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Item Metadata only 3D information visualisation: an historical perspective(IEEE, 2005) Wyeld, Theodor G.; International Conference on Information Visualisation (9th : 2005 : London, England); School of Humanities : MediaThe use of 3D visualisation of digital information is a recent phenomenon. It relies on users understanding 3D perspectival spaces. Questions about the universal access of such spaces has been debated since its inception in the European Renaissance. Perspective has since become a strong cultural influence in Western visual communication. Perspective imaging assists the process of experimenting by the sketching or modelling of ideas. In particular, the recent 3D modelling of an essentially non-dimensional Cyberspace raises questions of how we think about information in general. While alternate methods clearly exist they are rarely explored within the 3D paradigm (such as Chinese isometry). This paper seeks to generate further discussion on the historical background of perspective and its role in underpinning this emergent field.Item Metadata only 3D remote design collaboration: a pedagogical case study of the cross-cultural issues raised(IEEE, 2007) Wyeld, Theodor G.; Teng-Wen Chang; Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina; International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (11th : 2007 : Melbourne, Vic.); CSCWD 2007; School of Humanities : MediaMuch architectural design work increasingly addresses an international audience. But many designers continue to work in isolation. In practice, however, their work includes international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with their co-collaborators. There are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. The 3D co-located laboratory (3DCollab) described in this paper was used as a cross-cultural exchange platform to address the need for design students to practice collaborating remotely. What the 3DCollab did was to facilitate cross-cultural exchange in a fun and informative environment where learning was constructed and played out in a 3D virtual environment (3DVE). The project involved students across three cooperating institutions: The University of Queensland (Australia); the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan); and, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (Norway). It builds on previous exercises conducted by the authors. As far as the authors of this paper are aware this is the first e-learning application to focus on cross-cultural understanding in a 3DVE.Item Metadata only The 3DCVE as a cross-cultural classroom(2006) Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina; Wyeld, Theodor G.; Chang, T.-W.; Game/Set/Match. Conference (2006 : Delft, Berlageweg, Holland); School of Humanities : MediaItem Metadata only A clever little country?(Unversity of Queensland, 2005) Griffiths, O.; Lealand, G.; Griffiths, Mary; Lealand, G.Item Metadata only A discourse analysis of Chinese and English sales letters in Hong Kong(2006) Cheung, M.; AELFE International Conference (5th : 2006 : Zaragoza, Spain)This study aims to analyse and compare the discourse structures of Chinese sales letters and English sales letters based on an integrated theoretical framework of social discourse analysis (van Dijk, 1997) and genre analysis (Swales, 1990; Bhatia, 1993). The motivation for conducting this study is two-fold. First, while there exists a multitude of studies that compare the syntax and grammar between Chinese and English, very little contrastive analysis has been carried out at the level of text, especially in the realm of persuasive communication. Second, understanding communication across languages is becoming increasingly important in sales promotion, due to the globalization of business. The corpus of this study consists of 160 Chinese and English sales letters, which were randomly selected from a database of over 10,000 sales letters collected from 36 categories of recipients in Hong Kong over a six-month period. The letters chosen originated from 117 companies in Hong Kong, mainland China, and overseas countries. They represent a variety of author styles. Given the letters are written with similar communicative purpose and social function, similarities are found in their move structures across languages, setting aside grammatical constraints. However, a number of differences are identified, and they include, for example, more frequent reference to social issues and less frequent use of pressure tactics in the Chinese letters. These differences can be attributed to the context of situation and to the reader-writer relationship associated with the different corpora. Results of the analysis were verified by 17 specialist informants in the field of sales promotion communication.Item Metadata only A pinch of ethics and a soupçon of home cooking: Soft-selling supermarkets on food television(Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) Lewis, T.; Phillipov, M.; Bradley, P.Item Metadata only A re-evaluation of literature in active and critical audience studies(Monash University, 2009) Budarick, J.Item Metadata only A Sense of Home: two migrant personas during COVID-19(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2023) Barbour, K.; Ali, S.