Spirit-music unbound: Romanticism and print politics in Australian women's poetry 1830-1905

This thesis presents a re-mapping of Australian poetic tradition to reflect the presence of colonial women poets. The research recovers a wide range of neglected poetry, offering a new way of reading these important poets as politic and transnational, particularly through the significance of newspaper authorship and international women’s poetry.

The gendered world of sports reporting in the Australian print media

The mainstream news media have long been charged by feminist and critical media scholars of largely excluding women from its sports coverage, and concomitantly highlighting the ongoing relative absence of female sports reporters. With the 2012 London Olympic Games just past, it is timely to reflect on two areas of sports journalism that recieve sparse scholarly interest from the majority of Australian journalism academics, as technology issues and the future of journalism debates take precedence. The Olympics typically generate more media exposure for female athletes than usual, nevertheless, it remains that there are particular types of 'gender appropriate' events that attract mainstream news media attention during the Games, and other sporting events in general. This paper analyses a month of pre-Olympic sports coverage and general sports coverage in two major Australian newspapers, finding that while pre-Olympic coverage includes more women's sport than in general sport, sportsmen and men's sport remains highly privileged in both areas. The fact that horseracing recieves three times more media coverage than women's sports in this study clearly identifies sportswomen's marginalised status. The paper also maps the number of female sports reporters at these two newspapers, and concludes with some insights into a newsroom culture that typically rejects women as athletes and as sports reporters

The unstable print: Material challenges in printmaking and the moving image

The past few years have seen an emergence of printmakers motivated by moving-image technology to use print as performative creative practice; in film and animation, as installation and in various processes of thinking and production. Notions of movement and change that could be said to identify much of our contemporary world reflect the interests of a number of printmakers who utilize printmaking characteristics of multiplicity and reproduction by integrating the digital and the handmade within the moving-image. There seems to be a restlessness by some artists who wish to explore an unbounded, experimental approach to printmaking; perhaps it is a natural progression for printmakers to relate their processes of thinking and production to concepts of frame-by-frame production – to additive and subtractive methods, multiple imagery and the reproduced or copy. But what happens when printmaking that has entered the realm of multimedia technology returns to the physical, material print? This paper presents and discusses printmaking as moving image, and in particular the practice of printmaking that utilizes the copy and multiplicity while exploiting qualities of change through, for example, organic non-archival materials. Drawing from my own print projects and practice as well as the work of other Australian printmakers, the paper asks: can the physical print convincingly perform, not only represent, movement and change as analog experience through its materiality, and how is it to be valued within printmaking conventions concerned with longevity and permanence?

PDA, Ebooks, Print Books Usage and Expenditures: Knowledge Ecosystem Remix

This article presents data-rich findings of a comprehensive follow-up study on the patron-driven/demand-driven ebook acquisitions (DDA) plan chronicled in two prior articles from the DDA ebook plan's October 2011 inception. Into the third fiscal year, print vs. ebook usage preferences have begun to emerge, and the results broken out by discipline are presented.

Homens autores de violência contra a mulher: a versão da mídia impressa paraense e as contribuições para a enfermagem

