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Chew On ThisNavigating Eating Disorders: With Psychologist Carly DoberIn this episode of Chew On This, I sit down with Carly Dober, a seasoned psychologist and director of the Australian Association of Psychology. Carly delves into the link between nutrition and mental health, focusing on eating disorders. She also explains what eating disorders are, how to identify them, and ways to overcome them. We explore the role of social media and societal pressures in shaping body image and eating behaviours. Carly shares practical tips for fostering a healthy relationship with food and highlights the importance of mental health support.00:00 - Meet Carly Dober...2024-05-261h 24
Tell Me Some More with Dr. ShevaNature's Nurture: Practical Strategies for Mental Wellness- A Conversation with Carly Dober, PsychologistDr. Sheva and Carly Dober, a Melbourne-based psychologist and mental health expert with Headspace Australia, discuss the numerous benefits of nature on mental wellness. How much time do we need to be outdoors to experience the benefits!? Carly provides a ton of research-support insights to support practical and feasible nature activities that you can incorporate in your day-to-day. They share the myriad of ways that connecting with nature and the outdoors can nourish our mental health and overall well-being. Carly and Dr. Sheva delve into the practice of mindfulness, sharing personal anecdotes and tips on how to anchor ourselves...2024-03-2641 min
Mental WorkShould you join a professional association? (with Sahra O'Doherty and Carly Dober)You might have heard that professional associations exist for psychologists -- but what exactly do they do, and what are the benefits of joining one? Bron is joined by two Directors of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi) to chat about what professional associations do for their members, how professional associations collaborate with Government, and where psychology advocacy is headed in the future. Guests: Sahra O'Doherty (AAPi President) and Carly Dober (AAPi Director). LINKS Check out the AAPi conference, 20-22 March 2024 in Brisbane The main professional associations that allow psychologists to join are A...2024-02-2749 min
Baby Brain Podcast133. Talking to kids about death with Psychologist Carly DoberDo you remember losing your first pet as a kid, or a grandparent, or maybe someone closer? Death and grief can be a very uncomfortable topic, and even as adults we can often struggle to wrap our head around these conversations. How we speak to our children about death can have a huge impact on their frame of mind, and their grieving process. In this week's episode, we're joined by the incredible Carly Dober, a Psychologist and a Director at the Australian Association of Psychologists Incorporated (AAPi) and runs her own private practice. She works with children, a...2023-11-2743 min
Ghosts of Boyfriends PastCarly and the Psychology of IcksPsychologist Carly Dober joins Liz and Producer Zane to talk first date icks: what causes them, which ones are most common and how to tackle them when they happen. Sadly Tom couldn’t make it to recording this ep as he was literally stuck on a train going nowhere.We used results from a survey undertaken by OpenTable for this discussion.Carly Dober is a psychologist, mental health educator and public speaker with a particular interest in the issues that affect the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young women. She is also a...2023-11-1548 min
Mental WorkIs it possible to be financially secure and avoid burnout? (with Carly Dober)Bron and Carly unpack a spicy listener question: Is it possible to be financially secure and avoid burnout? They chat about 👉🏽 Valuing the skills that you have to offer as a psychologist 👉🏻 Finding workplaces that align with your financial goals and respect that you are a human with a finite workload capacity 👉 How to not get sucked in by workplaces promising you the world. Guest: Carly Dober (Psychologist and Director at the Australian Association for Psychologists Inc) THE END BITS Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t h...2023-08-1639 min
Extra Healthy-ishEverything to know about relationship beige flagsJust when you wrapped your head around green and red flags, TikTok has served up another - the beige flag. Psychologist and Headspace App’s mental health expert Carly Dober talks about them. WANT MORE FROM CARLY? Find out more about the Headspace App, here. Or, see Instagram @headspace or @enrichinglivespsychology. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an...2023-07-2615 min
Healthy-ishCost-of-living stress affecting your wellbeing?The cost of living crisis isn’t just a headline - it’s real - and it’s impacting our mental health. Psychologist and Headspace App’s mental health expert Carly Dober shares some strategies to cope. WANT MORE FROM CARLY? To hear today's full interview, where Carly discusses the TikTok trend of beige flags...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about the Headspace App, here. Or, see Instagram @headspace or @enrichinglivespsychology. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.c...2023-07-2608 min
Mental WorkCan I be a therapist if I have lived experience? (with Carly Dober)Today on Mental Work, Bron is joined by Carly Dober (Psychologist and Director of AAPi) to unpack the question, 'Can I be a good therapist if I have lived experience?' They chat about 👉🏽 How having lived experience can inform your work as a psych 👉🏻 Myths about therapists with mental illness 👉 Changes in attitudes among psychs towards lived experience practitioners 👉🏿 Why peer-led work is super cool. Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t have to go it alone. Hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins. THE END BITS Love the po...2023-03-2242 min
Mental WorkTherapists in therapy (with Carly Dober)Bron is joined by Carly Dober (Psychologist, Director of AAPi) to unpack the taboo world of getting therapy as a therapist. We talk about 👉🏽 Does getting therapy mean you're not suited to the profession? 👉🏻 Does psych training get in the way of being helped by therapy 👉 How personal therapy informs us as professionals 👉🏿 Practical tips for getting therapy (finding a psych, getting a mental health plan). Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t have to go it alone. Hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins. LINKS "Maybe you should talk t...2023-01-2556 minExtra Healthy-ishThe rise in mental health self-diagnosis from social mediaPsychologist and Headspace App’s mental health expert Carly Dober discusses the rise in makeshift mental health support networks on TikTok and Instagram, and why more people are self-diagnosing themselves. WANT MORE FROM CARLY? Find out more about the Headspace App, here. Or, see Instagram @headspace or @enrichinglivespsychology. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Ins...2023-01-2517 minHealthy-ishSelf-diagnosing from social media - is it dangerous?TikTok and Instagram are leading more of us to self-diagnose mental illness and neurodiversity. So, are these makeshift mental health support networks dangerous? Psychologist and Headspace App’s mental health expert Carly Dober discusses. WANT MORE FROM CARLY? To hear today's full interview, where Carly chats about red and green flags on social media...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about the Headspace App, here. Or, see Instagram @headspace or @enrichinglivespsychology. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your dail...2023-01-2509 minMental WorkRecognising workplace exploitation (with Carly Dober)Bron is joined by psychologist and AAPi director Carly Dober to unpack the challenge of workplace exploitation. They discuss 👉🏽 How to recognise exploitation using Carly's experiences 👉🏻 Characteristics that increase early career psychs' vulnerability to exploitation 👉 What to do if you are unsure about an offer or workplace. Mental Work is hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins, an Australian-based early career psychologist. THE END BITS Thanks for listening. Mental Work is the podcast unpacking the challenges faced by early career psychologists, so they don’t have to go it alone. Love the podcast? You can help keep i...2022-11-0237 min