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.Item Metadata only Academic identity and the PLE(PLE Conference, 2012) Barbour, K.; Marshall, P.D.; Personal Learning Environment Conference (11 Jul 2012 - 13 Jul 2012 : Melbourne, Vic.)Item Metadata only Academic persona: the construction of online reputation in the modern academy(Routledge, 2018) Marshall, P.; Barbour, K.; Moore, C.; Lupton, D.; Mewburn, I.; Thomson, P.Abstract not availableItem Metadata only Access and availability of contemporary Australian literature in the People's Republic of China: beyond The Thorn Birds(Beijing University Press, 1998) Pugsley, Peter C.; International Conference on Australian Studies (6th : 1998 : Beijing, China); School of Humanities : MediaItem Restricted Altered states: an essay on communication and movement(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2012) de la Fuente, E.; Budarick, J.; Walsh, M.The concept of mobility seems to be sweeping across the humanities and social sciences. We argue that the close relationship between communication and movement is to some extent independent of specific communication technologies. We demonstrate this through the particular ‘knottings’ of music and physical/imaginative movement. We also suggest that in order to do justice to the complex entanglements of communication and movement, it would pay to re-examine social theories from an age when communication and transportation were not yet fully differentiated. The latter promises to reveal that communication is connection and interchanges/exchanges that impact the senses.Item Metadata only Alternative food politics: from the margins to the mainstream(Routledge, 2019) Phillipov, M.; Kirkwood, K.This is a pivotal time for media and food industries, and this book is essential reading for scholars and students seeking to better understand the futures, possibilities and limits of food politics today.Item Restricted Ambiga Sreenevasan and Malaysian counter-publics(Bloomsbury, 2014) Griffiths, M.; Chinnasamy, S.; Raicheva-Stover, M.; Ibroscheva, E.Item Metadata only An analysis on language in business letters writing: Reflection on course development of business communication(2001) Cheung, M.; International Language in Education Conference (2001 : Hong Kong)Item Metadata only Analyzing the coexistence of emerging transparency and tight political control on Weibo(Taylor and Francis, 2015) Guo, B.; Jiang, Y.The trial of China’s former official Bo Xilai is a significant benchmark for social media’s role in increasing transparency in the Chinese justice system, at least when it comes to the trials of Party officials. In thinking about the correlation between governmentality and the Bo Xilai trial in China, this paper argues that it is problematic and insufficient to equate the conduct of the trial with Western liberalism. The continuous enforcement of Weibo regulation and other types of control in the new media era indeed made the Chinese Government more authoritarian. However, this article argues that the party-state is deliberately taking a number of sophisticated strategies and calculations through moderating and censoring Weibo service to reduce the risks on the controversial issue of the trialItem Metadata only ANZCA (Australia and New Zealand Communication Association) News(Univ Queensland Press, 2006) Anyanwu, J.Item Metadata only ANZCA (Australia and New Zealand Communication Association) News, August 2007(Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, 2007) Anyanwu, J.Item Metadata only ANZCA (Australia and New Zealand Communication Association) News, February 2007(Univ Queensland Press, 2007) Anyanwu, J.Item Open Access APP intracellular domain acts as a transcriptional regulator of miR-663 suppressing neuronal differentiation(Nature Publishing, 2015) Shu, R.; Wong, W.; Ma, Q.H.; Yang, Z.Z.; Zhu, H.; Liu, F.J.; Wang, P.; Ma, J.; Yan, S.; Polo, J.M.; Bernard, C.C.A.; Stanton, L.W.; Dawe, G.S.; Xiao, Z.C.Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is best known for its involvement in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. We have previously demonstrated that APP intracellular domain (AICD) regulates neurogenesis; however, the mechanisms underlying AICD-mediated regulation of neuronal differentiation are not yet fully characterized. Using genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation approaches, we found that AICD is specifically recruited to the regulatory regions of several microRNA genes, and acts as a transcriptional regulator for miR-663, miR-3648 and miR-3687 in human neural stem cells. Functional assays show that AICD negatively modulates neuronal differentiation through miR-663, a primate-specific microRNA. Microarray data further demonstrate that miR-663 suppresses the expression of multiple genes implicated in neurogenesis, including FBXL18 and CDK6. Our results indicate that AICD has a novel role in suppression of neuronal differentiation via transcriptional regulation of miR-663 in human neural stem cells.