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Activism and digital culture in Australia

- Rodan, Debbie, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2018
Type: Text , Book
Relation: Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies
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Description: Activists use digital as well as mainstream media tools to attract supporters, advertise their campaigns, and raise awareness of issues in the broader community. Activism and Digital Culture in Australia examines the use of digital tools and culture by Australian and international activist organisations to facilitate public engagement, participation and deliberation in issues and advance social change. In particular the book engages media studies, cultural studies, social theory and various ethical and political philosophical perspectives to examine the use of digital multi-platform tools by activist organisations and advocates for social change to a) disseminate information and raise public awareness; b) invoke, inform and shape public debate through the provision of information and invocation of affect; and c) garner public support (including funding) for issues and for associated social change. Engaging both qualitative and quantitative approaches, these case studies will demonstrate the richness of digital culture for activism and advocacy, examining the use by activist organisations of such digital media tools as apps, blogging, Facebook, RSS, Twitter, and YouTube. The shows that digital culture offers productive mechanisms and spaces for the reshaping of society itself to take more of a participatory role in progressing social change.

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Animals Australia and the challenges of vegan stereotyping

- Rodan, Debbie, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: M/C Journal Vol. 22, no. 2 (2019), p.
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Description: Negative stereotyping of alternative diets such as veganism and other plant-based diets has been common in Australia, conventionally a meat-eating culture (OECD qtd. in Ting). Indeed, meat consumption in Australia is sanctioned by the ubiquity of advertising linking meat-eating to health, vitality and nation-building, and public challenges to such plant-based diets as veganism. In addition, state, commercial enterprises, and various community groups overtly resist challenges to Australian meat-eating norms and to the intensive animal husbandry practices that underpin it. Hence activists, who may contest not simply this norm but many of the customary industry practices that comprise Australia’s meat production, have been accused of promoting a vegan agenda and even of undermining the “Australian way of life”...

Becoming activist : The mediation of consumers in Animals Australia’s Make it Possible campaign

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Media International Australia Vol. 172, no. 1 (2019), p. 48-60
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Description: In 2008, the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, called out animal welfare as Australia’s ‘next great social justice movement’ in 2018; however, public mobilisation around animal welfare is still a contested issue in Australia. The question stands as to how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activism given that animal activism is presented in the public sphere as dampening the economic livelihood of Australia, with some animal activism described as ‘akin to terrorism’. The questions, then, are as follows: how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activist ideals? How to frame and communicate animal activist ideals so that they can come to inform and change the behaviour and self-understandings of mainstream consumers? This article is an investigation into the possible production and mobilisation of animal activists from mainstream consumers through the work of one digital campaign, Make it Possible. Delivered by the peak Australian animal advocacy organisation, Animals Australia, and explicitly targeting the lived experiences and conditions of animals in factory farming, Make it Possible reached nearly 12 million viewers across Australia and has directly impacted on the reported behaviour and self-understandings of over 291,000 Australians to date, as well as impacting policy decisions made by government and industry. More specifically, our interest is to engage a new materialist lens to draw out how this campaign operates to transform consumers into veg*ns (vegans/vegetarians), activists and ethical consumers who materially commit to and live revised beliefs regarding human–animal relations.

Being Australian and the problem of detainees : Petro Georgiou and inclusivity

- Rodan, Debbie, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2006
Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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Description: The plethora of public and political discourses concerned with refugees/detainees in Australia coalesced in 2005 around the private members bill introduced by Petro Georgiou (Member of Parliament for the House of Representatives affiliated with the Liberal Party of Australia) in May 2005. This bill, aimed at reforming Australia’s immigration detention policy, brought about significant changes at the legislative level (June 2005) with regard to Australia’s practices in the mandatory detention of refugees, especially the detention of children and families. These changes were also both prefaced by and led to a considerable amount of public debate in the Australian media. On this basis, 2005 has been a highly significant period with regard to the public sphere discussion of detainees, mandatory detention, and ensuing issues of national inclusivity, exclusivity, and just what it means – and takes – to be Australian. This paper thus aims to unpack part of this public discussion by analyzing letters to the editor devoted to the above issues and published in Australia’s national broadsheet The Australian between January and July 2005. In addition to outlining the major public discourses in use in these letters, this paper also flags the need for a methodology able to consider not only content but its situatedness in and implications for broader socio-political theory. Given the inextricability of such public discourses from broader social and political theories – those concerned, for instance, with identity, representation, difference, democracy, and governmentality – we use here a cross-disciplinary approach that utilises both media and discourse analysis and contemporary political and cultural theory. Consequently this paper is in two key parts. After identifying and examining the discursive positions prevalent in these letters, we then move to analyse their socio-cultural implications, unpacking just how these discursive positions function within and in terms of broader social and political theories.
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Chewing the communal cud: Community deliberation in broadsheet letters and political blogs

