In my 2013 article ‘The Motorcar and Desire’ (Southern Semiotic Review, Vol 2), I introduce a ser... more In my 2013 article ‘The Motorcar and Desire’ (Southern Semiotic Review, Vol 2), I introduce a series of papers ‘seeking to retrieve the largely forgotten clatter, rumble, and roar of the internal combustion engine as it (quite literally) erupted onto the stage of the modern world (op. cit. n.p.).’ In pursuit of that objective, that foundational paper leverages the work of Victor Shklovsky (see ‘Art as Technique’, 1917) to show how processes of habitualisation have rendered us (more or less) deaf and blind to the manifold cultural significances of the automobile. In a definitively structuralist-semiotic mode, the paper also traverses the changing pattern of literary reception vis-à-vis the motorcar over the first quarter of the twentieth century: that is, while initially celebrated as an icon of freedom and conquest, the motorcar later came to be represented as a sign of confinement and destruction. Broadly, and echoing the trajectory of Ilya Ehrenburg’s The Life of the Automobile (1...
In my article, "A New Sound; a New Sensation: A Cultural and Literary Reconsideration of the... more In my article, "A New Sound; a New Sensation: A Cultural and Literary Reconsideration of the Motorcar in Modernity" (Ryder), I propose that "a range of semiotic engines" may be mobilised "to argue that, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, the motorcar is received as relatum profundis of freedom". In that 2019 article I further argue that, as Roland Barthes has indirectly proposed, the automobile fits into a "highway code" and into a broader "car system" in which its attributes—including its architectural details—are received as signs of liberation (Barthes Elements, 10, 29). While extending that argument, with near exclusive focus on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and with special reference to the hero’s Rolls Royce, I argue here that the automobile is offered as a sign of both conquest and destruction; as both dream machine and vehicle of nightmare. This is not to suggest that the motorcar was, prior to 192...
Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege ... more Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege the organisation can restrict communication to organisational mandates and goals. Organisation-centric approaches can reflect a modernist view of development or communication and have been critiqued for favouring technocratic development rather than serving marginalised groups. Currently, scholars in development communication and public relations place greater emphasis on publics or community participation and the processual nature of communication to overcome adverse organisational influence and propose better solutions. This article recognises theoretical advances in development communication and public relations and adopts the Collaborative Communication Approach, integrating current concepts from these two fields. The Collaborative Communication Approach facilitates an examination of communication in development in relation to five elements of power, context, participation, agency, and profession. This article shows how the five elements prove useful in addressing communication challenges in development through primary research and offers eight distinct categories to advance practice.
In considering the problem of asylum generally, and the experience of 'boatpeople'speci... more In considering the problem of asylum generally, and the experience of 'boatpeople'specifically, through the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and New Criticism Cries from Babylon is a study of asylum-seeker discourse within the Australian body politic. ...
Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege ... more Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege the organisation can restrict communication to organisational mandates and goals. Organisationcentric approaches can reflect a modernist view of development or communication and have been critiqued for favouring technocratic development rather than serving marginalised groups. Currently, scholars in development communication and public relations place greater emphasis on publics or community participation and the processual nature of communication to overcome adverse organisational influence and propose better solutions. This article recognises theoretical advances in development communication and public relations and adopts the Collaborative Communication Approach, integrating current concepts from these two fields. The Collaborative Communication Approach facilitates an examination of communication in development in relation to five elements of power, context, participation, agency, and profession. This article shows how the five elements prove useful in addressing communication challenges in development through primary research and offers eight distinct categories to advance practice.
In my 2013 article ‘The Motorcar and Desire’ (Southern Semiotic Review, Vol 2), I introduce a ser... more In my 2013 article ‘The Motorcar and Desire’ (Southern Semiotic Review, Vol 2), I introduce a series of papers ‘seeking to retrieve the largely forgotten clatter, rumble, and roar of the internal combustion engine as it (quite literally) erupted onto the stage of the modern world (op. cit. n.p.).’ In pursuit of that objective, that foundational paper leverages the work of Victor Shklovsky (see ‘Art as Technique’, 1917) to show how processes of habitualisation have rendered us (more or less) deaf and blind to the manifold cultural significances of the automobile. In a definitively structuralist-semiotic mode, the paper also traverses the changing pattern of literary reception vis-à-vis the motorcar over the first quarter of the twentieth century: that is, while initially celebrated as an icon of freedom and conquest, the motorcar later came to be represented as a sign of confinement and destruction. Broadly, and echoing the trajectory of Ilya Ehrenburg’s The Life of the Automobile (1...
In my article, "A New Sound; a New Sensation: A Cultural and Literary Reconsideration of the... more In my article, "A New Sound; a New Sensation: A Cultural and Literary Reconsideration of the Motorcar in Modernity" (Ryder), I propose that "a range of semiotic engines" may be mobilised "to argue that, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, the motorcar is received as relatum profundis of freedom". In that 2019 article I further argue that, as Roland Barthes has indirectly proposed, the automobile fits into a "highway code" and into a broader "car system" in which its attributes—including its architectural details—are received as signs of liberation (Barthes Elements, 10, 29). While extending that argument, with near exclusive focus on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and with special reference to the hero’s Rolls Royce, I argue here that the automobile is offered as a sign of both conquest and destruction; as both dream machine and vehicle of nightmare. This is not to suggest that the motorcar was, prior to 192...
Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege ... more Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege the organisation can restrict communication to organisational mandates and goals. Organisation-centric approaches can reflect a modernist view of development or communication and have been critiqued for favouring technocratic development rather than serving marginalised groups. Currently, scholars in development communication and public relations place greater emphasis on publics or community participation and the processual nature of communication to overcome adverse organisational influence and propose better solutions. This article recognises theoretical advances in development communication and public relations and adopts the Collaborative Communication Approach, integrating current concepts from these two fields. The Collaborative Communication Approach facilitates an examination of communication in development in relation to five elements of power, context, participation, agency, and profession. This article shows how the five elements prove useful in addressing communication challenges in development through primary research and offers eight distinct categories to advance practice.
In considering the problem of asylum generally, and the experience of 'boatpeople'speci... more In considering the problem of asylum generally, and the experience of 'boatpeople'specifically, through the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and New Criticism Cries from Babylon is a study of asylum-seeker discourse within the Australian body politic. ...
Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege ... more Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege the organisation can restrict communication to organisational mandates and goals. Organisationcentric approaches can reflect a modernist view of development or communication and have been critiqued for favouring technocratic development rather than serving marginalised groups. Currently, scholars in development communication and public relations place greater emphasis on publics or community participation and the processual nature of communication to overcome adverse organisational influence and propose better solutions. This article recognises theoretical advances in development communication and public relations and adopts the Collaborative Communication Approach, integrating current concepts from these two fields. The Collaborative Communication Approach facilitates an examination of communication in development in relation to five elements of power, context, participation, agency, and profession. This article shows how the five elements prove useful in addressing communication challenges in development through primary research and offers eight distinct categories to advance practice.
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