Earth MattersTiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill & Blockade Australia updateTiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill & Blockade Australia updateJacob Gamble touches base with Jason Fowler from the Northern Territory Environment Centre about Santos drilling for oil off the tiwi islands. Priya Kunjan gets an update from Tuffy at Goongerah Environment Centre about the Victorian government’s new anti-forest protest bill.Carly Dober speaks with Jarrah at Blockade Australia about upcoming actions Earth Matters #1354 was produced by Carly Dober, Priya Kunjan & Jacob Gamble2022-06-2600 min
3CR Community RadioCybernetic capitalism: Google's digital empire"I'll just Google it". How many times a day has this refrain been uttered by someone struggling to find the answer to a question? Timothy Eric Strom, researcher and writer on global political economy, looks at the power of Google to enter our everyday lives and translate that power into profit-making and personal surveillance.2020-08-2400 min
3CR Community RadioWhat to monuments and memorials 'mean'?Image: Tim Waters/FlickrColonial monuments have been in the spotlight since the Rhodes Must Fall movement started in South Africa in March 2015, and have faced renewed focus in 2020 because of the Black Lives Matter protests. Starting with the removal of slaver Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, a number of statues have been pulled down around the world -- but not in Australia.Reema Rattan facilitates a discussion between ANU Professor of History Bruce Scates and Shanti Sumartojo, Associate Professor of Design Research at Monash University, about what monuments and memorials communicate to try to uncover their role in the public and histo...2020-08-1000 min
3CR Community RadioFrom facial recognition technology to mass population surveillanceFacial recogniton technology is being rolled out across Australia with what some, including the Human Rights Commission, consider to be unseemly haste. Is mass societal face surveillance the next step, and will the current Covid crisis be an additional push factor? Rick Sarre, adjunct professor of law and criminal justice at the University of South Australia, and Seth Lazar, professor of philosophy at the Australian National University take up the legal, ethical and privacy issues.2020-08-0300 min
3CR Community RadioStruggling against institutional racism in the media and other culture industriesDiscrimination, hidden and not so hidden, appears to be pervasive in communication and culture insdurties across Australia. The ABC, SBS, Network Seven and the National Institute of Dramatic Art have all been in the spotlight in recent years. Black Lives Matter organizer, screen writer, Sydney Theatre Company emerging playwright and graduate of NIDA, Enoch Mailangi reflects on his own experiences in the culture industry and offers his prognosis for reform and change.2020-07-2700 min
Tuesday BreakfastMeditation in pandemic times, Carly Dobber and climate activism, Laila Yaqoobi and Road to Refugee, Katie Robertson and 'Make a Fuss'Acknowledgement of country// Introduction// Alternative news: We all know about mediation but there is still such a reluctance to try it out. This week Geneveive explores what meditation is, the benefits, the history and why it's so important during this lockdown// Lauren speaks to Carly Dober, a psychologist and climate activist, about effective activism during a global pandemic// Zoya speaks to Laila Yaqoobi about the importance of refugee stories. Laila is a nursing student and a volunteer at Road to Refuge; an organisation that supports refugees and asylum seekers to use creative storytelling as a means to advocate for themselves and...2020-07-2000 min
3CR Community RadioDeliberative democracy: talk-centric not vote-centricDeliberative democracy - utopian pipe dream or attainable vision for the future, and how does it intersect with specific modes of communication and counter the global rise of populist rhetoric? Nicole Curato from the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Governance at the University of Canberra surveys some of the issues.2020-07-1300 min
3CR Community RadioIn their own words: why it's time to abolish prisonsImage: Natalie Macguire/FlickrEvery year during NAIDOC Week, 3CR broadcasts the voices of Indigenous men and women from the inside Victorian prisons. In 2020, Beyond the Bars by disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, making live broadcasts impossible at a time when prison abolition was in the news agenda for a change and the weeklong broadcast was pre-recorded. This programme mines the 2019 Beyond the Bars special to show why we need prison abolition, in the words of Indigenous prison inmates.2020-07-0600 min
3CR Community RadioCommunity radio in a crisisFirst, the disasterous bushfire summer, then the covid19 pandemic. Add in the years of punishing drought, and there it is - Australia's crisis trifecta. Through these challenging weeks, months and years, despite the hardship and struggle, community radio has been there, offering support and a broad range of locally based services. Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, project co-ordinator with the CBAA, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, talks about the important role of community radio in these unprecedented times.2020-06-2200 min
3CR Community RadioWhy is the Australian media missing First Nations voices?Image Binuri Ranasinghe/FlickrReema Rattan talks to senior editor at NITV Jack Latimore and Heidi Norman, Professor of Australian Aboriginal Political History at UTS and one of the editors of 'Does the Media Fail Aboriginal Political Aspirations? 45 years of news media reporting of key political moments' (2019) about how the Australian media ignores the voices of First Nations peoples in news coverage. Using Norman's book as a launching point, this programs examines the reasons and justifications for this historical absence and whether we can expect change in the near future.2020-06-1500 min
