Purpose: This article analyses an Australian commercial radio talkback show that deployed prank as a strategy to scoop royal news to entertain an Australian audience, often commodified for popularity ratings and sponsorship dollars. Design/methodology/approach: Using textual analysis, the study empirically examined the crisis that followed the 2Day FM’s prank call to the Duchess of Cambridge at King Edward VII Hospital, London. The article engages with the media-made disaster from the lens of issue and crisis management interrogating social conversations and news stories across three countries, i.e., Australia, Britain and India. Findings: Findings reflect that the media, in this case, radio, far more than any other public entity, is subj...
The thesis examines a mediated crisis and how The Straits Times and The Australian approach the repo...
Abstract In recent years, the term ‘fake news’ has gained considerable traction in scholarly...
Moral panic has become a popular concept to explain a media frenzy that has provoked public alarm. A...
In Australia In 1999, a group of conservative and commercially dominant talkback radio hosts – prett...
This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio pract...
This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio pract...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
Using the reporting of the 2006 Beaconsfield mine disaster in Tasmania as a case study, this paper e...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
"Outrage Radio and the Shock Jock phenomenon are part of the evolution of Australian radio. Its ante...
This paper analyzes the discursive construction and contestation of 'leaked' stories in news broadca...
This study analyses the impact of trolling on journalists in the Australian news media between 2015 ...
The purpose of this research is to examine how saitrical television porgrams respond to tragedies in...
Much has been written about the alleged “crisis” of journalism, with narratives of cultural pessimis...
On the night of 12 October 2002, two bombs exploded in Bali, killing more than 200 people. The firs...
The thesis examines a mediated crisis and how The Straits Times and The Australian approach the repo...
Abstract In recent years, the term ‘fake news’ has gained considerable traction in scholarly...
Moral panic has become a popular concept to explain a media frenzy that has provoked public alarm. A...
In Australia In 1999, a group of conservative and commercially dominant talkback radio hosts – prett...
This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio pract...
This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio pract...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
Using the reporting of the 2006 Beaconsfield mine disaster in Tasmania as a case study, this paper e...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
"Outrage Radio and the Shock Jock phenomenon are part of the evolution of Australian radio. Its ante...
This paper analyzes the discursive construction and contestation of 'leaked' stories in news broadca...
This study analyses the impact of trolling on journalists in the Australian news media between 2015 ...
The purpose of this research is to examine how saitrical television porgrams respond to tragedies in...
Much has been written about the alleged “crisis” of journalism, with narratives of cultural pessimis...
On the night of 12 October 2002, two bombs exploded in Bali, killing more than 200 people. The firs...
The thesis examines a mediated crisis and how The Straits Times and The Australian approach the repo...
Abstract In recent years, the term ‘fake news’ has gained considerable traction in scholarly...
Moral panic has become a popular concept to explain a media frenzy that has provoked public alarm. A...