Sybil Nolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sybil Nolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sybil |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolan |
| SIGNATURE | NOLAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3850-2746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Insiders and Outsiders, Winners and Losers: Close-Ups of the Struggle for Power and Status in Australia
Robert Menzies’s Mallee: The Region as a Frame of Elite Struggle
Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People and the meaning of 1992
This article investigates the reception of Judith Brett’s landmark study, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, on its publication in 1992, a moment when many Australians living under neoliberal economic reform and recession were rethinking what it meant to be middle class. Brett argued that Menzies thought it meant individuals living the best lives they could, lives defined by independence and the possession of superior moral qualities. Her account …
Books Versus Screens: A Study of Australian Children’s Media Use During the Covid Pandemic
As children’s use of screens increased during the COVID pandemic, their reading of traditional books was affected, a national survey of Australian parents shows. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Melbourne to compare young people’s use of screens and books in the pandemic. Their online survey of 513 primary caregivers of children aged seven to thirteen around Australia showed that tablet use flourished during the pandemi…
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…
The Snub: Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club
Bart Ziino’s scholarship illuminated some of the complex reasons behind thousands of Australian men’s failure to enlist for military service in the First World War. This article explores the corresponding complexity of the establishment’s response to non-enlistment. It focuses on the case of the barrister and politician Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club, to investigate how elite gentlemen’s clubs used the concept of ‘fitness for membership’ t…
David Syme: Man of The Age
The Snub: Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club
Bart Ziino’s scholarship illuminated some of the complex reasons behind thousands of Australian men’s failure to enlist for military service in the First World War. This article explores the corresponding complexity of the establishment’s response to non-enlistment. It focuses on the case of the barrister and politician Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club, to investigate how elite gentlemen’s clubs used the concept of ‘fitness for membership’ t…
David Syme: Man of The Age
The Snub: Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club
Bart Ziino’s scholarship illuminated some of the complex reasons behind thousands of Australian men’s failure to enlist for military service in the First World War. This article explores the corresponding complexity of the establishment’s response to non-enlistment. It focuses on the case of the barrister and politician Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club, to investigate how elite gentlemen’s clubs used the concept of ‘fitness for membership’ t…
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…
Books Versus Screens: A Study of Australian Children’s Media Use During the Covid Pandemic
As children’s use of screens increased during the COVID pandemic, their reading of traditional books was affected, a national survey of Australian parents shows. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Melbourne to compare young people’s use of screens and books in the pandemic. Their online survey of 513 primary caregivers of children aged seven to thirteen around Australia showed that tablet use flourished during the pandemi…
Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People and the meaning of 1992
This article investigates the reception of Judith Brett’s landmark study, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, on its publication in 1992, a moment when many Australians living under neoliberal economic reform and recession were rethinking what it meant to be middle class. Brett argued that Menzies thought it meant individuals living the best lives they could, lives defined by independence and the possession of superior moral qualities. Her account …
Insiders and Outsiders, Winners and Losers: Close-Ups of the Struggle for Power and Status in Australia
Robert Menzies’s Mallee: The Region as a Frame of Elite Struggle
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Elite (2 works)