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2024-03-18T16:02:02ZWhat’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/140437
Title: What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods
Author: Phillipov, M.; Buddle, E.; McLean, S.; Ankeny, R.
Abstract: Plant-based protein products have recently become more prominent on Australian supermarket shelves. However, despite rapidly increasing interest in meat-free or reduced-meat diets, limited research has explored responses toward these foods. Our research analyses Facebook comments (n = 1384) in response to two ABC News articles that covered the Australian launch of Naturli’s “Minced” product in 2018. Our qualitative analysis generated seven main themes, with comments relatively evenly split between self-declared meat consumers and those who did not eat meat. Our analysis shows that social media comments can provide real-time access to what we term “critical moments” in ongoing debates as well as values, in this case related to meat and meat alternatives. Hence people’s views on contentious topics relating to food are more robust and less open to persuasion than political and industry actors might hope or expect, and alternatives to use of framing approaches are required for any media analysis in domains where conflict is present.
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Published online: 05 Mar 20242024-01-01T00:00:00ZA Sense of Home: two migrant personas during COVID-19
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/139356
Title: A Sense of Home: two migrant personas during COVID-19
Author: Barbour, K.; Ali, S.
Abstract: This article interrogates how the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic influenced the way that we produce online personas as migrants to Australia. By conducting comparative autoethnographic analysis of our online personas built on the social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, we unpack the role of mediated persona performance in connecting to our adopted homes as well as our connection to, and forced separation from, our countries of origin. There is a growing body of research on the impact of COVID-19 on migrants, particularly on forced migrants throughout Europe, and the impact of racism directed at migrants during the early stages of the pandemic. In Australia, scholars considered the role of technology in mediating relationships during lockdowns in 2020. This project broadens the scope of this body of research by looking at migrants who came to Australia with the intention of staying, by looking across platforms, and by considering not only what is shared and why, but what is absent: the ways we were – and are – strategically silent in our online persona performances.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZWomen and Persona Performance
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/139354
Title: Women and Persona Performance
Author: Barbour, K.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZYouth Intimacy on Tumblr
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/138776
Title: Youth Intimacy on Tumblr
Author: Hart, M.
Abstract: I examine young people’s intimate relationships formed on Tumblr. Research has extensively documented how and why adults utilize online dating services to articulate relationships online; however, scholars of this phenomenon have largely overlooked the lived experiences of young people. This article presents the initial findings of a qualitative pilot study in which 10 young male and female Tumblr users participated in hour-long, in-depth, semi-structured, synchronous online interviews via Skype. The initial findings generated by the pilot study suggest that young people are engaging online technologies to practice intimacy and sociality in diverse ways. Responses suggest that young people conceptualize Tumblr as being distinct from existing social network sites (SNS) as a result of its perceived affordances. I con-clude that the ways in which young people engage and date and socialize on Tumblr suggest a rethinking of established contemporary notions of intimacy and community in the digital era.2015-01-01T00:00:00Z