalists) experience, that there is relatively little scholarship on how this is depicted in journalistic reportage, and the processes that journalists follow when producing this reportage. The article seeks to address this research gap by…
Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care
Evidence suggests that the rate of reporting abuse, harassment and problematic content to platforms is substantially low. This article assesses the extent to which platform interfaces may contribute to discouraging the use of reporting as a remedy to online harms. Using a walkthrough method, we analyse reporting interfaces for the extent to which they may contribute to a lack of trust in reporting. The study found that reporting interfaces (1) di…
Sociology (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)