Neste estudo realizou-se a análise do perfil dos homens autores de violência cometida contra a mulher a partir de notícias sobre violência identificadas no jornal O Liberal, do Estado do Pará, sugerindo possíveis estratégias de enfermagem para o enfretamento do problema. Trata-se de um estudo do tipo exploratório de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa utilizando-se o método estatístico e análise de conteúdo de Bardin (2011). Foi desenvolvido na Fundação Cultural do Pará Tancredo Neves (CENTUR), onde se observou 2.190 exemplares do jornal O Liberal, destes analisou-se 211 notícias sobre violência conjugal no Estado do Pará, das quais, 85 foram publicadas no período de 01 de Janeiro de 2004 a 31 de Julho de 2006 (antes da Lei Maria da Penha), e 126 foram publicadas de 01 de Agosto de 2006 a 31 de Dezembro de 2008 (Após a criação da Lei Maria da Penha). Na abordagem quantitativa, verificou-se que os homens que cometem violência contra a mulher são seus companheiros com 25,88% (antes da Lei Maria da Penha) e 48,41% (depois da Lei Maria da Penha); têm idade entre 23 e 33 anos com 27,06% (antes da Lei Maria da Penha) e 23,81% (depois da Lei Maria da Penha); exercem atividades informais ou de nível pouco especializado, como agricultor 2,35% (antes da Lei Maria da Penha) e pedreiro com 6,35% (após a Lei Maria da Penha). Apresentam antecedentes criminais por agressão física (3,53%) correspondente aos anos anteriores à criação da Lei Maria da Penha e tráfico de drogas com um percentual de 3,97%, referente aos anos que sucedem a Lei Maria da Penha. As discussões com taxas de 24,71% (antes da Lei Maria da Penha) e 27,78% (após a Lei Maria da Penha) representam o principal fator para agressão e/ou morte da mulher. A violência física é a mais significativa com percentuais de 89,4% (antes da criação da lei Maria da Penha) e 77,78% (após a criação da Lei). Na abordagem qualitativa foram identificadas cinco categorias temáticas: A violência contra a mulher como um fenômeno complexo; A construção da identidade do homem autor da violência cometida contra a mulher; Principais fatores que levam os homens a cometerem violência contra as parceiras; Aplicabilidade da Lei nº 11.340/2006 segundo o jornal O Liberal; Formas de referenciar os autores da violência. Por conseguinte, a prevenção da violência contra a mulher não depende exclusivamente do seu empoderamento, mas deve incluir transformações por parte do autor da violência. Dessa forma, o enfermeiro tem papel fundamental no cuidado a este homem, pois ao conjugar esforços com outros profissionais encontra suporte para atuar no processo de educação em saúde junto aos autores de violência e suas famílias.

Representations of workplace psychological harassment in print news media

OBJECTIVE: To analyze discourses on workplace psychological harassment in print media. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES: Documental study on workplace psychological harassment that analyzed news stories published in three major newspapers of the State of Sao Paulo (southeastern Brazil) between 1990 and 2008. Discourse analysis was performed to identify discursive practices that reflect the phenomenon of psychological harassment in today's society, explanations for its occurrence and impact on workers' health. RESULT ANALYSIS: This theme emerged in the media through the dissemination of books, academic research production and laws. It was initially published in general news then in jobs and/or business sections. Discourses on compensation and precautionary business practices and coping strategies are widespread. Health-related aspects are foregone under the prevailing money-based rationale. Corporate cultures are permissive regarding psychological harassment and conflicts are escalated while working to achieve goals and results. Indifference, embarrassment, ridicule and demean were common in the news stories analyzed. CONCLUSIONS: The causal explanations of workplace harassment tend to have a psychological interpretation with emphasis on individual and behavioral characteristics, and minimizing a collective approach. The discourses analyzed trivialized harassment by creating caricatures of the actors involved. People apprehend its psychological content and stigmatization which contributes to making workplace harassment an accepted practice and trivializing work-related violence.

Referencing geostrophic velocities using ADCP data at 24.5 ºN

Diploma de Estudios Avanzados

Referencing geostrophic velocities using ADCP data at 24.5°N (North Atlantic)

[EN] Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) have proven to be a useful oceanographic tool in the study of ocean dynamics. Data from D279, a transatlantic hydrographic cruise carried out in spring 2004 along 24.5°N, were processed, and lowered ADCP (LADCP) bottom track data were used to assess the choice of reference velocity for geostrophic calculations. The reference velocities from different combinations of ADCP data were compared to one another and a reference velocity was chosen based on the LADCP data. The barotropic tidal component was subtracted to provide a final reference velocity estimated by LADCP data. The results of the velocity fields are also shown. Further studies involving inverse solutions will include the reference velocity calculated here.