Timothy Marjoribanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 275709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Marjoribanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Marjoribanks |
| SIGNATURE | MARJORIBANKS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1397-4106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social Licence to Operate: The Contextual Role of Culture and the Dominance of Attitudinal and Regulatory Factors in New Wind Energy Installation
This study investigated the factors influencing the social licence to operate (SLO) for new wind-farm installations, focusing on the roles of community attitudes, regulatory environment and local cultural values and beliefs. Using survey data collected from 226 community members across Australia, multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to examine how these factors influence community acceptance of wind energy development. The findings r…
Bushfire public inquiries: From recommendations to hybrid emergency management arrangements
Victoria, Australia consistently experiences significant bushfires. This article examines the ways in which public inquiry recommendations after major bushfires in Victoria have played an important role in shifting the emphasis of emergency management organisations (EMOs) from bushfire response to bushfire preparedness through hybrid emergency management arrangements. Based on a qualitative analysis of Victorian public inquiry bushfire reports fr…
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy
For the past two decades, understandings of the scale of digital disruption in journalism work in post-industrialised countries have relied on data about newspaper closures, newsroom job losses and the creation of new full-time jobs in journalism. Yet, the digital economy has fostered new employment and work arrangements, and there is less secure employment in journalism, making it more difficult to define who is a journalist now. Using a case st…
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma
Media in the News: How Australia’s Media Beat Covered Two Major Journalism Change Events
As the primary mechanism through which journalistic labour is organized within a newsroom, news beats are an important feature of journalistic research. However, within the extensive research that examines beat reporting and its specialties, there is little that examines how the media covers itself—or the media beat. This study explores the media beat in Australia, examining how media covered two major media change events: the loss of jobs at new…
Mobilising networks after redundancy: The experiences of Australian journalists
Redundancy and job loss in a context of precarity have become central to the experiences of journalists globally over the last decade. Previous research has identified the importance of networks to job seeking in these contexts. This article analyses responses of 225 journalists in Australia whose positions were made redundant between 2012 and 2014 to questions about their ongoing connections with former colleagues in a survey conducted four time…
Football, Media, and Homophobia: Public Framing of the First Pride Game in the Australian Football League
Two Australian football clubs—St Kilda and the Sydney Swans—played the first Pride Game in Australian professional sport in 2016 to support and include the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) community at and through a major sporting event. This study examines the framing of this game in the print and online media and in public responses via comments on media coverage and comments on Facebook posts. The framing of bo…
I’m Not a Vet!” Marginalisation and Practices of Resistance to Ageing by Women Hockey Players
Participation in team sports constitutes both a site for perpetuating discriminatory cultural perceptions of ageing women as well as a means of resisting and challenging such perceptions. Using Markula’s framework of Foucauldian feminism, we examine the marginalisation of women who play hockey in Australia and their acts of resistance against discriminatory processes related to ageing. This analysis draws on an ethnographic study of an Australian…
Sustainability for ecotourism: Work identity and role of community capacity building
This research sheds light on community organisations and how they can shape the landscape for ecotourism sustainability. It identifies work identity attributes that involve pro-environmental behaviours for achieving institutional challenges to meet sustainability for ecotourism goals. First, a framework on managing community organisations and its impact is proposed and empirically tested, which includes theoretical perspectives of work identity a…
Hockey becomes like a family in itself: Re-examining social capital through women's experiences of a sport club undergoing quasi-professionalisation
The community-based sports club is often recognised as a key site for the development of social capital. Intergenerational ties and connections to place can generate a strong sense of identity and can foster practices of psychological and material support. In this sense, community sports clubs can also be seen as an extension of the family. We examine social capital and Ray Pahl's 'personal communities' through an ethnographic study of women hock…
Australian media and the politics of belonging
'Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging' addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia, which will be of interest to both students and researchers concerned with developing a greater understanding of issues of belonging, and to a broader and general readership concerned with engaging with this key area of national and international interest.
