Communication, creativity and global citizenship

Refereed proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2009

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15 July 2009The 2009 Australian and New Zealand Communications Association conference (ANZCA09), held at QUT in Brisbane from July 8-10, 2009, brought together 242 communications researchers from 20 countries.

The papers from the ANZCA09 conference that are in this collection have been subject to double-blind peer reviewing prior to inclusion in this volume. They bring together contributions across the full range of conference streams including:

• Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication
• Communication and Pedagogy
• Communication Ethics
• Creativity and Communication
• Digital and Social Media
• Disability and Communication
• Entertainment
• Global Media and Communication
• Intercultural Communication
• Journalism and News Media
• Media and Citizenship
• Organisational Communication
• Political Communication
• Public Relations
• Radio-Audio-Sound Research and Practice
• Science and Environmental Communication
• Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Visual Communication

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Following is a full list of papers with links to full text

Introduction to refereed proceedings
Terry Flew

Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication

Balnaves, M. and O'Regan, T.
Comparing Television Ratings Conventions: Australian and American Approaches to Broadcast Ratings

Dana, T. and Kenix, L. J.
Determining Values Depicted in Advertisements: A Study of prime-time Television in New Zealand

Kerr, G., Dickinson, S., Waller, D. and Mortimer, K.
Testing Advertising via New Media: An Exploratory Study of Advertising Practitioner Attitudes

Communication and Pedagogy

Mitchell, M.
Evaluating the effectiveness of an organisational communication assessment using frameworks from cognitive learning theory and authentic assessment

Perkins, S. and Ayodeji, J.
Rehearsing Identities via Online Journals

Petelin, R.
Writing pedagogy: Pluralism required, but rhetoric rules

Communication Ethics

Johnston, J. and Breit, R.
Constructing legal narratives: law, language and the media

Creativity and Communication

McIntyre, P.
Rethinking Communication, Creativity and Cultural Production: Oultining Issues for Media Practice

Sligo, F.
Are New Zealand managers getting less literate and, if so, should we care?

Digital and Social Media

Ben-Harush, O.
Defining Friendworks; Communication perspective on Social networks Types

Knight, M. and Green, L.
BitTorrents and Family Guy: teenage peer group interactions around a peer-to-peer Internet download community

Holmes, D.
Ritual and Media: the legacies of French Anthropology

Humphreys, S.
The economies within an online social network market. A case study of Ravelry

Self, A.
DITA and the Challenges of Single-Source Article Publishing

Spurgeon, C., Burgess, J., Klaebe, H., McWilliam, K., Tacchi, J., and Tsai, M.
Co-creative Media: Theorising Digital Storytelling as a platform for researching and developing participatory culture

Disability and Communication
Holland, K.
Suicide and the media: identifying some blind spots

Entertainment
Ryan, M.
At Breaking Point? Challenges for Australian Film Policy through the Lens of Genre (horror) Films

Global Media and Communication
Kostic, Z.
The challenge of digital broadcast media: NHK ( The Japanese broadcasting corporation), satellite, internet, mobile technologies and the future role of the public broadcasting

Li, M.
Chinese Cyber Nationalism in the Year of Olympics

Li, X.
Representing China by the Australian Public Broadcaster: Evolving or Stereotyped

Potter, A.
Reflecting on changes in children's television consumption: implications for producers and policy makers

Intercultural Communication
Anyanwu, C.
Socioeconomic benefits of Migration: African Migrants in Australia and Media Representation

Cools, C.
Challenges of language and communication for intercultural couples living in Finland

Khorana, S.
Diasporic Art: Writing/Visualising Back and Writing/Visualising into Being

Leong, S.
The Hindraf Saga: Media and Citizenship in Malaysia

Interpersonal And Small Group Communication
Dare, J.
Women and Friendship: The Role of Communication Technologies in Sustaining Critical Connections

Nelson, L. and Balnaves, M.
RSVP and the role of computer-mediated communication and digital personae in social media

Tananuraksakul, N.
Perceptual Power behind Non-Mediated Communication in an Australian Context

Journalism and News Media
Cinque, T.
A New Screen Face for Public Service Broadcasting

Comrie, M.
The People's Voice? The One News Election Road trip 08

Daniel, A., Flew, T., and Spurgeon, C.
Consumer Trends in Digital News and Information in Australia

Duffield, L.
A news story as big as a doctoral thesis? Deploying journalistic methodology in academic research

Flew, T.
Online Media and User-Created Content: Case Studies in News Media Repositioning in the Australian Media Environment

