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This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring... more
This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring they ...
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From a study of entertainment history it is possible to identify a number of characteristics in the aesthetic system of entertainment. Good entertainment is vulgar. It has a story. Seriality is valued, as is adaptation. Good entertainment... more
From a study of entertainment history it is possible to identify a number of characteristics in the aesthetic system of entertainment. Good entertainment is vulgar. It has a story. Seriality is valued, as is adaptation. Good entertainment has a happy ending. It is interactive, fast, loud and spectacular. It provokes a strong emotional response in the consumer. And it is fun. I discuss all of these points in detail below.
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‘Community standards’ is an important concept in the regulation of pornography in the offline world but it translates awkwardly to an online pornosphere where communities are not geographically bound and can exist in reference to a... more
‘Community standards’ is an important concept in the regulation of pornography in the offline world but it translates awkwardly to an online pornosphere where communities are not geographically bound and can exist in reference to a sexual lifestyle, orientation or fetishism. Nevertheless we find substantial ‘community’ agreement across most liberal democracies in favour of the prohibition of non-consensual sexual materials, especially child sexual abuse materials. However in relation to materials where various communities disagree about their acceptability – for example, BDSM – we suggest that government attempts to prevent access always fail. Better approaches are improved education and signposting.
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This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which... more
This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which they have a personal interest. But they are also aware of the relationship between their own favourites and wider accounts of Australian television history, and negotiate between these two positions. Most interviewees acknowledged Australian television’s links with British and American programming, but also felt that Australian television is distinctive. They argued that Australian television history is ignored in a way that isn’t true for the UK or the US. Several also argued that Australian television has had a ‘naïve’ nature that has allowed it to be more experimental.
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Who watches pornography in Australia? If you listen to public debates about the genre the answer is clear – it’s children. Children are accessing pornography on smartphones (Murray and Tin 2011). Children are taking ‘lewd’ photographs of... more
Who watches pornography in Australia? If you listen to public debates about the genre the answer is clear – it’s children. Children are accessing pornography on smartphones (Murray and Tin 2011). Children are taking ‘lewd’ photographs of themselves, creating their own pornography (Nelligan and Etheridge 2011). Indigenous Australian children must be protected by banning pornography (the Age 2011). Pornographic magazines are placed where children can see them (O'Rourke 2011). Exposure to pornography is damaging children (Sundstrom 2011). The Australian Government insists that the Internet must be filtered to protect children from pornography (Collerton 2010). And if indeed any adults are watching pornography in Australia, then it’s child pornography (MacDonald 2011; Ralston and Howden 2011).
In story after story, public debate about pornography focuses on children as its audience. There is no suggestion that children are numerically the largest audience of pornography in Australia. But emphatically the suggestion is that children are the most important audience to be taken into account when thinking about the genre.
In story after story, public debate about pornography focuses on children as its audience. There is no suggestion that children are numerically the largest audience of pornography in Australia. But emphatically the suggestion is that children are the most important audience to be taken into account when thinking about the genre.
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How do adults understand youth? How do their conceptions inform interventions into young lives or involve young people's experiences? This volume tackles these questions by exploring adults' ideas about youth.
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studying porn consumers as fans supports useful intellectual moves for arguments in both fan studies and porn studies. A problem for fan studies is that as its object of study has expanded to include a range... more
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studying porn consumers as fans supports useful intellectual moves for arguments in both fan studies and porn studies. A problem for fan studies is that as its object of study has expanded to include a range of behaviors beyond the most obviously positive and productive the question has arisen “Who isn’t a fan?". A problem for studies of porn studies is that dominant academic approaches to studying pornography consumption have favored models of consumers as agentless, i.e., addicts or objects of media effects. Studying porn fans addresses both these problems by returning our attention to the agency of porn consumers. Fan studies is defined as the study of agentic cultural consumption, this is neither tautological nor unimportant, but continues to provide a robust and meaningful project for academic research. With this insight in place, this chapter considers some examples of porn fandom, including collecting practices, taxonomizing, evaluation practices, and community building.
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This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia.
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This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which... more
This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which they have a personal interest. But they are also aware of the relationship between their own favourites and wider accounts of Australian television history, and negotiate between these two positions. Most interviewees acknowledged Australian television's links with British and American programming, but also felt that Australian television is distinctive. They argued that Australian television history is ignored in a way that isn't true for the UK or the US. Several also argued that Australian television has had a 'naïve' nature that has allowed it to be more experimental.
