Alexandra Dane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Dane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dane |
| SIGNATURE | DANE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1798-171X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Place and Time to Write and Publish: Creating Books in Regional Australia
Community publishing in regional Australia operates by temporal frameworks shaped by place that differ from those shaped by the commercial imperatives that govern mainstream publishing. This paper draws on Rita Felski’s tripartite feminist heuristic of everyday time, life time, and large-scale time, alongside Mary Graham’s Indigenous epistemology of place, to analyse interview data from writers, publishers, booksellers, and community connectors i…
The significance of place in book publishing: Insights from community publishing in regional Australia
This article argues for the importance of place in the study of contemporary publishing activity. We offer insights from a research project into the production of books by community groups and individuals in regional Australia, with a focus on four sites: Alice Springs/Mparntwe, Broken Hill/Willyama, Winton (on the lands of the Koa people) and Ayr (on the lands of the Bindal people). Our design is informed by place- and relationality-centred Indi…
Authorship across media: Considering Wednesday Addams
Towards a comprehensive picture of Australian literature beyond the publishing capitals
This article details the independent, small press and community publishing in Australia that is occurring outside the two major metropolitan publishing centres of Sydney and Melbourne. Guided by Mary Graham's articulation of the significance of place (2007) and drawing on a dataset constructed from the AustLit database from 2013 to 2023, we identify a high quantity of varied publishing activity in Australia's regions. The result is a comprehensiv…
You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with how publishing sector publicity staff are perceived by their colleagues and peers, having a distinct knock-on effect to work practices and labour conditions. In this article, we explore these perceptions and, through interviews with eight publicists working in publishing houses in Australia, explore how the work of publicity is commonly misrecognised an…
Book publishing
Studying books in the same ways that we study other media is important to understanding the fundamental role that books play in developing and sustaining our culture and our communicative processes. Yet there is a tradition within academia of asking very different questions about – and using very different methods to understand – books and other media. Books have been (and are still) most commonly studied, in a university context, in the discipli…
The social media diet: A scoping review to investigate the association between social media, body image and eating disorders amongst young people
Background Eating disorders are a group of heterogenous, disabling and deadly psychiatric illnesses with a plethora of associated health consequences. Exploratory research suggests that social media usage may be triggering body image concerns and heightening eating disorder pathology amongst young people, but the topic is under-researched as a global public health issue. Aim To systematically map out and critically review the existing global lite…
Book publicists and the labour of cultural intermediation
Book publicists are important intermediaries in generating earned media attention, creating discoverability opportunities, and getting new books into the hands of potential readers.Despite their important function in book culture, publicists' labour in producing and framing value in the book industry is often rendered invisible in the industry and scholarly literature, which we trace back to fielddefining conceptual models, particularly Robert Da…
Cultural Capital as Performance: Tote Bags and Contemporary Literary Festivals
The canvas tote bag, often branded with the name and logo of a popular cultural institution or bookstore, has become a shorthand for an individual’s accumulated cultural capital; this seemingly innocuous accessory has the power to signal to one’s peers the level of their engagement with the cultural and creative industries in a seemingly casual but deeply coded manner. The literary festival presents the perfect opportunity for individuals to sign…
Author Care and the Invisibility of Affective Labour: Publicists’ Role in Book Publishing
A sharper conversation: Book Publishers’ Use of Social Media Marketing in the Age of the Algorithm
This article explores developments in book publishers’ use of social media (SM) as a marketing tool, particularly the rise of customer-focused marketing. Surveying the literature about publishers’ engagement with SM marketing (SMM), we argue that discourse modes of publishers’ SM practice, and the larger marketing ecologies of which this practice forms a part, have been transformed by contextual changes in the mediascape wherein publishing profes…
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A sharper conversation: Book Publishers’ Use of Social Media Marketing in the Age of the Algorithm
This article explores developments in book publishers’ use of social media (SM) as a marketing tool, particularly the rise of customer-focused marketing. Surveying the literature about publishers’ engagement with SM marketing (SMM), we argue that discourse modes of publishers’ SM practice, and the larger marketing ecologies of which this practice forms a part, have been transformed by contextual changes in the mediascape wherein publishing profes…
Cultural Capital as Performance: Tote Bags and Contemporary Literary Festivals
The canvas tote bag, often branded with the name and logo of a popular cultural institution or bookstore, has become a shorthand for an individual’s accumulated cultural capital; this seemingly innocuous accessory has the power to signal to one’s peers the level of their engagement with the cultural and creative industries in a seemingly casual but deeply coded manner. The literary festival presents the perfect opportunity for individuals to sign…
Author Care and the Invisibility of Affective Labour: Publicists’ Role in Book Publishing
Book publishing
Studying books in the same ways that we study other media is important to understanding the fundamental role that books play in developing and sustaining our culture and our communicative processes. Yet there is a tradition within academia of asking very different questions about – and using very different methods to understand – books and other media. Books have been (and are still) most commonly studied, in a university context, in the discipli…
The social media diet: A scoping review to investigate the association between social media, body image and eating disorders amongst young people
Background Eating disorders are a group of heterogenous, disabling and deadly psychiatric illnesses with a plethora of associated health consequences. Exploratory research suggests that social media usage may be triggering body image concerns and heightening eating disorder pathology amongst young people, but the topic is under-researched as a global public health issue. Aim To systematically map out and critically review the existing global lite…
Book publicists and the labour of cultural intermediation
Book publicists are important intermediaries in generating earned media attention, creating discoverability opportunities, and getting new books into the hands of potential readers.Despite their important function in book culture, publicists' labour in producing and framing value in the book industry is often rendered invisible in the industry and scholarly literature, which we trace back to fielddefining conceptual models, particularly Robert Da…
You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with how publishing sector publicity staff are perceived by their colleagues and peers, having a distinct knock-on effect to work practices and labour conditions. In this article, we explore these perceptions and, through interviews with eight publicists working in publishing houses in Australia, explore how the work of publicity is commonly misrecognised an…
The significance of place in book publishing: Insights from community publishing in regional Australia
This article argues for the importance of place in the study of contemporary publishing activity. We offer insights from a research project into the production of books by community groups and individuals in regional Australia, with a focus on four sites: Alice Springs/Mparntwe, Broken Hill/Willyama, Winton (on the lands of the Koa people) and Ayr (on the lands of the Bindal people). Our design is informed by place- and relationality-centred Indi…
Authorship across media: Considering Wednesday Addams
Towards a comprehensive picture of Australian literature beyond the publishing capitals
This article details the independent, small press and community publishing in Australia that is occurring outside the two major metropolitan publishing centres of Sydney and Melbourne. Guided by Mary Graham's articulation of the significance of place (2007) and drawing on a dataset constructed from the AustLit database from 2013 to 2023, we identify a high quantity of varied publishing activity in Australia's regions. The result is a comprehensiv…
A Place and Time to Write and Publish: Creating Books in Regional Australia
Community publishing in regional Australia operates by temporal frameworks shaped by place that differ from those shaped by the commercial imperatives that govern mainstream publishing. This paper draws on Rita Felski’s tripartite feminist heuristic of everyday time, life time, and large-scale time, alongside Mary Graham’s Indigenous epistemology of place, to analyse interview data from writers, publishers, booksellers, and community connectors i…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Publishing (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Publicity (3 works)