Access, agenda building and information subsidies: Media relations in professional sport
While much research has examined the composition of sport media and those charged with constructing it, namely sport journalists and editors, far less has explored an essential set of actors in the construction of news: sources. This study aimed to explore the construction of the sport media agenda from arguably the most important sport news sources: sport media relations managers. In particular, this paper asked: how do media staff in sports org…
Rupert Murdoch. A Reassessment
Rupert Murdoch. A Reassessment . By Rodney Tiffen (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2014), pp.ix + 374. AU$34.99 (pb)
Media and the politics of belonging: Sudanese Australians, letters to the editor and the new integrationism
Nolan, Burgin, Farquharson and Marjoribanks focus on media as a significant site through which a politics of belonging is played out, focusing particularly on coverage of Sudanese Australians. To this end, they analyse letters to the editor that concern Sudanese Australians in three Victorian newspapers in 2007, a highly significant year in which this group became the focus of significant levels of (predominantly negative) media coverage. Through…
Sport and Social Inequalities
This article reviews recent research on the relationship between sport and social inequalities, focusing on gender, race, nation and social mobility. Through an engagement with these areas of research, we highlight how sport reflects and reinforces broader hierarchical structures; how it serves as a site for both inclusion and exclusion, but in ways that work unevenly; and how sport is ultimately a site for social reproduction of hierarchy and so…
Democracy, Media and Law in Malaysia and Singapore: A Space for Speech
Introduction: Making Spaces for Speech Amanda Whiting, Andrew Kenyon, Tim Marjoribanks, with Naomita Royan 1. Media Governmentality in Singapore Terence Lee 2. Why Singapore Journalists don't Press for Legal Reform Cherian George 3. Malaysiakini's Citizen Journalists: Navigating Local and National Identities Online Janet Steele 4. Seeking Democracy in Malaysia: New Media, Traditional Media and the State Mustafa K. Anuar 5. Defaming Politicians, S…
Sport and Society in the Global Age
Modern professional sport is a key site of social action. This book focuses on the interactions of sport and society, and engages with the political, policy and organisational aspects of such interactions. With a clever structure that takes in turn issues of process, regulation and culture, this is a unique introduction to the sociology of sport
The internet: An introduction to new media
Lelia Green, Berg, Oxford, 2010, 224 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84788 299 8; $99.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84788 298 1 Innovations in the development, implementation and usage of informati
Mediated Multiculturalism: Newspaper Representations of Sudanese Migrants in Australia
While multiculturalism has been central to the Australian political and social landscape since the 1970s, it has been recently challenged, with the (re)emergence of discourses of ‘social cohesion’ and ‘integration’. In this paper, we engage with these contests by focusing on newspaper coverage of Sudanese Australians around the time of the 2007 Federal Election. We ask: how did the Australian print media represent Sudanese people during this peri…
News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change
Public Editors” and Media Governance at the Guardian and the New York Times
This paper examines the columns of Ian Mayes, the first Readers' Editor of The Guardian, and of Daniel Okrent, the first Public Editor of The New York Times, to provide an empirically grounded and theoretically informed analysis of the emergent role of newspaper public editors. To do this, the paper positions the emergence of public editors as part of a wider trend towards the adoption of mechanisms of media accountability, and engages with acade…
Newswork
The Future of “Responsible Journalism”: Defamation law, public debate and news production
If the future of newspapers includes online and transnational platforms, the influence of defamation law on journalism deserves close investigation. A key concern for international publishers remains being sued in defamation in the United Kingdom or in other countries following its legal tradition. However, UK law has developed in recent years so that it now protects “responsible journalism” and many other commonwealth countries have seen similar…
Economy and society: The enduring residualism of Australian sociology
Australian sociologists have barely engaged with the resurgence of economic sociology in the USA and Europe. It might be argued that this lack of engagement arises from a robust local agenda, immune from metropolitan fashions. This article argues that this is not the case. Rather, it arises from the enduring residualism of Australian sociology vis-a-vis economics. In turn, this residualism is grounded in sociology's late beginnings in Australia, …
Representing Australia: Race, the media and cricket
Sport and representations of sport in the media are key sites for political and social struggles around race and nation. In order to explore how meanings of race are constructed in a sporting context, we undertook a discourse analysis of Australian print media coverage of two incidents of alleged racial vilification in sport. In one, Australian cricketer Darren Lehmann was suspended for racially vilifying the Sri Lankan team. In the other, Pakist…
Newswork
Sport and Social Inequalities
This article reviews recent research on the relationship between sport and social inequalities, focusing on gender, race, nation and social mobility. Through an engagement with these areas of research, we highlight how sport reflects and reinforces broader hierarchical structures; how it serves as a site for both inclusion and exclusion, but in ways that work unevenly; and how sport is ultimately a site for social reproduction of hierarchy and so…
Mediated Multiculturalism: Newspaper Representations of Sudanese Migrants in Australia
