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Alternative title: Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture
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y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 38 no. 4 2024 29119649 2024 periodical issue

'This special issue started years ago as part of a collective reading group on the public sphere with colleagues at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. A significant portion of our initial time was dedicated to understanding Jurgen Habermas’ (1989 [1962]) foundational contributions, which established the basis for a wide-ranging and complex field of study. This field spans social and political theory, media and communication studies, sociology, and philosophy. Since then, scholars from diverse disciplines have responded to and critiqued Habermas’ concept, contributing to the development and refinement of its analytical potential by challenging the implicit normativity of Habermas’ initial notion. These critical reactions have further enriched the theoretical landscape by expanding its scope and applications. One point on which Habermas’ initial work was opened significantly related to the exclusionary nature of the historical practice described by Habermas by exposing the historical situatedness and specificity of his concept of the public sphere. (Jesse van Amelsvoort  & Margriet van der Waal)

y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 38 no. 1 2024 28202296 2024 periodical issue

'This special issue emerges from a much-deferred symposium in December 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic, that took place, like so much in the Anthropocene, in a strained atmosphere of both anxiety and hope. While the symposium unfolded on-line – we had hope, but not wild optimism – it was in dialogue with an exhibition of Nicole’s landscape photography, Deerubbin at Dawn: River lives on the Hawkesbury, that was firmly located in situ. The show, part of Sydney’s annual Head On Festival of photography, took place at an art gallery not half an hour’s train ride from the river. This council-run arts centre aimed to display the work of locals and art which represented their neighbourhood. The exhibition was programmed, no doubt, with a sense that it would speak to the affection of local residents for the waterway that flanks Hornsby Shire, passing through unceded Guringai, Garigal, Dharug and Darkinjung land.' (Introduction)

y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 37 no. 3 2023 27108025 2023 periodical issue
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y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 37 no. 1 2023 26607992 2023 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 36 no. 6 2022 26607477 2022 periodical issue 'This special section draws on research being carried out on a significant though largely hidden archive of multicultural writing held at Deakin University – the Australian Multicultural Collection (AMC)—established in 1991 by literary and cultural theorist Sneja Gunew. The goal of the AMC was to support research of multicultural groups with connections to Australia, with an emphasis on diasporic writers, artists, and interdisciplinary creatives living in Australia at the time, forming ‘the first comprehensive collection of multicultural literature in Australia’ (Gunew, Post 133). The AMC was maintained for approximately ten years via the Australian Multicultural Bicentennial Foundation. The intention was for the archive to be continually updated; however, after Gunew left Australia for Canada in the early twenty-first century, engagement with the archive dwindled, to the extent that, when Gunew attempted to donate books from her personal collection upon her retirement, she was unable to locate its whereabouts.' (Archives and autographics: reanimating diaspora in the Transpacific : Introduction)
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies vol. 36 no. 1 2022 23752711 2022 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Fashion Futures and Critical Fashion Studies vol. 35 no. 6 2021 23644635 2021 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 35 no. 4 2021 23516302 2021 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies A Tribute to the Co-Founding Editors of Continuum, Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan. vol. 35 no. 3 2021 23343119 2021 periodical issue

'This special issue is dedicated to the memory and work of Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan, the founding editors of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, who sadly passed away within months of each other in 2020. At the time of his passing, Brian Shoesmith was Adjunct Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth, Australia, where he is credited with developing the media department where he had worked for more than thirty years. In more recent years, he was also appointed as Dean for Academic Development and as Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Board of Trustees of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). Tom O’Regan was Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Previously, Tom had held Australian leadership positions at Murdoch University and Griffith University. Tom was Australia’s UNESCO Professor of Communication from 2001 to 2003. Both Brian and Tom had held senior leadership roles. Both had been Heads of School, Deans, and significantly are widely commended as being pioneers in the field. This special memorial issue brings together a range of notable academics that share their recollections, critical insights and engaging tributes to these pioneering scholars and mentors.' (Panizza Allmark : Continuum and the legacy of Brian Shoesmith and Tom O’Regan: a memorial issueIntroduction)

