Media International Australia Research Articles

Democratic Podcasting: Mediating Subjectivity in Constructive Audio Journalism Practice

ABSTRACT Journalism has long had an uneasy relationship with subjectivity. However, when it comes to podcasting personal storytelling is often highlighted as a strength. Top journalism prizes such as the Pulitzer are frequently awarded to podcasts that report through a subjective frame. The common podcasting technique of self-reflexivity has also been highlighted as valuable in transparently revealing elements of the journalistic process, with potential to build audience trust. While there is now a substantial body of research focused on podcast journalism, there has been limited focus on how the prominent use of subjectivity might relate to the medium’s democratic function. Guided by constructive journalism, this study explores how journalistic subjectivity can be mediated in podcast production in ways that enhance the medium’s democratic value. It combines practice-led research with mixed methods, with efforts to involve the podcast audience in journalistic production. It demonstrates how attempts to cultivate a journalistic persona and reveal elements the journalistic process can be leveraged to encourage pro-social attitudes. The experimental approach provides a model for future research applying constructive journalism to podcasting, building on Lindgren and Jorgensen’s [2023. Podcasting and constructive journalism in health stories about antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Media International Australia, 187(1), 73-87] study.

From the Self to the Community

Research Article| April 01 2023 From the Self to the Community: Experiences of a First-Generation Researcher in India Devina Sarwatay Devina Sarwatay Devina Sarwatay is senior research fellow (UGC-NET) and PhD candidate in the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, India. She researches young people and social media with Professor Usha Raman. She is also webinar series manager of the Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island, USA, and research associate, FemLab and CDMC-MICA working on Digital Creativity and Global Kids Online-India. Her latest lead- and co-authored work is published in Information, Communication & Society (won the ICA CAM Best Published Article Award 2023), Media International Australia, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Journal of Communication, as well as in Routledge and Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks. She regularly presents her work at conferences like ICA, IAMCR, and AoIR. You can reach her at Twitter: @DevinaSarwatay. email: devina.sarwatay@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar email: devina.sarwatay@gmail.com Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (2): 298–304. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.298 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Devina Sarwatay; From the Self to the Community: Experiences of a First-Generation Researcher in India. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2023; 4 (2): 298–304. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.298 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search I believe I have been extremely fortunate in my research career so far: being at the right place at the right time and finding the right people to guide me into the right opportunities or helping me to create them. As far as I know, I am a first-generation researcher who happened to have the best time of my life during my master’s when I was introduced to research. My contributions in the first practical rural immersion research project and the final master’s dissertation were received well by expert examiners, giving me the confidence needed to go through the selection process for an MPhil. I imagined this second exclusively research-oriented master’s degree would act as a trial run before I signed up for a longer commitment of a PhD. In the meantime, I also cleared a competitive national examination1 that would fund my PhD. As I am writing this... You do not currently have access to this content.

'Waiting with Bated Breath'

'Waiting with Bated Breath'

Co-Designing Change

Co-Designing Change

Celebration of the distinguished career of Professor Tom O’Regan (1956–2020)

Professor Tom O’Regan played an important role in the establishment and formalisation of media and cultural studies, especially in Australia and New Zealand. He had a long association with Media International Australia, serving on the journal’s Editorial Board for many years and helping to guide MIA successfully through several key periods of significant change. In this special issue MIA, on behalf of its community of scholars, takes this opportunity to honour Tom, and to remember and celebrate his insightful and innovative work.

Extraordinary issue: Coronavirus, crisis and communication

It does not need to be said that we live in extraordinary times. The majority of the world's population are living under some form of movement restrictions, and our daily work, sustenance and sociability have been almost entirely mediatized. As scholars of media and communication, there are critical developments in play that deserve our attention and our voice, and Media International Australia is pleased to offer this first selection of articles and commentaries from our Extraordinary Issue on Coronavirus, Crisis and Communication.