While multiculturalism has been central to the Australian political and social landscape since the 1970s, it has been recently challenged, with the (re)emergence of discourses of ‘social cohesion’ and ‘integration’. In this paper, we engage with these contests by focusing on newspaper coverage of Sudanese Australians around the time of the 2007 Federal Election. We ask: how did the Australian print media represent Sudanese people during this peri…
Media and the politics of belonging: Sudanese Australians, letters to the editor and the new integrationism
Nolan, Burgin, Farquharson and Marjoribanks focus on media as a significant site through which a politics of belonging is played out, focusing particularly on coverage of Sudanese Australians. To this end, they analyse letters to the editor that concern Sudanese Australians in three Victorian newspapers in 2007, a highly significant year in which this group became the focus of significant levels of (predominantly negative) media coverage. Through…
Transforming the Springboks: Re-imagining the South African Nation through Sport
Nation-building occurs not only through the creation of formal institutions,but also through struggles in cultural and symbolic contexts. In apartheid South Africa, the rugby union Springboks both symbolised and institutionalised a racially based form of ‘bounded citizenship’. In postapartheid South Africa, the Springboks have emerged as a contested and significant site in the attempt to build a non-racial nation through reconciliation. To explor…
Reform and autonomy: Perceptions of the Australian general practice community
Changing professions: General Practitioners’ perceptions of autonomy on the frontline
Professional autonomy is a much-used concept which has operated with scant empirical attention directed at understanding its meaning among practitioners. This study investigates how General Practitioners (GPs) understand their professional autonomy, and what they perceive to be the main threats to it. Four focus groups were attended by 25 GPs in Melbourne. We found that GPs aspire to an 'ideal type' of professional who has the freedom to determin…
Physicians' Discourses on Malpractice and the Meaning of Medical Malpractice
Recent analyses of the professions have considered the question of the changing nature of professional power. This study is an interpretive analysis of the meaning of physicians' discourse in the face of a perceived challenge to the traditional boundaries of clinical practice from malpractice suits. The data for this analysis were drawn from interviews with physicians from three specialties and from documents produced by the AMA/Specialty Society…
Representing Australia: Race, the media and cricket
Sport and representations of sport in the media are key sites for political and social struggles around race and nation. In order to explore how meanings of race are constructed in a sporting context, we undertook a discourse analysis of Australian print media coverage of two incidents of alleged racial vilification in sport. In one, Australian cricketer Darren Lehmann was suspended for racially vilifying the Sri Lankan team. In the other, Pakist…
Public Editors” and Media Governance at the Guardian and the New York Times
This paper examines the columns of Ian Mayes, the first Readers' Editor of The Guardian, and of Daniel Okrent, the first Public Editor of The New York Times, to provide an empirically grounded and theoretically informed analysis of the emergent role of newspaper public editors. To do this, the paper positions the emergence of public editors as part of a wider trend towards the adoption of mechanisms of media accountability, and engages with acade…
Football, Media, and Homophobia: Public Framing of the First Pride Game in the Australian Football League
Two Australian football clubs—St Kilda and the Sydney Swans—played the first Pride Game in Australian professional sport in 2016 to support and include the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) community at and through a major sporting event. This study examines the framing of this game in the print and online media and in public responses via comments on media coverage and comments on Facebook posts. The framing of bo…
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma
Mobilising networks after redundancy: The experiences of Australian journalists
Redundancy and job loss in a context of precarity have become central to the experiences of journalists globally over the last decade. Previous research has identified the importance of networks to job seeking in these contexts. This article analyses responses of 225 journalists in Australia whose positions were made redundant between 2012 and 2014 to questions about their ongoing connections with former colleagues in a survey conducted four time…
Sustainability for ecotourism: Work identity and role of community capacity building
This research sheds light on community organisations and how they can shape the landscape for ecotourism sustainability. It identifies work identity attributes that involve pro-environmental behaviours for achieving institutional challenges to meet sustainability for ecotourism goals. First, a framework on managing community organisations and its impact is proposed and empirically tested, which includes theoretical perspectives of work identity a…
Hockey becomes like a family in itself: Re-examining social capital through women's experiences of a sport club undergoing quasi-professionalisation
The community-based sports club is often recognised as a key site for the development of social capital. Intergenerational ties and connections to place can generate a strong sense of identity and can foster practices of psychological and material support. In this sense, community sports clubs can also be seen as an extension of the family. We examine social capital and Ray Pahl's 'personal communities' through an ethnographic study of women hock…
Economy and society: The enduring residualism of Australian sociology
