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RMIT University | AusNet's Helping Our Mission for Equity Grant Exploring how Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities navigate the energy transition in Victoria.

Check out this new report “Communicating to CALD Communities about energy: Best practice engagement to connect with digitally excluded groups”. Authored by 3C's Leah Li, David Micallef, @dbossio.bsky.social & @lukasteo.bsky.social Funded by AusNet communityhub.ausnetservices.com.au/HOME-Grant/r...

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Check out the latest issue of Public Relations Review for an article by 3C’s David Micallef and Juan Feng with @eddyhurc.bsky.social (also from RMIT University): “Long live Darth Vapour! Examining how audiences engage with influencers in an anti-vaping campaign”: doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

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Check out the latest edition of Journalism Studies for an article by Christine Kearney with 3C’s Lisa Waller: “Bodying the War Correspondent: Deploying Creative Practice to Explore the Reporter's Body as a Sense-Making Tool” doi.org/10.1080/1461...
#journalism #foreigncorrespondent

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Check out the latest edition of Conservation Biology for an article by Gregg, Garrard, Bekessy, Kusmanoff, Martin, Selinske, Kidd along with 3C’s Jenny Robinson: “Barriers to public engagement with biodiversity conservation” doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
#biodiversity #conservation #behaviourchange

The visual tile shows an image of stethoscope lying on top of a blurry newspaper, with the text " New Research!" and "Feng, S., Li, X. (Leah), & Wake, A. N. (2025). Journalistic cultural competence for health journalists: a systematic review and overview of reviews using concept analysis. Media International Australia"

What is journalistic cultural competence? Find out in the latest @mediaintaus.bsky.social article by 3C's Shi Feng, Leah Li and @wakeinfright.bsky.social. Here: doi.org/10.1177/1329...

Spotted in the wild - my book, in stores as of this week!

We are hiring a 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐭𝐰𝐨-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 examining gender norms, gaming influencers and tween boys! rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...

Image: Journalist writing in pad, whicle juggling two microphones. Text: NEW RESEARCH! Bossio, D. & Carson, A. (2025), "Who Really Leads? A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Equity in Leadership of Australian Newsrooms", Social Sciences, 14(5), 311.

Check out the latest edition of @Social Sciences for an article by 3C’s @dbossio.bsky.social with Andrea Carson (La Trobe University): “Who Really Leads? A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Equity in Leadership of Australian Newsrooms” doi.org/10.3390/socs...
#journalism #genderequity

Several hands holding mobile phones and microphones to an interviewee in a blue suit. Text: NEW RESEARCH!The platforming is the point: News media, 'the oxygen of amplification', and interviewing the far-rightThompson, J. D., & Sengul, K. (2025). The platforming is the point: News media,'the oxygen of amplification, and interviewing the far-right. Communication and the Public. https://doi.org/10.1177/20570473251334840

Check out the latest article in Communication and the Public—The platforming is the point: News media, ‘the oxygen of amplification’, and interviewing the far-right by @jaydanielthompson.bsky.social and Kurt Sengul (Macquarie University): doi.org/10.1177/2057...

PhD candidate Brian Llagas has been invited to speak at the Australasian Packaging Conference at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth from day 6-7th this May. He will present his research on addressing consumer confusion with date labels and storage advice in food packaging to help reduce household food waste.

Check out the latest research by Dr. Xiufang (Leah) Li: China-Africa relations: Intention, aspiration, and a shared future through the means of football in Global China and the Global Game.

Read it here: ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/rea...

#SportsDiplomacy #China #Africa

Check out the latest research published in Future Foods: Consumer perceptions of date labelling and storage advice and its relationship with food waste: A systematic scoping review of the academic & grey literature by Brian Llagas.

Read more about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu....

#FoodWaste

Check out the latest report from Dr. TJ Thomson via APO: "Generative AI & Journalism: Content, journalistic perceptions, and audience experiences."

Read it here: apo.org.au/node/329601

#GenerativeAI #Journalism

Cardboard placards containing handwritten messages: “Stop Climate Change” and ”Stop Global Warming”. The text is: New research! Wake, A., & Smith, S. (2024). Reporting hunger strikes in the context of climate action. Media International Australia.

Check out the latest edition of Media International Australia for an article by 3C’s @wakeinfright.bsky.social with Sharon Smith: “Reporting hunger strikes in the context of climate action”. Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1329...
#journalism #hungerstrike #climatechange

A person’s hands typing on a keyboard with the imagery emerging from the screen including a set of scales, documents, and “AI”. The text is: New research! Bourne, C. and Jackson, M. (2024). "AI Ethics Are Not Enough: Public Relations, Social Justice and Artificial Intelligence". The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society, Sage (pp.59-73)

Check out this latest chapter in The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society by 3C’s Michaela Jackson with Clea Bourne from Goldsmiths University: AI Ethics Are Not Enough: Public Relations, Social Justice and Artificial Intelligence.

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A huge congratulations to 3C's Professor Linda Brennan for being recognised by RMIT University’s College of Design and Social Context with an Award for Research Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision!

News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta The government has been playing ‘four-dimensional chess’ to work out how to drag big tech back to the bargaining table with news publishers. So, will this new scheme work?

I was given about 35 seconds to write a quick update for The Conversation on the news media bargaining code and what is essentially the Albanese govt trying to force Meta back to the bargaining table with a a fully offset levy. You can read about it here: theconversation.com/news-bargain...

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Check out the latest article in Social Enterprise Journal by 3C’s Jon Hewitt and @lukasteo.bsky.social with RMIT University’s Grace McQuilten and Ricarda Bigolin: Fashionable Altruism: The Marketing of Fashion-Based Social Enterprise: doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-...