Organisation
Western Sydney University
Acronym:
WSU
Conference paper
Twitter free Iran: an evaluation of Twitter's role in public diplomacy and information operations in Iran's 2009 election crisis
This paper examines Twitter's role during Iran's 2009 election crisis using a comparative analysis of Twitter investors, US State Department diplomats, citizen activists and Iranian protestors and paramilitary forces.
Report
A question of balance: principles, contracts and the government-not-for-profit relationship
This report examines the contractual relationship between governments and non-for-profit organisations for the provision of services, particularly employment services.
Discussion paper
The Reconciliation Barometer and the Indigenous imaginary
This paper discusses the findings of a recently released study to ‘measure the progress of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians’ by Reconciliation Australia.
Report
Cultural practices and learning : diversity, discipline and dispositions in schooling
This report considers the relations between ethnicity and the dispositions towards learning necessary for successful participation in the Australian education system. In contrast to common assumptions about the cultural attributes of some ethnic groups, it considers how home and school practices help produce the attributes of learners, how these attributes are embodied as dispositions towards...
Conference paper
Bringing culture into planning and planning into culture
This presentation considers: culture as the domain of ‘traditions’ emphasising continuities; rapid contemporary change with culture in a dynamic state of flux; innovation in culture, not just in the arts; diversity as an engine of productive change; cultural development as asset orientation; and sustainability with the need for ‘cultural futures’ thinking and research.