3CR Community RadioAll the world's a stageWhat's the connection between a video chat and the celebrity autobiography? This week, we find out when lecturer and researcher in communication and media studies at the University of Western Australia, Katja Lee talks about persona studies, the memoir boom and her own pivotal encounter with video conferencing during the pandemic lockdown.2020-06-0100 min
3CR Community RadioBystanders' dilemma: what to make of online videos of violence?The start of the pandemic was marked by a disturbing rise of online videos of people fighting over toilet paper and racist attacks. But rarely, if ever, did they feature an intervention by a bystander. Reema Rattan asks Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University Patrick Stokes whether it's enough to record such events rather than intervening and what, if anything, that says about how the online world has affected behaviour?2020-05-2500 min
3CR Community RadioCoronavirus, communication and campus activismThis week, a discussion of the shift to digital campaigning within the student movement during the coronavirus pandemic with long term activists and SCR Education Officers Jack Mansell from University of Sydney and Shovan Bhattarai at the University of NSW.2020-05-1800 min
3CR Community RadioSocial media in the time of Covid19We may have been in lockdown due to the coronavirus for the past two months, but social media has been in overdrive. It’s no exaggeration to say that there’s never been a time when so many people around the world are actively posting to various digital platforms. This week Professor Axel Bruns from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology explains the ways that social media links with "panic spirals", conspiracy theories, and creates the conditions for another global contagion: what's been called "the info-demic".2020-05-1100 min
3CR Community RadioA celebration of Eritrean Voices RadioIf you regularly listen to this show live, you may be aware that the program that follows us is Eritrean Voices, one of the longer-running radio programs on 3CR. Programmed by volunteers from the Eritrean community, the show is presented in Arabic, Tigrinya, a language spoken by the Tigrinya people of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and English. The programmers of Eritrean Voices recently celebrated their show, which is widely recognised as an essential service in the community, by launching a book about the program at an event in Flemington. I spoke to a number of people about the show there and to...2020-05-0400 min
3CR Community RadioCovid-19 digital tracing app - steady creep of a surveillance stateThe roll out of the coronavirus contact tracing app, we are told by government, is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus and a prerequisite for the lifting of lockdown restrictions. But the deployment of such a digital technology stands along side a whole suite of laws and powers in Australia - put in place since the 9/11 attacks - that encroach on human rights and the workings of democracy. Tim Singleton Norton from Digital Rights Watch explains.2020-04-2700 min
3CR Community RadioWhy the Australian online support for the Bernie Sanders campaign?Even from this distance, young progressives in Australia have been putting their energies into the Bernie Sanders campaign for the American presidency. Much of this energy has been directed to mobilizing the Sanders policy platform through online communication. This week we find out how it's being done and why.2020-03-1600 min
3CR Community RadioNews coverage of Australia's Black Summer bushfiresThe Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub conducts social research and leads impact focused projects to build media and policy infrastructure that adequately addresses climate change in Australia. The Hub has just released a report that examines the media coverage the unprecedented Australian summer 2019/20 bushfires. David Holmes, the Hub's director, talks about the report's findings and the connection between these findings and public discourse about the climate emergency.2020-03-0900 min
3CR Community RadioHow advertisers can contribute to conservation through the Lion's Share FundLast Steptember, this show focussed on a research paper titled 'The Paradoxical Extinction of the Most Charismatic Animals', which noted that the population of virtual animals in our world was giving people a mistaken impression about the real number of those animals in the wild. One of the paper's concluding suggestions was that advertisers using animal images should contribute funds towards their conservation. A Sydney-based production company has now helped create exactly such an initiative. Executive producer and founder of FINCH Rob Galluzo, who, along with filmmaker Christopher Nelius, co-founded The Lion's Share Fund speaks to Reema Rattan and a gue...2020-03-0200 min
3CR Community RadioMaking Propaganda Art for the 21st centuryPictured: Artist Jonas Staal inside the New World Embassy: Rojava (2016) at the Oslo City Hall, Oslo Architecture Triennale: After Belonging/ORO-KURO, Norway. Photo Istvan ViragJonas Staal is a visual artist and activist whose work deals with the relationship between art, propaganda and democracy. Discussing his most recent book Propaganda Art in the 21st Century, he explains how all art is, in a sense, propaganda and touches on the importance of applying lessons from activism to his work.2020-02-2400 min
3CR Community RadioAustralia's loneliness epidemic: what's the rise of social media got to do with it?“Humans are more connected to each other than ever, thanks to smartphones, the web and social media. At the same time, loneliness is a huge and growing social problem. Why is this so?” That’s Roger Patulny from the University of Wollongong who researches social inclusion, connection and trust and has a special interest in the sociology of emotions. Recently he’s been investigating what’s been described as Australia’s loneliness epidemic and its relationship to the now all-pervasive use of social media.2020-02-1700 min
3CR Community RadioRacism in the history of quarantine in AustraliaAs news broke around the world about the outbreak of the coronavirus now known as COVID-19 in China, the Australia government announced that it would quarantine citizens evacuated from Wuhan, the city where the first infections were identified, to the immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island. Medical historian Dr Peter Hobbins explains the history of quarantine in Australia and addresses questions about whether the practice can just be dismissed as racist.2020-02-1000 min
3CR Community RadioConspiracy theories online: who believes in them, how do they get communicated, why are there so many?Belief in conspiracy theories helps fuel climate change denial, anti-vaccination stances, racism, and distrust of the media and science. Colin Klein from the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University talks about his research into the world and the world views of online conspiracy theorists.2019-12-0900 min