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Roger Horrocks is a middle-aged heterosexual family man coming to terms with his masculinity. Of course, this fact in itself does not provide good reason for criticising his latest book, Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular... more
Roger Horrocks is a middle-aged heterosexual family man coming to terms with his masculinity. Of course, this fact in itself does not provide good reason for criticising his latest book, Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture. One would not wish to be accused of the 'heterophobia' which the author attacks in 'gay and lesbian studies' (13). But as Andy Medhurst has argued, authorship is an issue which poststructuralist critical theory must still take seriously. There is, in his formulation, 'that special thrill' for gay readers in knowing that an author of a favourite text is homosexual (Medhurst, 1991:197). So it may be that there is a concomitantly 'special unthrill' that comes from knowing that an author is a sensitive new age guy determined to defend and reconstruct heterosexual masculinity.
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This paper challenges recent fairy tales'-]simplistic and reassuring teleological narratives of moral change-which move our community from being 'lesbian and gay' to being 'queer'. Through an exploration of one particular 'lesbian and... more
This paper challenges recent fairy tales'-]simplistic and reassuring teleological narratives of moral change-which move our community from being 'lesbian and gay' to being 'queer'. Through an exploration of one particular 'lesbian and gay'-the textualised 'lesbian and gay community' constructed by community newspapers in Australia-I suggest that such attempts at distinction, in proposing a linear and teleological movement from bad to good practice, in fact essentialise and dehistoricise these terms. The 'lesbian and gay' of the papers' 'lesbian and gay community' proves in fact to exhibit many of the qualities which 'queer' theorists have claimed for the later term. Such a project of tracing the historical textual manifestations of 'lesbian and gay' problematicises the essentialism necessary in making statements in the form, 'lesbian and gay was but queer is. © 1997 Journals Oxford Ltd.
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© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the... more
© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought the material should be contained within a locked down, stand-alone app – otherwise it might be seen by children who are too young, and/or young people might misunderstand the messages. We argue that the difference in approach represented by these two sets of opinions represents a fundamental stumbling block for attempts to reach young people with digital sexual health materials, which can be understood through the prism of different cultural forms – education versus entertainment.
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In interdisciplinary investigations into the relationships between pornography and its audiences, the issue of how to define the object of study is more complex than in studies situated within a single discipline. A Delphi panel of 38... more
In interdisciplinary investigations into the relationships between pornography and its audiences, the issue of how to define the object of study is more complex than in studies situated within a single discipline. A Delphi panel of 38 leading pornography researchers from a wide range of disciplines was asked about various topics, including the definition of pornography. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of two rounds of survey responses suggested two different and-at first sight-incompatible definitions operating. The first was "Sexually explicit materials intended to arouse." The second was a culturally relative definition suggesting pornography has no innate characteristics. This technical report suggests that we should encourage researchers to choose which definition they want to use in a self-reflective way depending on the needs of the project, so long as they make it explicit and justify their decision.
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In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function.
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Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about pornography today. What is it? For whom is it produced? What sorts of sexualities does it... more
Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about pornography today. What is it? For whom is it produced? What sorts of sexualities does it help produce? Why should we study it, and what should be the most urgent issues when we do? What does it mean when we talk about pornography as violence? What could it mean if we discussed pornography through frameworks of consent, self-determination and performance?