Hanusch, F.
Taking travel journalism seriously: Suggestions for scientific inquiry into a neglected genre

Meadows, M.
Putting the citizen back into journalism

Nolan, D.
Rethinking Journalism Culture and Authority: Beyond 'Professionalism'

Media and Citizenship
Debrett, M.
Leveraging trust: The politics of accountability and risk taking at the ABC

Hannis, G.
Visual communication in consumer journalism: The supra-textual design of Consumer magazine in New Zealand

Harindranath, R.
Media audiences, public knowledge and democracy: an Indian example

Isakhan, B.
The Early Australian Press and the Middle Eastern 'Other'

Wilken, R.
Figures of Speech: Metaphors in the Mobile Phone Literature

Williamson, D.
"Civic Realism": Documentary and the Unfinished Business of Citizenship

Mobile Communication
Carah, N.
Enjoying Virgin's V festival

Nguyen, A.
The digital divide versus the "digital delay": implications from a forecasting model of online news adoption and use

Wei, D. and Qian, T.
The Mobile Hearth: A Case Study On New Media Usage and Migrant Workers' Social Relationships

Organisational Communication
Bakar, H.A., Mustaffa, C.S. and Mohamad, B.
Dyadic Relationships Quality and Team-Oriented Commitment

Fielden, K.
Hidden Communications, Organisational Borders and Mediation

Fulton, J.
Print journalism and the creative process: journalists and the organisation

Lawson, C.
'Real' police culture - communicating the crime prevention message within the Queensland Police Service

Md Nordin, S., Halib, M., and Ghazali, Z.
The Impact of Formalization and Centralization on Organizational Communication: A Study on a Highway Concessionaire in the Klang Valley, Malaysia

Mills, C.
Making organisational communication meaningful: Reviewing the key features of a model of sensemaking about change communication

Peach, M.
The utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior to foster employee support for organisational change - communication and engagement strategy and proving return-on-investment

Zowislo-Grünewald, N. and Schulz, J.
Can theory guide praxis? - Theoretical considerations and empirical findings on academic research's relevance for the advertising process

Political Communication
Croucher, G.
Framing public services: political communication and the citizen-consumer

Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z.
Extreme Make-Over "Balkan Style": Media Coverage of Radovan Karadzic's Arrest

Kirchhoff, L., Nicolai, T., Bruns, A., and Highfield, T.
Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election

Macnamara, J.
Australian federal government online public consultation trials: local learnings in e-democracy

Moody, K.
Media scepticism, media diets and media landscapes: A consideration of US versus Australian political information environments

Ward, I.
Lobbying as a public affair. PR and politics in Australia

Public Relations
Gill, R.
Building Employee Engagement and Reputation through Storytelling

James, M.
The construction of intended meanings: furthering understanding of the purpose of public relations

McDonald, L. and Widaningrum, W.
Muddy Waters: Lapindo Brantas' Response to the Indonesian Mudflow Crisis

Meyers, N., Hearn, G., Gray, H., and Sanzogni, L.
Codes of Conduct for mobile device use in meetings: An exploratory analysis

Radio - Audio - Sound Research and Practice
Barns, S.
Sydney Sidetracks: Listening in to 'history where it happened' using the ABC's television and radio archives

Dunn, A.
Medium specificity and cross-media production: Developing new narrative paradigms

Langdon, M.
The Melbourne Punk Scene in Australia's Independent Music History

Madsen, V.
Voices-cast: a report on the new audiosphere of podcasting with specific insights for public broadcasting

Richardson, I.
Audile Telepresence: a sonic phenomenology of mobile phones

Vale, J.
Piracy, pianolas and the internet

Science and Environmental Communication
Evans, S.M., Savage, J. and Nunoo, F.K.E.
Giving a voice to young people: the creative use of poetry and song by schoolchildren as a means of promoting effective global citizenship

Holgar, M, Foth, M. and Ferrero-Regis, T.
Communication Fashion as a Communication Medium to Raise Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Practice

Mackie, B.
Health Risk Communication: Reporting of Avian Influenza in New Zealand Newspapers 2002-2008

McGaurr, L.
Putting the Globe in the Sphere: Climate-change Scientists in the Public Sphere

Speech Communication and Rhetoric
Gray, F.E.
Making yourself heard: Oral communication in the global accountancy workplace

Irvine, L.
Orals ain't Orals: How instruction and assessment practices affect delivery choices with prepared student oral presentations

Visual Communication
Valuing Subjectivity In Documentary, Photography and the Media
Da Silva, M.

Justice Denied
Lloyd, D. and Blakely, A.