3CR Community RadioPoetryspective at Pride of Our Footscray Community BarThe Pride of Our Footscray Community Bar holds a fortnightly poetry night that is unique for its emphasis on international poets and for encouraging people to read work that is not their own. Started by venue manager Matt O'Keefe and hosted by Lish Skec, the night features a local poet reading their work as well as a featured poet whose work is read by someone else. Matt and Lish joined former featured poet (and playwright) Emilie Collyer to talk poetry, community and the winners of the annual PoetrySlam.2019-12-0200 min
3CR Community RadioMedia coverage of unpaid student placements - here's the real story‘Students Against Unpaid Placements’ is a grassroots campaign that aims to see the end of the exploitation of interns and students on placements required as part of their course. Over the years, there has been some mainstream media coverage of the situation but this reporting often doesn't dig deep enough into the complexity of the issues, and the true nature and consequences of the exploitation, This week Georgia Mantle who launched the campaign explains.2019-11-2500 min
3CR Community RadioThe Trans Mountain pipeline: Canada's Adani moment? How are Canadian media reporting it?Heard of a company called Kinder Morgan? What about the Trans Mountain pipeline? Think of the controversy around the Adani mine here in Australia and the context for this massive Canadian extractivist fossil fuel project will begin to emerge. This week on Communication Mixdown, researcher, writer, blogger and environmental protector Bob Hackett talks about the way mainstream and alterntive media in Canada have been covering these developments, and draws some conclusions about why we should be paying attention.2019-11-1800 min
3CR Community RadioAdvertising is sexist – and we don't know what to do about it!In late October 2019, Women's Health Victoria launched two reports on progressing gender equity in advertising as part of an ongoing project, with the disappointing news that people recognise that they often encouter sexist advertising but don't know what to do about it. Reema Rattan speaks to two women involved in the work and representations of women in advertising more broadly. Mandy MacKenzie is a project officer from the health promotion and support service who worked with Dr Lauren Gurrieri, senior lecturer in marketing at RMIT, on researching and writing Community Responses to Gender Portrayals in Advertising: A Research Paper and Add...2019-11-1100 min
3CR Community RadioBusiness bastardry vs public interest journalismReporting on money in politics, corporate influence and the intersection between government and big business has become increasingly difficult and obstacle prone in Australia over the years. Sandi Keane, editor-in chief at michaelwest.com, the business and finance focused online publication, talks about how to dodge and weave in and around the obstacles and road blocks in order to produce the important work that is public interest journalism.2019-10-2800 min
3CR Community RadioIs the right to the freedom of political communication under threat in Australia?In September, the federal government passed a law aimed at what was charactersied as "farm invasions" by activists targetting abattoirs and farms. Meanwhile, the Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victorian and Tasmanian state governments are all considering legislation aimed at curbing protest activity – by animal and climate change activists. Reema Rattan talks to Professor of Criminal Law Jeremy Gans about whether protests, which are protected under the Constitution as the freedom of political communication, are under threat in Australia.2019-10-2100 min
3CR Community RadioCommunicating masculinityAndrea Waling from the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society at La Trobe University unpacks the historically and culturally specific versions of Australian masculinity constructed by the iconic Paul Hogan persona and in the long-running television show "Blokesworld". Andrea's recently published book is entitled "White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia: The Good Ol’ Aussie Bloke".2019-10-1400 min
3CR Community RadioConfronting the climate crisis: the strategic role of journalists and tv weather presentersCampaigners and activists are still congratulating themselves for the massive success of the global Strike 4 Climate. Despite the adulation, a poll taken in Australia mere days before the protest found that 65% of respondents were unaware that the climate strike was taking place. And only 6% of respondents said that they would take part. So how do you get more people to care about the climate emergency? Media watcher and Crikey correspondent, Christopher Warren talks about the professional responsibility of journalists in climate coverage, and David Holmes, Director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University explains how weather presenters a...2019-10-0700 min
3CR Community RadioWhat do tattoos communicate?With the Immigration Museum in Melbourne hosting a suite of three exhibitions covering traditional Japanese and Polynesian as well as modern tattoos, this week we turn our attention to the meanings and functions of this artform. With guests Fareed Kaviani, a doctoral candidate and freelance writer who has published extensively on tattoos and tattooing, and whose website the4thwall features, among other things, photos of tattoos and Stanislava Pinchuk, who curated the Documenting the Body exhibition at the Immigration Museum, we discuss why people get tattooed as well as what, if anything, people are saying with their tattoos.2019-09-3000 min
3CR Community RadioMore nuance needed: communicating the Hong Kong protestsComplex, critically important, but also erroneous issues are being raised by the coverage of the on-going Hong Kong protests. And added to the mix is the Australian media's ramping up of China paranoia with incessant reports of alleged foreign interference in some of the nation's major institutions. Yang Chen is a writer and policy analyst at China Matters and this week he unpacks the multiple layers of history, culture and politics framing the ways in which the Hong Kong crisis is being discussed and communicated.2019-09-2300 min
3CR Community RadioWho do you trust? Online reviews and Dr. Google need a vigilant eyeConsumer reviews online have become hugely influential on our decisions when it comes making all kinds of purchases. So, it’s not surprising to find a whole industry pumping out fake reviews. Marketing and consumer psychology researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, Adrian Camilleri talks about how to negotiate this minefield of misinformation. And the use of online information has extended to health advice. Rachael Dunlop from in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University and the Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson Hole, Wyoming explains.2019-09-1600 min
3CR Community RadioCommunicating with public art, or art in publicFollowing a two-day symposium titled 'Let's go outside: making art public' by Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and Monash Art Projects, Reema Rattan talks to MUMA director Charlotte Day and artist Professor Callum Morton about what public art is and whether we need more of it.2019-09-0900 min
