Claire Konkes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Konkes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Konkes |
| SIGNATURE | KONKES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0847-0763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Communicating Antarctica in a Changing Climate – Recommendations Following a National Survey
Antarctica's influence on Earth's climate and ocean systems, along with its scientific value and unique international governance arrangements, makes it a site of global importance. As a place known primarily through mediated representation, its associations with natural wonder, scientific discovery, and international cooperation also lend it significant symbolic power. While environmental communication scholarship largely concurs that news media …
Systems of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships
In the face of large‐scale marine environmental challenges, solutions that meaningfully capture the complexity of socio‐cultural and economic factors contributing to such issues—and their solutions—are urgently needed. This scoping review explores examples of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships to inform the conceptual underpinning and meaning of reciprocity, including key concepts, definitions, characteristics and knowledge gaps. In doing s…
The Anthropocene
Despite its formal rejection as a new geological epoch in 2024, “the Anthropocene” continues to circulate widely in scientific, policy, and public circles as a maturing neologism signifying the complex ecological and social problems humanity faces at a global scale. While there is a corpus of criticism around the Anthropocene and related concepts, this paper focuses on the discursive construction of the Anthropocene as a problem frame that places…
Southern perspectives in environmental communication
Media and the environment
While news and journalism has always played an important role in how we understand the environment, social media and other digital spaces are providing more visibility to environmental issues and debates than ever. Ideas about ‘the environment’ may now be mainstream, but communicating the complexity of meaningful action on climate and other issues remains challenging for journalists and other environmental communicators. Thinking about media and …
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication
An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its 'lifetime accomplishments' in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. 'News' of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians sca…
Coal versus Coral
The likelihood that climate change may destroy the Great Barrier Reef has been a central motif in Australia’s climate change politics for more than a decade as political ideologies and corporate and environmental activism draw or refute connections between the coal industry and climate change. The media fuel this debate because in this contest, as ever, the news media always do more than simply report the news. Given that the Reef has also been c…
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict
When Australian physicist, Peter Ridd, lost his tenured position with James Cook University, he was called a ‘whistleblower’, ‘contrarian academic’ and ‘hero of climate science denial’. In this article, we examine the events surrounding his dismissal to better understand the role of science communication in organised climate change scepticism. We discuss the sophistry of his complaint to locate where and through what processes science communicati…
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News
Local and regional journalism is perceived to aid the functioning of democracy. Yet local publications are increasingly being forced to close due to the collapse of pre-digital news business models. An emerging area of scholarship considers potential funding solutions for local news media. One key enquiry is how local news publishers may attract more revenue from their audiences. This is a difficult task for all news organisations, yet even more …
Green Lawfare
Communication strategies involving news media and environmental groups are well documented and research into protest politics and other forms of environmental communication has made considerable progress in the analysis of the strategies that various actors use to influence environmental policy. There is less scholarship, however, on the journalistic representation of the legal strategies employed by environmental non-government organizations, su…
The Great Barrier Reef
Since the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection…
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
When 11-year-old Australian boy Luke Batty was murdered by his father, his mother Rosie Batty used her authority as a high-profile victim to orchestrate a sustained and nationwide campaign to address family violence. Her efforts informed public and political debate as well as policy change at state and federal levels in Australia. This study examines news coverage of the Luke Batty case over a 20-month period following Luke’s murder on 12 Februar…
Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news
In 2009 in Hobart, Australia, a 12-year-old ward of the state was advertised in a metropolitan newspaper as an 18-year-old prostitute. The decision to prosecute only one of the 100-plus men alleged to have paid her for sex made national headlines and gave rise to allegations of a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government and the judiciary. It also resulted in reform of the state’s laws relating to the ‘mistake as to age’ defence. This…
Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking
Conspiracy theories can no longer be consigned to the fringes of media; they are a feature of news and journalism and can be defined as attempts to find causal explanations for events in covert plots rather than more prosaic processes. Often a pejorative label, journalists know that conspiracies can be sites for significant news-making. This empirical study explores the conditions and practices that lead to conspiracy theories entering news narra…
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News
Local and regional journalism is perceived to aid the functioning of democracy. Yet local publications are increasingly being forced to close due to the collapse of pre-digital news business models. An emerging area of scholarship considers potential funding solutions for local news media. One key enquiry is how local news publishers may attract more revenue from their audiences. This is a difficult task for all news organisations, yet even more …
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
When 11-year-old Australian boy Luke Batty was murdered by his father, his mother Rosie Batty used her authority as a high-profile victim to orchestrate a sustained and nationwide campaign to address family violence. Her efforts informed public and political debate as well as policy change at state and federal levels in Australia. This study examines news coverage of the Luke Batty case over a 20-month period following Luke’s murder on 12 Februar…
Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking
Conspiracy theories can no longer be consigned to the fringes of media; they are a feature of news and journalism and can be defined as attempts to find causal explanations for events in covert plots rather than more prosaic processes. Often a pejorative label, journalists know that conspiracies can be sites for significant news-making. This empirical study explores the conditions and practices that lead to conspiracy theories entering news narra…
The Great Barrier Reef
Since the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection…
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication
An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its 'lifetime accomplishments' in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. 'News' of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians sca…
Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news
In 2009 in Hobart, Australia, a 12-year-old ward of the state was advertised in a metropolitan newspaper as an 18-year-old prostitute. The decision to prosecute only one of the 100-plus men alleged to have paid her for sex made national headlines and gave rise to allegations of a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government and the judiciary. It also resulted in reform of the state’s laws relating to the ‘mistake as to age’ defence. This…
Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news
In 2009 in Hobart, Australia, a 12-year-old ward of the state was advertised in a metropolitan newspaper as an 18-year-old prostitute. The decision to prosecute only one of the 100-plus men alleged to have paid her for sex made national headlines and gave rise to allegations of a conspiracy involving the highest levels of government and the judiciary. It also resulted in reform of the state’s laws relating to the ‘mistake as to age’ defence. This…
Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking
Conspiracy theories can no longer be consigned to the fringes of media; they are a feature of news and journalism and can be defined as attempts to find causal explanations for events in covert plots rather than more prosaic processes. Often a pejorative label, journalists know that conspiracies can be sites for significant news-making. This empirical study explores the conditions and practices that lead to conspiracy theories entering news narra…
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
When 11-year-old Australian boy Luke Batty was murdered by his father, his mother Rosie Batty used her authority as a high-profile victim to orchestrate a sustained and nationwide campaign to address family violence. Her efforts informed public and political debate as well as policy change at state and federal levels in Australia. This study examines news coverage of the Luke Batty case over a 20-month period following Luke’s murder on 12 Februar…
Green Lawfare
Communication strategies involving news media and environmental groups are well documented and research into protest politics and other forms of environmental communication has made considerable progress in the analysis of the strategies that various actors use to influence environmental policy. There is less scholarship, however, on the journalistic representation of the legal strategies employed by environmental non-government organizations, su…
The Great Barrier Reef
Since the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection…
Coal versus Coral
The likelihood that climate change may destroy the Great Barrier Reef has been a central motif in Australia’s climate change politics for more than a decade as political ideologies and corporate and environmental activism draw or refute connections between the coal industry and climate change. The media fuel this debate because in this contest, as ever, the news media always do more than simply report the news. Given that the Reef has also been c…
Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict
When Australian physicist, Peter Ridd, lost his tenured position with James Cook University, he was called a ‘whistleblower’, ‘contrarian academic’ and ‘hero of climate science denial’. In this article, we examine the events surrounding his dismissal to better understand the role of science communication in organised climate change scepticism. We discuss the sophistry of his complaint to locate where and through what processes science communicati…
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News
Local and regional journalism is perceived to aid the functioning of democracy. Yet local publications are increasingly being forced to close due to the collapse of pre-digital news business models. An emerging area of scholarship considers potential funding solutions for local news media. One key enquiry is how local news publishers may attract more revenue from their audiences. This is a difficult task for all news organisations, yet even more …
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication
An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its 'lifetime accomplishments' in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. 'News' of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians sca…
Media and the environment
While news and journalism has always played an important role in how we understand the environment, social media and other digital spaces are providing more visibility to environmental issues and debates than ever. Ideas about ‘the environment’ may now be mainstream, but communicating the complexity of meaningful action on climate and other issues remains challenging for journalists and other environmental communicators. Thinking about media and …
Southern perspectives in environmental communication
Communicating Antarctica in a Changing Climate – Recommendations Following a National Survey
Antarctica's influence on Earth's climate and ocean systems, along with its scientific value and unique international governance arrangements, makes it a site of global importance. As a place known primarily through mediated representation, its associations with natural wonder, scientific discovery, and international cooperation also lend it significant symbolic power. While environmental communication scholarship largely concurs that news media …
Systems of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships
In the face of large‐scale marine environmental challenges, solutions that meaningfully capture the complexity of socio‐cultural and economic factors contributing to such issues—and their solutions—are urgently needed. This scoping review explores examples of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships to inform the conceptual underpinning and meaning of reciprocity, including key concepts, definitions, characteristics and knowledge gaps. In doing s…
The Anthropocene
Despite its formal rejection as a new geological epoch in 2024, “the Anthropocene” continues to circulate widely in scientific, policy, and public circles as a maturing neologism signifying the complex ecological and social problems humanity faces at a global scale. While there is a corpus of criticism around the Anthropocene and related concepts, this paper focuses on the discursive construction of the Anthropocene as a problem frame that places…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · News media (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works)