This book places the arguments from conservative and radical anti-porn activists against the challenges coming from a new generation of feminist and queer porn performers and educators. Combining sensitive and detailed discussion of case studies with careful attention to the voices of those working in pornography, it provides scholars, activists and those hoping to find new ways of understanding sexuality with the first overview of the histories and futures of pornography
This book places the arguments from conservative and radical anti-porn activists against the challenges coming from a new generation of feminist and queer porn performers and educators. Combining sensitive and detailed discussion of case studies with careful attention to the voices of those working in pornography, it provides scholars, activists and those hoping to find new ways of understanding sexuality with the first overview of the histories and futures of pornography
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Introduction: Entertainment and Media/Cultural/Communication/Etc Studies Part I: What is Entertainment? Chapter 1. The aesthetic system of entertainment: pornography as case study Chapter 2. Crime as entertainment Chapter 3. Toying with... more
Introduction: Entertainment and Media/Cultural/Communication/Etc Studies Part I: What is Entertainment? Chapter 1. The aesthetic system of entertainment: pornography as case study Chapter 2. Crime as entertainment Chapter 3. Toying with culture: the rise of the action figure and the changing face of 'children's' entertainment Chapter 4. Towards an understanding of Australian genre cinema and entertainment: beyond the limitations of 'Ozploitation' discourse Part II: The Institutions of Entertainment Chapter 5. The borders that law sets on entertainment Chapter 6. Music supervisors in the Australian entertainment film industry Chapter 7. Explaining Pathe's global dominance in the pre-Hollywood film industry Part III: Entertainment and Its Audiences Chapter 8. The "good" fans and "bad" consumers of football Chapter 9. Loyalty and the ritualistic consumption of entertainment Part IV: Entertainment Education Chapter 10. Teaching entertainment at Universities Chapter 11. Top Gear, Top Journalism: Three lessons for political journalists from the world's most popular TV show Chapter 12. Transmedia storytelling and entertainment: an annotated syllabus
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This report outlines the findings from a project that developed and tested an innovative methodology for using social media entertainment to reach young men with information about healthy sexual development. The project used an... more
This report outlines the findings from a project that developed and tested an innovative methodology for using social media entertainment to reach young men with information about healthy sexual development. The project used an entertainment-education approach, evaluating the use of digitally-distributed comedy videos to reach young men with this information. The research focused on young, straight-identifying men, who are an underserved group in sexual health interventions (McKee, Walsh & Watson, 2014), contributing to efforts to address increasing rates of STIs among young people in Queensland (Queensland Health, 2016).
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Both from the point of view of the experiences of different groups of students, and also with respect to the form that education about sexuality, sex, and relationships should take, education and sexuality raises complex questions and... more
Both from the point of view of the experiences of different groups of students, and also with respect to the form that education about sexuality, sex, and relationships should take, education and sexuality raises complex questions and provokes heated―sometimes furious―debate. This four-volume collection offers an authoritative overview of key issues within this rapidly developing field. Under the editorship of Peter Aggleton (editor-in-chief of the international journal, Sex Education), the collection covers a wide range of contemporary issues and concerns, including: the sexualities curriculum; ‘politics and pleasure’; classroom processes and dynamics; sexual and gender diversity in the classroom; gender and sexual violence in schools and colleges; and bullying, victimization and abuse. Special attention is also given to enduring topics, such as the content and context of sexualtiy education; the age at which it should take place; faith and religion; politics and political controve...
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Despite rising levels of safe-sex knowledge in Australia, sexually transmitted infection notifications continue to increase. A culture-centred approach suggests it is useful in attempting to reach a target population first to understand... more
Despite rising levels of safe-sex knowledge in Australia, sexually transmitted infection notifications continue to increase. A culture-centred approach suggests it is useful in attempting to reach a target population first to understand their perspective on the issues. Twenty focus groups were conducted with 89 young people between the ages of 14 and 16 years. Key findings suggest that scientific information does not articulate closely with everyday practice, that young people get the message that sex is bad and they should not be preparing for it and that it is not appropriate to talk about sex. Understanding how young people think about these issues is particularly important because the focus groups also found that young people disengage from sources of information that do not match their own experiences.
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Academics know how to judge a film’s success or failure as a work of art, but how would we judge its success or failure as a piece of entertainment? Using the case study of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) this chapter shows... more
Academics know how to judge a film’s success or failure as a work of art, but how would we judge its success or failure as a piece of entertainment? Using the case study of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) this chapter shows that film is great entertainment because no important character or story beat is missing, it is packed with such beats, and it has plenty of satisfying twists. It promotes strong emotional reactions: a continual interplay of suspense, despair and elation. It has an ending that is both happy and satisfying. And it is fun – particularly in its performances. It is important to take Hitchcock seriously as an entertainer – this chapter demonstrates how to value his films for that reason.
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This paper intervenes in critical discussions about the representation of homosexuality. Rejecting the 'manifest content' of films, it turns to cultural history to map those public discourses which close down the ways in which... more
This paper intervenes in critical discussions about the representation of homosexuality. Rejecting the 'manifest content' of films, it turns to cultural history to map those public discourses which close down the ways in which films can be discussed. With relation to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, it examines discussions of the film in Australian newspapers (both queer and mainstream) and finds that while there is disagreement about the interpretation to be made of the film, the terms within which those interpretations can be made are quite rigid. A matrix based on similarity, difference and value provides a series of positions and a vocabulary (transgression, assimilation, positive images and stereotypes) through which to make sense of this film. The article suggests that this matrix, and the idea that similarity and difference provide a suitable axis for making sense of homosexual identity, are problematic in discussing homosexual representation.