3CR Community RadioCharismatic animals in advertising and the paradox of extinctionShould companies and advertisers using images and other likenesses of what are sometimes referred to as 'charismatic animals' pay for efforts towards their conservation? To explore this proposal, Communication Mixdown talks with David Watson, professor of ecology in the School of Environmental Sciences at Charles Sturt University and Stephen Downes, specialist in marketing and brand strategy at RMIT University, aka Parrot of the Day.2019-09-0200 min
3CR Community RadioThe rise and rise of investigative journalismAs the digital era inexorably expands its influence, doom and gloom stories about traditional media are a recurrent cultural theme, and this includes apocryphal tales about the decline and fall of investigative reporting. Andrea Carson is a former journalist and now works in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. And she has a very different story to tell based on her extensive study of investigative journalism practices around the world. In this edition of Communication Mixdown, she takes us through her findings, just published as a book entitled 'Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age'.2019-08-2900 min
3CR Community RadioThe far right mainstreamed: meaning making through allusionThe influence and spread of the far right's thinking and ideologies in Australia, and elsewhere, are the result of what lecturer in philosophy at Deakin University, Joshua Badge calls its "savvy" approach to political communication.2019-08-1200 min
3CR Community RadioEthnic community radio in the era of global mass people movementsIn a time of increased xenophobia, stopping the boats, and more overt and vocal racism, what’s the role of community based multicultural broadcasting in Australia? Susan Forde is professor of journalism at Griffith University and the director of that university’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research. In the middle of doing in-depth research into the ways that ethnic community radio plays a key part in meeting and servicing the needs of diverse migrant and refugee communities all across the country, in this edition of Communication Mixdown, she takes up some of the answers to that question.2019-08-0500 min
3CR Community RadioRacism in the Australian mediaIs Australian media racist? How and, more importantly, why? And what can be done about it? We discuss these questions with Yin Paradies, an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian who is Chair in Race Relations and Indigenous Knowledges and Culture Coordinator at Deakin University, and Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, Alana Lentin. The discussion is ultimately about what we can do about creating a less racist society since, media is, after all, made up of people just like us.2019-07-2900 min
3CR Community RadioAustralia's First Nations' languages as part of everyday communicationTwo recently published books - "Wilam: A Birrarung Story" and "Nganga: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Words and Phrases" - aim to engage readers in recognizing and undertanding first nation's languages as an important part of Australia's everyday culture and communication. This week, we hear from the authors, Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly, senior linguist at the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, Aunty Fay Muir, and award winning children's writer Sue Lawson.2019-07-1500 min
3CR Community RadioYes, it's worth arguing with climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers - sometimesThe seemingly endless flow of misreporting, fake news, and partisan content being communicated as fact is hard to keep up with. This week, psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky from the University of Bristol talks about why people continue to hold beliefs at odds with overwhelming scientific evidence and some of the strategies used to counter science deniers.2019-07-0800 min
3CR Community Radio“Deepfakes are where truth goes to die”Deep learning artificial intelligence techniques (the “deep” in deepfakes) is leading to the creation of increasingly credible digital simulations -- doctored videos so realistic that they’re almost impossible to tell from the real thing. Professor Mark Andrejevic from the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University talks about the proliferation of this technology and what he describes as the "degraded version of civic life" upon which it can thrive.2019-07-0100 min
3CR Community RadioMicrotargeting: you're in the bull's-eyeMicrotargeting is a marketing strategy that uses digital data — connections, tastes, demographics, purchases, locations and more — to segment people into smaller and smaller groups for very tailored content targeting in order to influence perception and behavior. Marketing and communications specialist and host of 'Backchat' on Sydney’s FBI radio, Swetha Das talks about the rise of microtargeting and her recent research on the political microtargeting of Australia's migrant communities.2019-06-2400 min
3CR Community RadioCommunity media, national and international perspectivesLecturer in journalism at Deakin Univesity Usha Manchanda Rodrigues speaks about her role as convenor of a unique forum bringing togetherlocal and international community media practitioners and researchers to engage and discuss the emerging intersections of community and citizen based media and new communication technologies.Jon Bisset who heads up the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, the CBAA, provides an overview of some of the key findings and recommendations coming out of the Association's most recent 2019 nation-wide report "State of the Community Broadcasting Sector".2019-06-1700 min
3CR Community RadioThe radiothon edition of CMD and a tribute to some of 3CR's long-time program communicatorsThe theme of the 3CR radiothon this year is – Power Radical Radio. And as this is a show all about communication, we see 3CR community radio as a very special communication powerhouse right here in Melbourne. With the ever expanding commodification of the media, at 3CR the power of communication is placed back into the hands of the community providing a platform for strong and diverse voices.In this radiothon edition we feature three of those voices, programmers who have been communicating over the airwaves for years, in some cases decades, and now digitally streaming and podcasting - the 'unsung her...2019-06-1000 min
3CR Community RadioGendered cyber-hate: the growth of misogyny onlineThe weaving of the internet into everyday life has created platforms for and communities that encourage extreme misogyny. Dr. Emma Jane from the School of the Arts and Media at the Univesity of New South Wales and author of the groundbreaking publication "Misogyny Online, A Short (and Brutish) History" traces the rise of, and push back against, gendered hate speech, stalking and harassment online.2019-06-0300 min
3CR Community RadioNetworking hate - new media and the rise of the rightIn the first 3 months of 2019, hate speech postings globally on Facebook increased 30% with nearly ten and a half million of these posts removed. By Facebook’s own reckoning the past six months has seen a steep rise in the creation of abusive and fake accounts.Mark Davis from the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne researches the impacts of networked digital media ondemocratic culture. This week he talks about the on-line presence, messaging tactics and influence of the far right in Australia, and explains the ways the US alt-right globalizes its communicational strategies.2019-05-2700 min