Australian sociologists have barely engaged with the resurgence of economic sociology in the USA and Europe. It might be argued that this lack of engagement arises from a robust local agenda, immune from metropolitan fashions. This article argues that this is not the case. Rather, it arises from the enduring residualism of Australian sociology vis-a-vis economics. In turn, this residualism is grounded in sociology's late beginnings in Australia, …
Access, agenda building and information subsidies: Media relations in professional sport
While much research has examined the composition of sport media and those charged with constructing it, namely sport journalists and editors, far less has explored an essential set of actors in the construction of news: sources. This study aimed to explore the construction of the sport media agenda from arguably the most important sport news sources: sport media relations managers. In particular, this paper asked: how do media staff in sports org…
The internet: An introduction to new media
Lelia Green, Berg, Oxford, 2010, 224 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84788 299 8; $99.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84788 298 1 Innovations in the development, implementation and usage of informati
The `anti-Wapping'? Technological innovation and workplace reorganization at the Financial Times
This article examines how major upheavals at News International in the 1980s influenced the relationship between technological innovation and workplace reorganization at the Financial Times. Using a historical institutional theoretical framework, the article combines interviews with members of the Financial Times and documentary research to develop a case study of the influence of workplace reorganization at one media corporation on processes of …
Physicians' Discourses on Malpractice and the Meaning of Medical Malpractice
Recent analyses of the professions have considered the question of the changing nature of professional power. This study is an interpretive analysis of the meaning of physicians' discourse in the face of a perceived challenge to the traditional boundaries of clinical practice from malpractice suits. The data for this analysis were drawn from interviews with physicians from three specialties and from documents produced by the AMA/Specialty Society…
The `anti-Wapping'? Technological innovation and workplace reorganization at the Financial Times
This article examines how major upheavals at News International in the 1980s influenced the relationship between technological innovation and workplace reorganization at the Financial Times. Using a historical institutional theoretical framework, the article combines interviews with members of the Financial Times and documentary research to develop a case study of the influence of workplace reorganization at one media corporation on processes of …
Strategising Technological Innovation: The Case of News Corporation
Reform and autonomy: Perceptions of the Australian general practice community
Transforming the Springboks: Re-imagining the South African Nation through Sport
Nation-building occurs not only through the creation of formal institutions,but also through struggles in cultural and symbolic contexts. In apartheid South Africa, the rugby union Springboks both symbolised and institutionalised a racially based form of ‘bounded citizenship’. In postapartheid South Africa, the Springboks have emerged as a contested and significant site in the attempt to build a non-racial nation through reconciliation. To explor…
Changing professions: General Practitioners’ perceptions of autonomy on the frontline
Professional autonomy is a much-used concept which has operated with scant empirical attention directed at understanding its meaning among practitioners. This study investigates how General Practitioners (GPs) understand their professional autonomy, and what they perceive to be the main threats to it. Four focus groups were attended by 25 GPs in Melbourne. We found that GPs aspire to an 'ideal type' of professional who has the freedom to determin…
Representing Australia: Race, the media and cricket
Sport and representations of sport in the media are key sites for political and social struggles around race and nation. In order to explore how meanings of race are constructed in a sporting context, we undertook a discourse analysis of Australian print media coverage of two incidents of alleged racial vilification in sport. In one, Australian cricketer Darren Lehmann was suspended for racially vilifying the Sri Lankan team. In the other, Pakist…
Economy and society: The enduring residualism of Australian sociology
Australian sociologists have barely engaged with the resurgence of economic sociology in the USA and Europe. It might be argued that this lack of engagement arises from a robust local agenda, immune from metropolitan fashions. This article argues that this is not the case. Rather, it arises from the enduring residualism of Australian sociology vis-a-vis economics. In turn, this residualism is grounded in sociology's late beginnings in Australia, …
The Future of “Responsible Journalism”: Defamation law, public debate and news production
If the future of newspapers includes online and transnational platforms, the influence of defamation law on journalism deserves close investigation. A key concern for international publishers remains being sued in defamation in the United Kingdom or in other countries following its legal tradition. However, UK law has developed in recent years so that it now protects “responsible journalism” and many other commonwealth countries have seen similar…
Newswork
News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change
Public Editors” and Media Governance at the Guardian and the New York Times
This paper examines the columns of Ian Mayes, the first Readers' Editor of The Guardian, and of Daniel Okrent, the first Public Editor of The New York Times, to provide an empirically grounded and theoretically informed analysis of the emergent role of newspaper public editors. To do this, the paper positions the emergence of public editors as part of a wider trend towards the adoption of mechanisms of media accountability, and engages with acade…
The internet: An introduction to new media
