Social Politics (Columns)

Price, J

Social Politics (Columns)

Price, J

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Publisher:: Canberra Times
Citation:: Tuesday Talk, 2007, 2007
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Price, J	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	n/a	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tuesday Talk, 2007, 2007	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12290
dc.description.abstract	Background As the news has the power to set the public agenda, significant gaps in the news media can contribute to policy neglect. The has author identified a significant gap in the newsmedia - there are columnists who write about their personal lives and columnists who write about their political opinions, but rarely are the two linked together. To address this gap, the author has for 11 years written a weekly column in the Canberra Times linking personal experience to government policy. The research question being addressed is: how can journalists use personal and domestic experiences to question and illuminate government policies? Contribution The column draws on 30 years of researching and reporting social issues and interviews with stakeholders. This research is linked with the author's own personal experience to create new insights of national significance and bring the personal domestic space into the public sphere. The research for these columns follows a grounded theory approach allowing important themes to emerge from the data. The author receives a high level of reader interaction through emails and this also delivers fresh themes; readers draw on their experience, responding to my column in ways in which create an ongoing public conversation. The objective is to move away from media practices and discourse which trivialize domestic life to practice which foregrounds the domestic and inserts it into arguments about the development of public policy. Significance This column develops a different perspective on Australian cultural, social and political life in a daily newspaper which reaches the nation's key policy makers and politicians.	en_US
dc.publisher	Canberra Times	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Tuesday Talk	en_US
dc.title	Social Politics (Columns)	en_US
utslib.location	Canberra, Australia	en_US
utslib.for	1903 Journalism and Professional Writing	en_US
utslib.citation.edition	2007	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Journalism Program
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pubs.edition	2007	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Canberra, Australia	en_US

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Background As the news has the power to set the public agenda, significant gaps in the news media can contribute to policy neglect. The has author identified a significant gap in the newsmedia - there are columnists who write about their personal lives and columnists who write about their political opinions, but rarely are the two linked together. To address this gap, the author has for 11 years written a weekly column in the Canberra Times linking personal experience to government policy. The research question being addressed is: how can journalists use personal and domestic experiences to question and illuminate government policies? Contribution The column draws on 30 years of researching and reporting social issues and interviews with stakeholders. This research is linked with the author's own personal experience to create new insights of national significance and bring the personal domestic space into the public sphere. The research for these columns follows a grounded theory approach allowing important themes to emerge from the data. The author receives a high level of reader interaction through emails and this also delivers fresh themes; readers draw on their experience, responding to my column in ways in which create an ongoing public conversation. The objective is to move away from media practices and discourse which trivialize domestic life to practice which foregrounds the domestic and inserts it into arguments about the development of public policy. Significance This column develops a different perspective on Australian cultural, social and political life in a daily newspaper which reaches the nation's key policy makers and politicians.

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