Bunty Avieson
Biographic Data
| ID | 310390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bunty Avieson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bunty |
| FAMILY NAME | Avieson |
| SIGNATURE | AVIESON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6129-9497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The roles of lifestyle journalists: Normative role orientation, cognitive role orientation, and the role conception-performance gap
Journalists’ professional role conceptualisation contributes to a normative understanding of what journalism is. Current role research focuses mainly on journalism’s democratic and political function and less on journalism’s function in individuals’ private, everyday lives, despite the growth in such ‘softer’ news. Based on 31 interviews with Singaporean lifestyle journalists, this study investigated lifestyle journalists’ normative role orientat…
Wiki warriors: Language editors counter knowledge hierarchies during the pandemic
The volunteerism of Wikipedia editors has been conceptualised as an altruistic form of social production and a form of social activism. However, notions of linguistic activism and cultural identity as motivators, and the ways in which editors representing the Global South have sought to counter knowledge inequities online, have not been addressed. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of digital colonialism and social justice; a grounded theory appro…
A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism
Guided by boundary work, this study aims to investigate how lifestyle journalism's boundaries are changing in response to the rise of creator culture. Specifically, this study seeks to understand how lifestyle journalists define and perceive new creators in their profession and what kind of boundary-making strategies they enact in reaction to such new actors. Through 31 interviews with Singaporean lifestyle journalists, the findings show that the…
Am I a Journalist?” Lifestyle Journalists’ Discursive Construction of Their Profession Inside, Outside, and Alongside the Journalistic Field
Two Wikipedias in Bhutan: Problems and solutions for knowledge equity in the digital age
The growing influence of English Wikipedia as a provider of information has created powerful new gatekeepers and publishing practices that determine not only what constitutes knowledge in the online world, but whose knowledge is privileged. The structural inequalities of the offline world are being reproduced online, creating new sites for information imperialism. Research shows western contributors are overwriting local knowledge, perpetuating w…
Editors, sources and the 'go back' button: Wikipedia's framework for beating misinformation
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the challenges and deadly consequences of misinformation circulating across digital platforms. Wikipedia is emerging from that communication crisis as both an effective information site, as well as offering wider lessons for the Internet age derived from the editorial structure that it has created. While Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggled during the pandemic to contain the spread of misinformation, Wikipedia…
Breaking news on Wikipedia: Collaborating, collating and competing
When a major global news event occurs, such as the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka or the March shootings in New Zealand, Wikipedia contributors from around the world come together in a virtual newsroom to craft a narrative, followed closely by readers seeking the latest information. In any given month, the site’s most popular articles — both in number of views and number of edits — are those reporting breaking news. Wikipedia’s protocols of ‘no ori…
Journalism in Disguise: Standpoint Theory and the Ethics of Günter Wallraff’s Undercover Immersion
Deception is a key element of immersive undercover journalism, achieved through the omission of information, the perpetuation of misconceptions, or possibly the assumption of a false identity. Usually when proponents defend going undercover, they use the-ends-justify-the-means arguments; that despite the journalist’s duplicity, public benefit outweighs the dishonesty that lies at the heart of the practice. Yet, such statements are usually made in…
Dangerous liaisons: Undercover Journalism, Standpoint Theory and Social Revelation
Standpoint Theory suggests that those who can bring the most insight to the workings of society are those on its edges and its margins. People living in circumstances of disempowerment are better placed because of their standpoint to perceive what is really occurring across the social and cultural domain; it is their standpoint, which is the most revealing. When a journalist works undercover, they are attempting to better understand, as far as is…
Am I a Journalist?” Lifestyle Journalists’ Discursive Construction of Their Profession Inside, Outside, and Alongside the Journalistic Field
Dangerous liaisons: Undercover Journalism, Standpoint Theory and Social Revelation
Standpoint Theory suggests that those who can bring the most insight to the workings of society are those on its edges and its margins. People living in circumstances of disempowerment are better placed because of their standpoint to perceive what is really occurring across the social and cultural domain; it is their standpoint, which is the most revealing. When a journalist works undercover, they are attempting to better understand, as far as is…
Dangerous liaisons: Undercover Journalism, Standpoint Theory and Social Revelation
Standpoint Theory suggests that those who can bring the most insight to the workings of society are those on its edges and its margins. People living in circumstances of disempowerment are better placed because of their standpoint to perceive what is really occurring across the social and cultural domain; it is their standpoint, which is the most revealing. When a journalist works undercover, they are attempting to better understand, as far as is…
Breaking news on Wikipedia: Collaborating, collating and competing
When a major global news event occurs, such as the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka or the March shootings in New Zealand, Wikipedia contributors from around the world come together in a virtual newsroom to craft a narrative, followed closely by readers seeking the latest information. In any given month, the site’s most popular articles — both in number of views and number of edits — are those reporting breaking news. Wikipedia’s protocols of ‘no ori…
Journalism in Disguise: Standpoint Theory and the Ethics of Günter Wallraff’s Undercover Immersion
Deception is a key element of immersive undercover journalism, achieved through the omission of information, the perpetuation of misconceptions, or possibly the assumption of a false identity. Usually when proponents defend going undercover, they use the-ends-justify-the-means arguments; that despite the journalist’s duplicity, public benefit outweighs the dishonesty that lies at the heart of the practice. Yet, such statements are usually made in…
Two Wikipedias in Bhutan: Problems and solutions for knowledge equity in the digital age
The growing influence of English Wikipedia as a provider of information has created powerful new gatekeepers and publishing practices that determine not only what constitutes knowledge in the online world, but whose knowledge is privileged. The structural inequalities of the offline world are being reproduced online, creating new sites for information imperialism. Research shows western contributors are overwriting local knowledge, perpetuating w…
Editors, sources and the 'go back' button: Wikipedia's framework for beating misinformation
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the challenges and deadly consequences of misinformation circulating across digital platforms. Wikipedia is emerging from that communication crisis as both an effective information site, as well as offering wider lessons for the Internet age derived from the editorial structure that it has created. While Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggled during the pandemic to contain the spread of misinformation, Wikipedia…
Am I a Journalist?” Lifestyle Journalists’ Discursive Construction of Their Profession Inside, Outside, and Alongside the Journalistic Field
Wiki warriors: Language editors counter knowledge hierarchies during the pandemic
The volunteerism of Wikipedia editors has been conceptualised as an altruistic form of social production and a form of social activism. However, notions of linguistic activism and cultural identity as motivators, and the ways in which editors representing the Global South have sought to counter knowledge inequities online, have not been addressed. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of digital colonialism and social justice; a grounded theory appro…
A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism
Guided by boundary work, this study aims to investigate how lifestyle journalism's boundaries are changing in response to the rise of creator culture. Specifically, this study seeks to understand how lifestyle journalists define and perceive new creators in their profession and what kind of boundary-making strategies they enact in reaction to such new actors. Through 31 interviews with Singaporean lifestyle journalists, the findings show that the…
The roles of lifestyle journalists: Normative role orientation, cognitive role orientation, and the role conception-performance gap
Journalists’ professional role conceptualisation contributes to a normative understanding of what journalism is. Current role research focuses mainly on journalism’s democratic and political function and less on journalism’s function in individuals’ private, everyday lives, despite the growth in such ‘softer’ news. Based on 31 interviews with Singaporean lifestyle journalists, this study investigated lifestyle journalists’ normative role orientat…
Political science (8 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Journalism (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Wikis in Education and Collaboration (4 works) · Law (3 works)