Lelia Green, Berg, Oxford, 2010, 224 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84788 299 8; $99.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84788 298 1 Innovations in the development, implementation and usage of informati
Mediated Multiculturalism: Newspaper Representations of Sudanese Migrants in Australia
While multiculturalism has been central to the Australian political and social landscape since the 1970s, it has been recently challenged, with the (re)emergence of discourses of ‘social cohesion’ and ‘integration’. In this paper, we engage with these contests by focusing on newspaper coverage of Sudanese Australians around the time of the 2007 Federal Election. We ask: how did the Australian print media represent Sudanese people during this peri…
Sport and Society in the Global Age
Modern professional sport is a key site of social action. This book focuses on the interactions of sport and society, and engages with the political, policy and organisational aspects of such interactions. With a clever structure that takes in turn issues of process, regulation and culture, this is a unique introduction to the sociology of sport
Democracy, Media and Law in Malaysia and Singapore: A Space for Speech
Introduction: Making Spaces for Speech Amanda Whiting, Andrew Kenyon, Tim Marjoribanks, with Naomita Royan 1. Media Governmentality in Singapore Terence Lee 2. Why Singapore Journalists don't Press for Legal Reform Cherian George 3. Malaysiakini's Citizen Journalists: Navigating Local and National Identities Online Janet Steele 4. Seeking Democracy in Malaysia: New Media, Traditional Media and the State Mustafa K. Anuar 5. Defaming Politicians, S…
Sport and Social Inequalities
This article reviews recent research on the relationship between sport and social inequalities, focusing on gender, race, nation and social mobility. Through an engagement with these areas of research, we highlight how sport reflects and reinforces broader hierarchical structures; how it serves as a site for both inclusion and exclusion, but in ways that work unevenly; and how sport is ultimately a site for social reproduction of hierarchy and so…
Rupert Murdoch. A Reassessment
Rupert Murdoch. A Reassessment . By Rodney Tiffen (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2014), pp.ix + 374. AU$34.99 (pb)
Media and the politics of belonging: Sudanese Australians, letters to the editor and the new integrationism
Nolan, Burgin, Farquharson and Marjoribanks focus on media as a significant site through which a politics of belonging is played out, focusing particularly on coverage of Sudanese Australians. To this end, they analyse letters to the editor that concern Sudanese Australians in three Victorian newspapers in 2007, a highly significant year in which this group became the focus of significant levels of (predominantly negative) media coverage. Through…
Access, agenda building and information subsidies: Media relations in professional sport
While much research has examined the composition of sport media and those charged with constructing it, namely sport journalists and editors, far less has explored an essential set of actors in the construction of news: sources. This study aimed to explore the construction of the sport media agenda from arguably the most important sport news sources: sport media relations managers. In particular, this paper asked: how do media staff in sports org…
Australian media and the politics of belonging
'Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging' addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia, which will be of interest to both students and researchers concerned with developing a greater understanding of issues of belonging, and to a broader and general readership concerned with engaging with this key area of national and international interest.
I’m Not a Vet!” Marginalisation and Practices of Resistance to Ageing by Women Hockey Players
Participation in team sports constitutes both a site for perpetuating discriminatory cultural perceptions of ageing women as well as a means of resisting and challenging such perceptions. Using Markula’s framework of Foucauldian feminism, we examine the marginalisation of women who play hockey in Australia and their acts of resistance against discriminatory processes related to ageing. This analysis draws on an ethnographic study of an Australian…
Sustainability for ecotourism: Work identity and role of community capacity building
This research sheds light on community organisations and how they can shape the landscape for ecotourism sustainability. It identifies work identity attributes that involve pro-environmental behaviours for achieving institutional challenges to meet sustainability for ecotourism goals. First, a framework on managing community organisations and its impact is proposed and empirically tested, which includes theoretical perspectives of work identity a…
Hockey becomes like a family in itself: Re-examining social capital through women's experiences of a sport club undergoing quasi-professionalisation
The community-based sports club is often recognised as a key site for the development of social capital. Intergenerational ties and connections to place can generate a strong sense of identity and can foster practices of psychological and material support. In this sense, community sports clubs can also be seen as an extension of the family. We examine social capital and Ray Pahl's 'personal communities' through an ethnographic study of women hock…
Football, Media, and Homophobia: Public Framing of the First Pride Game in the Australian Football League
Two Australian football clubs—St Kilda and the Sydney Swans—played the first Pride Game in Australian professional sport in 2016 to support and include the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) community at and through a major sporting event. This study examines the framing of this game in the print and online media and in public responses via comments on media coverage and comments on Facebook posts. The framing of bo…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Newspaper (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Business (7 works)