There has been a tension in Cultural Studies between those authors who see fun as important; and those who see it as a distraction. This tension has been played out around the concepts of amusement, distraction, pleasure, celebration,... more
There has been a tension in Cultural Studies between those authors who see fun as important; and those who see it as a distraction. This tension has been played out around the concepts of amusement, distraction, pleasure, celebration, playfulness and desire. I think that fun is important. As we move from Cultural Studies to Cultural Science, I want to retain a focus on fun.
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studying porn consumers as fans supports useful intellectual moves for arguments in both fan studies and porn studies. A problem for fan studies is that as its object of study has expanded to include... more
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studying porn consumers as fans supports useful intellectual moves for arguments in both fan studies and porn studies. A problem for fan studies is that as its object of study has expanded to include a range of behaviors beyond the most obviously positive and productive the question has arisen “Who isn’t a fan?". A problem for studies of porn studies is that dominant academic approaches to studying pornography consumption have favored models of consumers as agentless, i.e., addicts or objects of media effects. Studying porn fans addresses both these problems by returning our attention to the agency of porn consumers. Fan studies is defined as the study of agentic cultural consumption, this is neither tautological nor unimportant, but continues to provide a robust and meaningful project for academic research. With this insight in place, this chapter considers some examples of porn fandom, including collecting practices, taxonomizing, evaluation practices, and community building.
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This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by... more
This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring they ..
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THE 'INDIGENOUS PUBLIC SPHERE' 1. STUBBIE-TRUTH: JOURNALISM, MEDIA, CULTURAL STUDIES AND AN ETHICS OF READING 4. THE MEETING IS THE POLITY': THE NATIONAL MEDIA FORUM 7. MAPPING THE INDIGENOUS 'MEDIASPHERE' BIBLIOGRAPHY
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In interdisciplinary investigations into the relationships between pornography and its audiences, the issue of how to define the object of study is more complex than in studies situated within a single discipline. A Delphi panel of 38... more
In interdisciplinary investigations into the relationships between pornography and its audiences, the issue of how to define the object of study is more complex than in studies situated within a single discipline. A Delphi panel of 38 leading pornography researchers from a wide range of disciplines was asked about various topics, including the definition of pornography. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of two rounds of survey responses suggested two different and—at first sight—incompatible definitions operating. The first was “Sexually explicit materials intended to arouse.” The second was a culturally relative definition suggesting pornography has no innate characteristics. This technical report suggests that we should encourage researchers to choose which definition they want to use in a self-reflective way depending on the needs of the project, so long as they make it explicit and justify their decision.
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This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a... more
This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought the material should be contained within a locked down, stand-alone app – otherwise it might be seen by children who are too young, and/or young people might misunderstand the messages. We argue that the difference in approach represented by these two sets of opinions represents a fundamental stumbling block for attempts to reach young people with digital sexual health materials, which can be understood through the prism of different cultural forms – education versus entertainment.
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Bent TV is a gay and lesbian television community production group in Australia that makes programs for broadcast on the Melbourne Community Television (MCT) channel UHF-31. Bent TV encountered many problems in its inception: an unskilled... more
Bent TV is a gay and lesbian television community production group in Australia that makes programs for broadcast on the Melbourne Community Television (MCT) channel UHF-31. Bent TV encountered many problems in its inception: an unskilled volunteer workforce, lack of resources, and how to address and define the community whom they were representing.
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As part of an ARC Discovery project to write a history of Australian television from the point of view of audiences, I looked for Australian television fan communities. It transpired that the most productive communities exist around... more
As part of an ARC Discovery project to write a history of Australian television from the point of view of audiences, I looked for Australian television fan communities. It transpired that the most productive communities exist around imported programming like the BBC's Doctor Who. This program is an Australian television institution, and I was therefore interested in finding out whether it should be included in an audience-centred history of Australian television. Research in archives of fan materials showed that the program has been made distinctively Australian through censorship and scheduling practices. There are uniquely Australian social practices built around it. Also, its very Britishness has become part of its being — in a sense — Australian. Through all of this, there is a clear awareness that this Australian institution originates somewhere else — that for these fans Australia is always secondary, relying on other countries to produce its myths for it, no matter how mu...