Dreaming of Creativity: Imaging and Imagining the Creative Self in Memoir

Dreaming of Creativity: Imaging and Imagining the Creative Self in Memoir

Wandering in the City: Time, Memory, and Experience in Digital Game Space

Wandering in the City: Time, Memory, and Experience in Digital Game Space

Animals Australia and the Challenges of Vegan Stereotyping

Animals Australia and the Challenges of Vegan Stereotyping

Being Jacob: Young Children, Automedial Subjectivity, and Child Social Media Influencers

Being Jacob: Young Children, Automedial Subjectivity, and Child Social Media Influencers

Artists and the Rite of Passage North to the Temperate Zone

For an aspiring Australian artist, a sojourn north to the world’s large cultural centres has become a rite of passage and to some extent a requirement to achieve recognition both abroad and at home. Many of Australia’s most recognised artists have spent some or a considerable amount of time abroad, such as musician Peter Sculthorpe, painter Arthur Streeton and contemporary indigenous photographer Tracy Moffatt. Despite the frequency of this rite of passage, Australian art continues to struggle to achieve significant international recognition. This article considers the influence of this rite of passage for Australian artists in the context of a rapidly changing global art world, which is increasingly subject to changing production and consumption patterns. It does so in the context of what Bourdieu describes as a cultural field and which involves a complex arrangement of horizontal and vertical power relationships. The paper also considers the extent to which this rite of passage is relevant in the second decade of the 21st century and for a nation which, although having strong historical ties to Britain in particular, is geographically closer to Asia and in a time of the Asian century.

Curating Technologies of Memory and Affect

Technologies of memory and affect are all around us. In this introduction to a special issue of Media International Australia on the theme of technologies of memory and affect, we report on the activities of year-long collaborative and interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities. We offer insights into the research program, its structure and methodologies, from which some of these articles emerged, including brief description of collaborative processes and creative outputs. We include field note excerpts and selected images from the visual arts exhibition, part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, in an effort to share the energies and embodied dynamics of the event. We summarise the six articles that form the collection and reflect upon their relationship to one another and our theme.

The #AustralianBeachspace Project: Examining Opportunities for Research Dissemination Using Instagram

The #AustralianBeachspace Project: Examining Opportunities for Research Dissemination Using Instagram

Building Online Academic Community: Reputation Work on Twitter

Building Online Academic Community: Reputation Work on Twitter

Access, Place and Australian Live Music

The role of place in cultivating artistic practice, communities and audiences is well established and the economic, social and cultural benefits that flow from this are becoming better understood. By contrast, the factors impacting and influencing access to these places is poorly theorised. This paper identifies and examines these factors as they apply to live music in Australia, through a qualitative survey of live music patrons and venues. We compare the themes identified from our data with existing theories of access in the arts, with a particular focus on the ways in which place-based music scenes may encourage or exclude participation. We address the question of how access affects participation within these scenes, as well as how access might be improved.

Beginnings

Beginnings

A Curatorial Turn in Policy Development? Managing the Changing Nature of Policymaking Subject to Mediatisation

A Curatorial Turn in Policy Development? Managing the Changing Nature of Policymaking Subject to Mediatisation

‘Parochial Internationalism’: publication in Australia

This paper serves as an introduction and scene-setter to a series of four papers (including this) that examines the different facets of scholarly publication in the area of media and communication (as well as its various cognate disciplines) in the ‘region’ that comprises Australia and New Zealand. The authors of these papers are active members of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), the peak professional and scholarly association of the region, and have all delivered a version of these papers at a plenary panel on ‘Publication in Australia and New Zealand’ at the International Communications Association (ICA) Regional Conference held at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane during 1–3 October 2014. This paper begins by looking at the role ANZCA plays in supporting and mentoring scholars, especially postgraduates or aspiring academics and early-career researchers, towards commencing their publication journey. It then turns its attention towards the globalising strategy of ‘parochial internationalisation’ that has defined much of Australia’s attempt to gain relevance and recognition in the global publications environment. The second part of the paper details the growth trajectory of one of Australia’s oldest and most reputable media and communications journal, Media International Australia, offering insights on how scholars and journal editors might think and operate more strategically in order to thrive in a new and demanding publications era.

Kyle Sandilands: Examining the “Performance of Authenticity” in Chat-Based Radio Programming

Kyle Sandilands: Examining the “Performance of Authenticity” in Chat-Based Radio Programming

Counterculture and Alternative Media in Utopian Contexts: A Slice of Life from the Rainbow Region

Counterculture and Alternative Media in Utopian Contexts: A Slice of Life from the Rainbow Region