3CR Community RadioRetooling political campaigns for the digital eraThis year’s federal election in Australia marks a milestone. It's the first where political parties are advertising more on social and digital platforms than in traditional media – like TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. Andrew Hughes from the Research School of Management at the Australian National University in Canberra researches and writes on marketing and branding strategies, and in this edition of Communication Mixdown he casts a critical eye over the realigned landscape of poliitcal campaigning.2019-05-1300 min
3CR Community RadioWhat do museums have to do with climate change, environmental crisis and communication?This week, we investigate how museums use different forms of communication to educate and mobilize the public around the twin existential crises of climate change and global environmental degradation with Miranda Massie, founder of the unique Climate Museum in New York City, and environmental activist Beka Economopoulos, executive director of the US based Natural History Museum. Both guests were in Australia as keynote speakers at the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival.2019-05-0600 min
3CR Community RadioDirt files - political smear as campaigning communication tacticFollowers of media trends will have noticed a distinct spike in well timed takedowns of candidates across the political spectrum during state and federal elections. The use of dirt files in political campaigning has become a regular, even anticipated occcurrance over the past few years. This week, Michael Koziol, political correspondent for The Age, and Tom Raue, Greens candidate in the recent NSW state election offer some explanations.2019-04-2900 min
3CR Community RadioPolitical communication - Australia's lobbyist juggernautWith Australia's 2019 federal election taking place in a matter of weeks, Communication Mixdown continues its investigation into the sometimes murky world of political communication. In this edition of the show a look at lobby groups.We see their spokespeople quoted in newspapers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we tend to know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. Lecturer in politics at the University of Melbourne, and specialist in contemparary campaigning strategies and advocacy advertising, George Rennie casts a crtical eye over the vast and still expanding lobbyist landscape.2019-04-2200 min
3CR Community RadioPolitical opinion polls: how do they work, who do they influence?With a federal election in Australia expected in May this year, political opinion polls that provide a snapshot of voter views and preferences tend to become increasingly central to the unfolding of political discourse, especially as the results of these polls get concentrated media attention when published. This week, Communication Mixdown explores political polling with expert in electoral matters Peter Brent, adjunct research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology and political commentator with the online publication Inside Story.2019-04-0800 min
3CR Community RadioVanishing voicesThe number of small languages in the world is being steadily reduced by many factors - urbanization, colonial policies, the dominace of big languages like English, population displacement through conflict and climate change. The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures especially in the Asia Pacific region and in Australia. The collection currently contains over 7,800 hours of audio materials representing more than 1,100 languages. Nick Thieberger, PARADISEC's current Director talks about the archiving and digitization of disappearing languages and the connection between the work being...2019-04-0100 min
3CR Community RadioRe-igniting the culture wars: The Ramsay Centre and the mediaAfter numerous unsuccessful discussions with universities around the country, the controversial Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation recently signed an agreement with the University of Wollongong to begin offering a new Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation. Current president of the UOW student union Chloe Rafferty talks about the campaign opposing the establishment of the Centre at the university and how this played out in the media. Then Imogen Grant, 2018 president of the student union at the University of Sydney, provides an overview of the very public campaign to stop the Ramsay Centre being set up at that university.2019-03-2500 min
3CR Community RadioCultural and linguistic diversity: media industries in Australia need a shake upMedia Diversity Australia is a nation-wide not-for-profit organisation run by journalists and communications professionals working to make the media landscape more representative of all Australians. Senior reporter at Network 10, Antoinette Lattouf, director and co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, talks about how her recently formed organization provides support and opportunities for media professionals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and collaborates with mainstream media outlets on inclusivenss strategies and policies.2019-03-1800 min
3CR Community RadioCommunicating "Jordan Peterson"Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, Youtuber, public speaker and best selling author of the self help book ‘12 Rules to Life’, has cultivated a passionate - albeit mostly male - global fanbase. Peterson recently visited Australia for a tour of sold out shows and a high profile appearance on the ABC's Q&A program. However, his gender essentialism, views on morality and ethics and his individualistic wordview and advice have attracted substantial amounts of criticism. So how have his ideas circulated and been communicated in the media and in the public arena more broadly? Long time activist, writer and the media spokesperson for...2019-03-0400 min
3CR Community RadioEthical dilemmas and the true crime podcastTrue crime podcasting has turned out to be a hugely popular type of media long-form content. But there are recurring questions about this particular strand of popular culture. Ostensibly based on a miscarriage of justice, are these podcasts merely voyeuristic, exploiting tragedy for the sake of entertainment and missing the voice of victims?These ethical tensions are explored in the edition of Communication Mixdown with Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Patrick Stokes, and Dr. Gregory Stratton from the Justice and Legal Department at RMIT who manages the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative.2019-02-2500 min
3CR Community RadioPrison radio - communicational potentialRadio produced and broadcast by prisoners for prisoners has emerged as something of a media social movement with initiatives and developments happening in many parts of the world. Charlotte Bedford played a founding role in the establishment of the UK National Prison Radio service and her book, “Making Waves Behind Bars”, just published, presents a history of the Prison Radio Association in the UK. Currently she’s investigating ways that radio can be used - both inside and outside of prisons in South Australia - to improve the wellbeing of prisoners and better prepare them for reintegration into society.2018-12-1300 min