y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 35 no. 1 2021 21940069 2021 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Precarious Futures : Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times vol. 34 no. 6 2020 21049944 2020 periodical issue '... The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult circumstances caused by the emergence of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Taking up (and indeed living) the theme of ‘precarious futures’, the authors of these papers canvass topics related to this issue, including: environmental transformations caused by climate change and species extinction; global food security; modes of protest in climate crisis and pandemic crisis; affective politics; colonialism; drone technologies; science fiction realities; futurist biologies; resurrection science and art; feminist hauntology; feminist futures and academic precarity; and current approaches in medical humanities to emerging health issues.' (Publication introduction)
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 34 no. 5 2020 20742066 2020 periodical issue

'Once accused for the inertia of Chinese feudalism in responding to Western modernity, Confucianism has been attributed to the resurgence of East Asian economies a century later. From the proposition of ‘Asian Values’ by then Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in the 1990s to the establishment of Confucius Institutes globally since 2004 by ironically the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the notions of deference to paternal authority, educational emphasis and family values, have been coined under the umbrella of Confucianism. Within the mediascapes, such notions are often used casually to explain the differences between ‘Asian’ and ‘Western’ media. This topic has been receiving scattered scholarly attention with discussions on the ideological relevance and presence of the discourses of Confucianism within the dramatic television texts (Zhu 2008; Kang and Kim 2011; Liew 2011; Dissanayake 2012). Such culturalist explanations still pervade despite the evolution of more complex media industries, communicative technologies and diverse audiences.' (Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan Lai and Liew Kai Khiun, Introduction)

y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 34 no. 3 2020 19654791 2020 periodical issue

'In the communicative spaces of digital media with their expanded base of user participation, emotions or the social circulation of feelings play a crucial role in the manner in which political positions are articulated and everyday negotiations with politics are performed. The articles in this Special Issue stem from an international workshop held in July 2017 at the University of Amsterdam titled ‘Emotions, political work and participatory media’, where participants working on diverse regions spoke about social media and the role of affect and emotions in the facilitation of politically engaged publics. In this Special Issue, politics emerges in community networks as well as in networks based on an abiding interest in matters of national interests. Both kinds of networks are affective (bound by sentiments of solidarity and belonging) and do deeply political work, in that their performances and interactions concern matters of community building but also identity formation.' (Introduction)

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y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 33 no. 4 2019 16972226 2019 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 33 no. 3 2019 16518012 2019 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Shifting The Terms of Debate : Speaking, Writing and Listening Beyond Free Speech Debates vol. 32 no. 4 2018 14342144 2018 periodical issue

'When the alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopolous toured Australia in late 2017, he attacked familiar targets – Muslims, feminists and much of the mainstream media – as well as ridiculing Aboriginal art as ‘crap’ and ‘really shit’. Demonstrating the transnational scope and ubiquity of contemporary racisms, the UK-born, US-based and internationally-known ‘free speech’ advocate had little difficulty in identifying the key targets of vilification in Australia. This theme issue identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West, and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities.'  ( Tanja DreherMichael Griffiths Introduction)

y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies vol. 32 no. 3 2018 13969184 2018 periodical issue

'The articles in this themed section report on aspects of the survey component of the Australian Research Council-funded Discovery project Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics (DP140101970). Critically engaging with Bourdieusian field theory, this project investigated the shaping of, and relations between, art, literary, media, sport, music and heritage fields. It considered the effects on these fields of national and transnational factors including cultural policy-making, digitization and globalization probing, in particular, the role of cultural capital in mediating the relationship between education and occupational class. Particular attention was also paid to the multicultural composition of Australia’s population and the distinctive position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders both within and across the six cultural fields encompassed by the project.' (Deborah Stevenson, Tony Bennett:  'Australian cultural fields: social relations and dynamics' Editorial)

y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies vol. 32 no. 2 2018 13732765 2018 periodical issue
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