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In 2008, the Australian federal Senate held an Inquiry into the Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media Environment. I made a submission to this Inquiry, noting that in public debate about this topic a number of quite distinct... more
In 2008, the Australian federal Senate held an Inquiry into the Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media Environment. I made a submission to this Inquiry, noting that in public debate about this topic a number of quite distinct issues, with distinct aetiologies, were collapsed together. These included: child pornography; children being targeted by any form of marketing; young people becoming sexually active; sexual abuse of children; raunch culture; protecting children from any sexualised material in the media; and body image disorders. I suggested that commentators had collapsed these issues together because the image of the helpless child is a powerful one for critics to challenge undesirable aspects of contemporary culture. The result of many different ideological viewpoints all using the same argument — that the forms of culture they didn't like were damaging children — gives the impression that there is no element of culture today that isn't (somebody claims)...
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Different archives of television material construct different versions of Australian national identity. There exists a Pro-Am archive of Australian television history materials consisting of many individual collections. This archive is... more
Different archives of television material construct different versions of Australian national identity. There exists a Pro-Am archive of Australian television history materials consisting of many individual collections. This archive is not centrally located nor clearly bounded. The collections are not all linked to each other, nor are they aware of each other, and they do not claim to have a
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Cameron, Verhoeven and Court have noted that many screen producers do not see their tertiary education as being beneficial to their careers. We hypothesise that universities traditionally have not trained students in producing skills... more
Cameron, Verhoeven and Court have noted that many screen producers do not see their tertiary education as being beneficial to their careers. We hypothesise that universities traditionally have not trained students in producing skills because of the division of labour between arts and business faculties, and because their focus on art rather than entertainment has downplayed the importance of producing. This article presents a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) whole-of-program evaluation of a new cross-faculty Bachelor of Entertainment Industries degree at QUT, devoted to providing students with graduate attributes for producing, including creative skills (understanding story, the aesthetics of entertainment, etc.), business skills (business models, finance, marketing, etc.) and legal skills (contracts, copyright, etc.). Stakeholder evaluations suggest that entertainment producers are highly supportive of this new course.
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There are societal concerns that looking at pornography has adverse consequences among those exposed. However, looking at sexually explicit material could have educative and relationship benefits. This article identifies factors... more
There are societal concerns that looking at pornography has adverse consequences among those exposed. However, looking at sexually explicit material could have educative and relationship benefits. This article identifies factors associated with looking at pornography ever or within the past 12 months for men and women in Australia, and the extent to which reporting an "addiction" to pornography is associated with reported bad effects. Data from the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR2) were used: computer-assisted telephone interviews (CASIs) completed by a representative sample of 9,963 men and 10,131 women aged 16 to 69 years from all Australian states and territories, with an overall participation rate of 66%. Most men (84%) and half of the women (54%) had ever looked at pornographic material. Three-quarters of these men (76%) and more than one-third of these women (41%) had looked at pornographic material in the past year. Very few respondents rep...
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This paper presents the findings of a research project that was set up to establish haw well Gibber, a street magazine set up in Perth in 1994, effectively provides a 'voice' for its canstituency -'young people marginalised by... more
This paper presents the findings of a research project that was set up to establish haw well Gibber, a street magazine set up in Perth in 1994, effectively provides a 'voice' for its canstituency -'young people marginalised by society'.
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Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how... more
Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works. Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The Entertainment Industries are a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of evolving businesses that openly monitor evolving cultural trends and work within them. The producers of entertainment – central to that practice– are the new artists. They understand audiences and combine creative, business and legal skills in order to produce cultural products that cater to them. Entertainment Industries describes the characteristics of entertainment, the systems that produce it, and the role of producers and audiences in its development, as well as explaining the importance of this area of study, and how it might be better integrated into Universities.
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This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which... more
This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which they have a personal interest. But they are also aware of the relationship between their own favourites and wider accounts of Australian television history, and negotiate between these two positions. Most interviewees acknowledged Australian television’s links with British and American programming, but also felt that Australian television is distinctive. They argued that Australian television history is ignored in a way that isn’t true for the UK or the US. Several also argued that Australian television has had a ‘naive’ nature that has allowed it to be more experimental.