3CR Community RadioSco Mo, the Muppet Show and political communication"The curtains have come down on that Muppet Show". That's Scott Morrison who thought it was a good idea to use this metaphor when he dismissed the power plays bringing down Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. Since then, there's been a number of attempts by the Liberal- National Coalition to communicate with voters that have gone distinctly pear shaped. This week on Communication Mixdown, new co-host Reema Rattan talks with Dr. Norman Abjorensen, former national editor at the Sydney Morning Herald and now political historian at the Australian National University, about the Morrison government’s style of political communication.2018-12-0600 min
3CR Community RadioOur obsession with screens, devices and technologyA recently released feature documentary film comes with the unusual title "Stare into the Lights My Pretties", a reference to that all time classic film, "The Wizard of Oz". This documentary, as it turns out, is also a film about wizardry: the wizardry – and power - of new media and digital technology. Communication Mixdown's new co-host Zac Shapiro talks to the writer and director Jordan Brown about the social and cultural trends that prompted him to make the film.2018-11-2900 min
3CR Community RadioRefugees and communicationWhat happens in the communication exchange when refugees confront government officials face to face as they apply for asylum in Australia? With a extensive background in the area of refugee law, barrister Douglas McDonald-Norman explains the complex and multi-layered communication environment that operates during 'refugee status determination' interviews.The world of photography can empower women refugees to find resilience and develop a sense of social agency and self-worth in the process of resettlement. Professor of International Health at Curtin University in Western Australia, Jaya Dantas explains the photovoice project.2018-11-0800 min
3CR Community RadioHumour and shame - the best way to change behavior?What's the relationship between communication and behaviour change - in particular, changing our behaviour around environmental waste? Kim Borg from the Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University talks about the positives and negatives of using humour in socal marketing campaigns. Then Louise Kolff, specialist in visual communication and information graphics, explains how shock and shaming campaign strategies aren't the best way to get people on board to make positive changes to littering behavior, and the habituated use of plastic bags.2018-08-0900 min
3CR Community RadioThe digital panopticon and your role in the reputational economy‘To a degree citizens have naturalized the idea that it’s acceptable to be monitored’. That's Mark Furlong, independent researcher and cultural commentator. This week on Communication Mixdown he explains, and makes connections between everyday taken-for-granted surveillance and what's been called the reputational economy.2018-08-0200 min
3CR Community RadioEvery keystroke you make, every step you take, we'll be watching youTechnology journalist and commentator Stilgherrian covers the politics of the internet and digital culture with a special focus on security, privacy, and cybercrime. This week on Communication Mixdown, he talks about the vast global ecosystem of data collectors, data brokers, and advertising platforms that now make up the “surveillance economy”.2018-07-2600 min
3CR Community RadioCommunicating science - out of the lab, into the bushIn the era of alternative facts and fake news, scientists of all stripes are stepping out of their labs and off the pages of their specialist journals to communicate their ideas and their methodologies to a broader public.The Royal Society of Victoria's CEO Mike Flattley talks about some of ways the Society facilitates communication between scientists and the wider community. Then Jack Nunn, researcher in the Department of Public Health at La Trobe University, explains how communicating about science is best accomplished, not by talking about it, or reading about it, or seeing it played out in documentaries on...2018-07-1900 min
3CR Community RadioWho ya gonna call?So, you’re a television journalist working in Australia, and finally your big break arrives - a posting as the main correspondent in another country, say in Asia, maybe the Middle East. But you don’t speak the language, and and you don't know the intricacies of culture or georgraphy. And you want to dig out those really important stories, the ones that could be critical but aren’t in obvious places. So, to use the refrain from that 80’s pop song – “who ya gonna call?”Colleen Murrell, associate professor of journalism at Swinburne University, with a background in television journalism in...2018-07-1200 min
3CR Community RadioCommunication for men's healthMen are notoriously resistant to taking care of their own health or seeking out information about their health. That's the common assumption. The reality is a little different. But men, on lots of health criteria, don’t do as well as women. Could this have anything to do with communication, the way that health related information is communicated and used by men?To help negotiate and offer a few answers to that question Communication Mixdown talked with Simon von Saldern from Andrology Australia and Nicki Hodyl from Vertex Health about a survey they've just launched dealing with how men access and...2018-07-0500 min
3CR Community RadioTV weather presenters as climate communicatorsCommunication about the reality of climate change is slowly being mainstreamed. Recently, the head of the Australian Security and Investment Commission advised company directors that they had to start telling investors much more about the risks of climate change in relation to their investments, otherwise a company director could personally be sued over breaching their duty of care in the future.In this interview from the Communication Mixdown back catalogue, David Holmes director of the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, explains how television weather presenters can work as facilitators for the mainstreaming of climate change information.2018-06-2800 min
3CR Community RadioNever work with children or animals. Really?American vaudeville performer and film comedy actor W. C. Fields is reputed to have once said ‘never work with animals or children’. This week Communication Mixdown speaks with two guests who do just that.Artist Ben Landau, specialist in creating interactive experiences and performances that deconstruct closely held social, political and cultural assumptions talks about his current project, The Children’s Party: Think Tank Sessions, and how kids can communicate complex ideas like power and co-operation.Melissa Starling calls herself the creature teacher. Co-author of a just published book entitled "Making Dogs Happy", she explains some of the ways that dogs...2018-06-2100 min