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision-making: p. 296-318
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Description: Contending that media users are more than consumers and that the mass media are able to achieve more in the public sphere than simply meet market demand, Mummery and Rodan argue in this chapter that some types of mass media may in fact fulfil public sphere responsibilities.
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Discourses of democracy in the aftermath of 9/11 and other events : Protectivism versus humanitarianism

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 17, no. 4 (2003), p. 433-442
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Description: In responding to the events of 11 September 2001—the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington—George W. Bush announced to the world that democracy itself was under attack, and that such an attack1 represented a threat to democracy. Such an interpretation of these events, along with portraying Western democracy as a victim in need of protection and as ‘good’—and establishing thereby the moral high ground—also represented one of the main discourses in which the Tampa refugees were discussed in Australia, and has continued to be a prominent discourse in public discussion within Australia about the War on Terror, the Bali Bombings and both refugees and detention centres. Drawing on a detailed analysis of letters to the editor published in The Australian in the aftermath of 9/11, this paper seeks to show not only that discussion of the events of 2001 and 2002 has tended to coalesce around two apparently irreconcilable discourses2—that of the aforementioned desire to protect democracy or ‘our way of life’ versus that expressive of a kind of ‘globalized humanitarianism’—but that these discourses are indeed not so much irreconcilable but share a common ground along with common stakes and ends.
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Discursive Australia : Public discussion of refugees in the early twenty-first century

- Rodan, Debbie, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2005
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Sydney : 27th - 28th September, 2004
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Description: This paper interrogates recurring discourses in Australia’s public domain with regards to the issue of refugees and Australianness, and how they have been used to ratify notions of inclusion and exclusion with regards to what being Australian - or indeed being un-Australian - does and should mean. The unpacking of these primary discursive positions will be based on an analysis of the letters to the editor published in both The Australian (Australia’s national newspaper) and The West Australian, covering one key period from 22 January to 28 February 2002 (a period encompassing the Woomera hunger strike).
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Discursive Australia : Refugees, Australianness, and the Australian public sphere

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2007
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Vol. 21, no. 3 (2007), p. 347-360
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Description: The discussion within Australia of events of the last five years, such as 9/11, the Bali Bombing, the Tampa and the Children Overboard affair, Cronulla Riots, as well as the numbers of refugees approaching Australian shores, has typically fallen into a binarized form with public discourses coalescing around calls for either 'protectivism' or 'humanitarianism' (Mummary & Road, 2003). This discursive framework has in turn instantiated an ongoing debate concerning the issue of what it means to be Australian, and who is or should be included or excluded from this national identity, questions which have been particularly contentious in recent years. This project, however, aims to unpack and analyse just one manifestatation of this debate, that carried out in letters to the editor published between 22 January and 28 February 2002 in both The Australian (Australia's national daily broadsheet) and The West Australian (Western Australia's daily broadsheet). The period chosen for this analysis is important for several reasons.
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Doing animal welfare activism everyday : Questions of identity

- Rodan, Debbie, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Rodan, Debbie , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 30, no. 4 (2016), p. 381-396
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Description: Animals Australia focuses on making animal welfare issues visible to consumers so as to direct consumer behaviour and invoke everyday activism, an objective integral to their Make it Possible' campaign. In this paper, we primarily explore the claimed and practised identity of everyday or mainstream animal activists. This is an identity that, whilst partially and communally elaborated and affirmed online (in the online Animals Australia community), is enacted more commonly through personal and familial everyday actions such as shopping, cooking and eating than it is through such public actions as explicitly advocating or demonstrating for better welfare standards for animals involved in factory farming. A discourse analysis was conducted of 2198 posts from October 2013 to January 2014 to analyse contributors' accounts of their feelings (notably their gut reactions) and reasons for pledging, as well as to examine how contributors' accounts of their everyday practices might be understood as the development of a voice for these voiceless animals'. Overall, then, our analysis has shown supporters, participants and/or consumers who support the Make it Possible' campaign self-select into and identify themselves in terms of four overlapping frames: being vegan or vegetarian, shopping for change, personal activism and public activism and advocacy. This paper contributes to the debate concerning intersectional activism within the food activism movement.

Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles

- Cole, Clare, Mummery, Jane, Peck, Blake

Authors: Cole, Clare , Mummery, Jane , Peck, Blake
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Nursing Ethics Vol. 29, no. 7-8 (2022), p. 1553-1561
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Description: There has long been acceptance within healthcare that one of the roles that nurses fulfil is to do with patient advocacy. This has historically been positioned as part of the philosophical and inherent requirements of the nursing profession at large and is supported through shared conceptualisations of the nursing profession. Such conceptualisations are communicated to nursing professionals by way of first their education, and second their professional codes, guidelines and standards for practice. The focus on advocacy is further embedded within patient-centred care frameworks and concepts of the nurse–patient therapeutic relationship. Nurses have also been considered ideally placed to undertake the work of patient advocacy due to the 24/7 nature and intimacy of the care provided. What this means is that nurses are under the impression that that they must be an advocate for their patients through their nursing practice. However, for a fundamental concept of nursing, advocacy is poorly defined, and practices commonly associated with advocacy are undercut by the professionalisation of nursing and other constraints. In addition, nursing standards and frameworks of care are being actively reframed around ideas of empowerment which do not necessarily fit well with those of advocacy. This article thus suggests that it is time to recognise that the work of advocacy is no longer representative of what nurses (can) do in practice, and to explicitly reorient conceptualisations of nurse practice around empowerment. This article will further analyse what this may look like in practice. © The Author(s) 2022.

Engaging Gadamer and qualia for the mot juste of individualised care

- Peck, Blake, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Peck, Blake , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Nursing Inquiry Vol. 26, no. 2 (2019), p. 1-10
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Description: The cornerstone of contemporary nursing practice is the provision of individualised nursing care. Sustaining and nourishing the stream of research frameworks that inform individualised care are the findings from qualitative research. At the centre of much qualitative research practice, however, is an assumption that experiential understanding can be delivered through a thematisation of meaning which, it will be argued, can lead the researcher to make unsustainable assumptions about the relations of language and meaning-making to experience. We will show that an uncritical subscription to such assumptions can undermine the researcher's capacity to represent experience at the high level of abstraction consistent with experience itself and to thus inform genuinely individualised care. Instead, using qualia as a touchstone for the possibilities of understanding and representing experience, we trace the ‘designative’ and ‘expressive’ distinction to language in order to raise critical questions concerning both these assumptions and common practices within qualitative research. Following the ‘expressive’ account of language, we foreground in particular the hermeneutic work of Gadamer through which we explore the possibilities for a qualitative research approach that would better seek the mot juste of individual experience and illuminate qualia in order to better inform genuinely individualised care.

Ethics and the development of relationally motivated leadership

- Mummery, Jane, Nolton, Marnie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Nolton, Marnie
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ethics and Leadership Chapter 5 p.51-63
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Description: Neoliberalism would have us believe that we should each be someone who (a) accepts full responsibility for her life achievements and trajectory and is (b) able to rationally weigh choices objectively- consider risks, respond to incentives, etc - in order to maked the decisions that would best fulfil her desires. With this focus on the searching out and seizing opportunities for personal advancement , repsonsibility for success is considered to lie entirely with each individual as does failure. In this chapter -drawing on our combined 15 years plus of experience in teaching in applied ethics, risk management, and governance in Australian higher education institutions at undergraduated and post graduate levels- we wish to examine the process of engaging students in a process of values renegotiation. This is a process, which promotes and supports their shift from the indivualist orientation of neoliberalism to a relational virtues-based understanding of ethics, personal motivation, and leadership.

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Exploring lived experiences of participants in the Intercultural Employment Pathways (IEP) program from 2019 to 2022

- Cooper, Kimberlea, Patil, Tejaswini, Ottmann, Goetz, Williams, Dominic, Mummery, Jane

Authors: Cooper, Kimberlea , Patil, Tejaswini , Ottmann, Goetz , Williams, Dominic , Mummery, Jane
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Technical report
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Description: This report documents research conducted by Federation University in relation to the City of Ballarat Intercultural Employment Pathways (IEP) program from 2019 - 2022. The IEP program aims to enhance social inclusion, employment, and education pathways for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrants in the Ballarat region. The purpose of the research was to explore the lived experiences of migrants who participated in the IEP program to better understand the strengths of the program and propose recommendations for its future. The research was a qualitative study that used a survey, interviews, and a focus group to explore the perspectives of IEP participants and encourage them to share deep and rich accounts of their lived experiences. Overall, 39 migrants involved with the IEP program participated in the research. The findings are grouped into four themes: Connection: The communal nature of the IEP program enabled participants to establish social and professional connections which increased their networking capacity to find gainful employment. Participants valued the networking opportunities created by the IEP program as many felt as though they were ‘starting again’ after migrating to Australia. Culture: The IEP program assisted participants to adapt to Australian norms of job-hunting and workplace culture and to learn practical strategies to utilise in their job application and interview techniques. The IEP program created a broader platform for cultural exchange within the community and can contribute to wider changes in representation and appreciation of diversity. Confidence: The IEP program assisted participants to improve their levels of confidence and feelings of self-worth. The tailored support that is available to each participant enabled them to develop confidence in their abilities and focus upon their strengths. Context: Participants shared experiences of the many challenges and barriers they have faced when looking for meaningful and secure employment in Australia. Understanding these wider experiences provide the context in which the IEP program operates and emphasises its importance in providing valuable assistance to migrants settling in the City of Ballarat.

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