Journal Description
Media International Australia (MIA) is an international peer-reviewed journal founded in 1976 and dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarly research exploring media and communications in all their forms. MIA is inclusive, interdisciplinary, and international in its orientation; it welcomes diverse voices, and new conceptual and methodological approaches. A particular strength of MIA is its feature topics, guest-edited by leading scholars and bringing coherence to the publication of a collection of articles presenting vital research on significant new themes in media and communication. Each issue of the journal consists of a feature topic and a selection of individual articles, as well as book reviews.
The journal is affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Inc (ANZCA). MIA supports Online First publication to make work available as soon as possible and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Journal Feed
- by Emily Booth, Amelia Johns, Anita Harris, Gilbert CaluyaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Young people are often assumed to be competent users of digital platforms; however, today's online environment is flooded with challenges, one of which is misinformation. We examine the social media practices of 14 Australian diaspora youth – a cohort …
- by Catalina Ramírez González, Sònia Parella Rubio, Alisa PetroffMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Amidst the digital transformation that has accelerated gig work globally, this article tackles the digital entrepreneurship experiences of immigrant mothers in Chile, a demographical group uniquely impacted by the digitalization trend and the COVID-19 …
- by Katrin Langton, Emma Jayakumar, Harrison W See, Catherine Archer, Giselle WoodleyMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Parents in Australia today have to make decisions about what counts as appropriate digital media use for their young children in a cultural context characterised by conflicting advice, impractical screen use recommendations and risk-focussed media …
- by Firly Annisa, Kate GrealyMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. This study explores how Indonesian ‘Mumpreneur’ Influencers (influencers) navigate neoliberal precarity and patriarchal gender norms through their work as stay-at-home mum influencers on Instagram. This research combines a qualitative analysis of the …
- by Susan Grantham, Laura Cervi, Manolo IachizziMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. This study explores how political leaders use TikTok to construct and communicate political authenticity through strategies of immediacy, consistency and ordinariness. Through a combined qualitative and quantitative method, we take a case study approach …
- by Caroline Fisher, Sora Park, Janet Fulton, Uwe Dulleck, Terry FlewMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. In a choice-rich media environment, audience perceptions of what is and is not news are not static. However, most of the scholarship about news definitions has been from the perspective of the practitioner. This article takes an audience-centric approach. …
- by Paul DawsonSchool of the Arts and Media, 7800University of New South Wales, AustraliaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the high-profile, years-long, media coverage of former federal government staffer, Brittany Higgins, in the wake of a 2021 television interview in which she recounted her experience of sexual assault in Parliament House. Higgins' …
- by Ryan Thorneycroft, Benjamin Hanckel, Erika K. Smith, Lucy Nicholas6489Western Sydney University, AustraliaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Pornography scholarship is often dominated by discourses surrounding its alleged risks to viewers. Approaching sex and porn through the lens of ‘play’ rather than ‘drama’, this article concentrates on the everyday particularity of porn viewing, where …
- by Rowan Wilken, James Meese, Catherine Middleton, Kieran HegartyMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. The introduction of the fifth generation of mobile standards (5G) has promised faster speeds, greater network capacity and lower latency. 5G has only recently rolled out in many countries, so there is little empirical data on what individual consumers are …
- by Ronnie Scott, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Gabriel Clark, Meg O’Shea, Patrick GrantMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. What kinds of comics were sold and procured from Australia's zine fairs, comics fairs and market days in 2022? The research team for Folio, a comics oral history project, visited Australian zine fairs, comics fairs and market days between February and …
- by Jaelea Skehan, Ross Tynan, Renate Thienel, Jane Pirkis, Myfanwy Maple, Brian KellyMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. This study examined whether Australian media professionals agree with guidelines for reporting suicide (Mindframe guidelines) and the factors that may influence their level of agreement. Participants completed an online survey to assess their level of …
- by Ying Zhu, Yali Yang12430Northeast Agricultural University, ChinaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. In 2020, China witnessed its own “Year of the Podcast.” Podcast, an auditory medium that dominates the Western market, is once again enjoying a “renaissance” in China after years of silence. This article begins by tracing the development trajectory of …
- by Adam Fish, Joshua Zeunert7800University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. As a key component of decarbonisation, many nations are undergoing an energy transition from fossil fuels to solar, wind, and other renewable energies. This is creating landscape transformations in ways prior energy regimes did not. Scholars, …
- by Claire Konkes, Alana MannMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print.
- by Alexandra Wake, Sharon SmithSchool of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Climate activists have increasingly used hunger strikes to gather media attention to perceived inaction on the issue; however, there is little guidance for journalists about how they should approach such a story. Applying social responsibility theory to …
- by David J Paterno5376RMIT University, AustraliaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Engaging and guiding the public to accept new, green fuels carries manifold challenges for communication. This article employs interview data to explore how communications professionals in the Australian energy sector speak about communicative aspects of …
- by Anna Broinowski, Fiona R. Martin4334The University of Sydney, AustraliaMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Australian debates about how to regulate deepfake video have, to date, largely been shaped by STEM agendas for generative artificial intelligence (AI) policy and public fears about disinformation intensification. As the federal government consults on AI …
- by Emma Mesikämmen, Lisa Waller, Brian BurkettMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. In January 2019, the South Australian Government released the report of its Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin, which investigated the implementation of the Basin Plan and allegations of water theft in upstream states. This study analyses the …
- by Usha Sundar Harris156392University of Central Asia, KyrgyzstanMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Participatory environmental communication (PEC) offers a way of engaging in communication by inviting the participation of communities and their ways of knowing. As a process-oriented approach, PEC enables communities to use local knowledge and design …
- by Susan Kerrigan, Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Alysson WatsonMedia International Australia, Ahead of Print. Using a creative ecosystems approach, this paper demonstrates that journalism is deeply embedded in the interconnected ecosystem of publishing and, at a higher level, the creative industries. Analysis of data from seven regional areas in New South Wales …