3CR Community RadioRadiothon special: unsung heroes of 3CR communication“Fight For Your Mic” is 3CR's radiothon theme this year. It encapsulates the station’s ongoing commitment to social justice, equity, sustainability and progressive community involvement - fighting for a better world. In this special radiothon edition of the show, we ask the question – if 3CR is fighting for your mic, who’s making the mic work in the first place? What happens if the mic, or any other bit of equipment at the station needs fine-tuning, fixing or replacing, so that 3CR can keep the fight going for a better world?So much goes on in the background, behind the mic use...2018-06-1400 min
3CR Community RadioMusic culture and the making of music citiesWhat's a 'music city'? And how do you qualify to become one? This week, music and culture specialists Shane Homan from the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, and Catherine Strong from the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University explain. And, it turns out, Melbourne, with more live music venues per capita than anywhere else in the world, does indeed qualify.2018-06-0700 min
3CR Community RadioAustralia's first languages, surviving and thrivingA very auspicious time for Indigenous communities all around Australia - National Sorry Day on May 26, followed by National Reconciliation Week, and ending with Mabo Day on June 3, the commemoration of Eddie Mabo and the campaign leading to the 1992 landmark decision of the High Court overturning the legal fiction of terra nullius. Making sense of any idea of commemoration, or indeed, any idea of community leads inevitably to the tangible and intangible domain of language – how it’s used, how it embodies special cultural knowledge, and how it survives.Project officer with First Languages Australia, Annalee Pope, outlines her involvement with...2018-05-3100 min
3CR Community RadioWhen journalists lose their jobsIn Febrary this year a senate inquiry into the current state of public interest journalism noted that an massive 2,500 editorial jobs had been cut from media organizations in Australia since 2011. This month, in the latest round of job losses the ABC announced a further twenty journalists would be dropped from newsgathering teams.So what happens when journalists are made redundant? Researching this question through a project called New Beats, Lawrie Zion from the Department of Media and Communication at La Trobe University explains. (This interview was first broadcast in May 2017)2018-05-2400 min
3CR Community RadioInteractive mobile apps make intercultural connectionsThis week on Communication Mixdown we explore the connection between mobile digital technologies and intercultural communication. Natalie Denmeade is an educational games and mobile apps developer with Cultural Infusion, an organization in Melbourne that specializes in intercultural communication. Now living on Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania, Natalie explains how mobile phone based games for children are used to promote intercultual understanding, and she describes the ins and out of working as a globally connected games developer in a remote village dependent on solar panels for power.2018-05-1700 min
3CR Community RadioScientists as communicators - progress reportFirst up, Zoe Doubleday from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide explains some of the constaints confronting scientists when they want to write accessibly in order to communicate about their research work, and she offers a few solutions.Then, Melbourne University's earthquake research specialist, Mark Quigley describes the ways that scientists can improve communicating their research, particularly when trying to inform and influence key decision-makers.2018-05-1000 min
3CR Community RadioArt world meets BlockchainThe nexus between Blockchain and the world of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has been broken. Actually working as adecentralizing recordkeeping system, Blockchain has the potential to radically change the way information is stored and controlled. Blockchain is now being rolled out across a variety of social and cultural sectors.This week, we talk with Sharon Orbell, head of communications at ArtChain Global, a newly launched blockchain based initiative located in the world of art.2018-05-0300 min3CR Community RadioRememberance of conflicts past: digital and sonic memoryA replay the 2017 post-Anzac Day edition of Communication Mixdown, but the issues covered still resonating one year later.2018-04-2600 min
3CR Community RadioDigital rights, human rights: Facebook faces the music, part 2Revelations around the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal generated bucket loads of commentary, much of it focused on Facebook users as customers, or consumers. We're warned - read the fine print, look out for the contractual arrangement in the last paragraph. Sarah Joseph, the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, has different take - she says that if we’re going to put Facebook under the microscope let’s do it, not just from the point of view of the consumer, but in reference to human rights.Current and future directions of social media and...2018-04-1900 min
3CR Community RadioFacebook faces the music - the Cambridge Analytica scandal explainedThis week, investigative journalist Greg Foyster leads us over the highways and byways of social media to show that almost every aspect of what's come to be known as the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook data harvesting scandal could have been predicted from the recent history of various digital media platforms and tech companies.2018-04-1200 min
3CR Community RadioCan art really make a difference?That's the question Joanna Mendelssohn, former art critic and curator, asks as she contemplates Ai Weiwei's installation 'The Law of the Journey', a work that echoes and underscores the on-going global plight of refugees. This week on Communication Mixdown we follow Joanna as she traces the history of how some art forms and practices communicate with and about times of crisis and upheaval.2018-04-0500 min
3CR Community RadioHow do I look, what should I eat? Young people using and being used by social mediaFirst up, researcher in the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University, Jasmine Fardouly unpacks some of the negative effects of what have been called 'social media comparisons' on young women's self-perception and personal worth.Then, Teresa Davis, a specialist in consumer behavior and social marketing from the University of Sydney, talks about the ways that junk food brands try to cuddle up to kids on-line.2018-03-2200 min
3CR Community RadioWomen in media: the long hard roadJournalist, editor and co-founder of Women in Media, Alana Schetzer talks about their 2015 national survey 'Mates Over Merit?', a study of gender differences in Australian media, and whether dominant trends detected then have changed. Popular music and culture specialist, Catherine Strong from RMIT University in Melbourne explains why the annual Australian Recording Industry Association, the ARIA awards, are still 'off-key' when it comes to gender.2018-03-1500 min