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This article outlines how data-driven and computational methods can be integrated with traditional forms of discourse and linguistic analysis to examine and evaluate online public diplomacy activities (‘digital diplomacy’) and the publics’ engagement with these artefacts. Combined with reviews of strategy and policy documents, the three techniques – large data, small stories and policy analysis – offer a triangulation of combined approaches to create a rigorous approach to evaluation. We aim to provide an adaptable methodological template for replicable studies, with the underlying premise being that combining three lines of inquiry – document review, large data sets and computational analyses, and close, contextual reading – can triangulate to produce nuanced, robust evaluations with both granularity and generalisability. If, as one UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) report argues, evaluation efforts can seem “like a forester going out to measure how fast his trees have grown overnight without a ruler” (Vitner and Knox in Engagement: Public diplomacy in a globalised world. UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, 2008), in our triangulated approach, one line of analysis uses distant reading to map the ‘forest’, another uses close reading to examine the ‘trees’, and a third references policy and strategy to determine the seemingly absent ‘ruler’.

This article outlines original empirical research using a quantitative computer-assisted big data approach to survey and evaluate the representation of Australia in popular South Korean online news media sources. This is an exploratory content analysis of news reporting (in Korean and English) on Australia in key Korean digital news media providers and distributors over a six-month-period during which certain key events occurred that drew Korean news media attention to Australia. The research aims to address the fundamental question: what forms and patterns of representation of Australia are present in South Korean online news media? It is designed in large part to understand how Australia is present as a theme in Korean online news, and how this theme is contextualized by associated topics, such as trade, security, or tourism. The quantitative analysis is augmented using a qualitative method: a series of key informant interviews conducted with editors and journalists responsible for the production and prioritization of news. Further, it is interpreted by locating the research in the context of the Australia-South Korea relationship. We summarize the complexities that arise when analyzing large amounts of textual content, especially from two very different languages, discuss the opportunities that arise from mixed methods—by combining big data (breadth) with contextual analysis (depth) and offer suggestions for aspiring researchers.

This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current media practices and their innovative, transformative and disruptive uses at the local, the regional, the national, and the global level. In particular, it analyses mobile media not as a discrete object, but rather as part of a dynamic communication and information environment in which human-object relations are constantly reconfigured. It covers key theoretical and conceptual themes in youth mobile media research focusing on social, cultural and political aspects, including coverage of key themes such as regulation and technology, practices, pedagogies, aesthetics, social change, and representations of mobile youth. The book includes new accounts of recent research into the uses of mobile media by young people, and how these are situated in a broader socio-political context. Case studies include mobile panics in Australia (the notorious Kings of Wirrabee sexual assault case) and Japan (the scandals of high school girls as teenage prostitutes) in which mobile media use has had significant impact. This book offers an up-to-date examination of the influence of information communication technologies on young people’s lives in the region. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Dean of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her most recent publications include Global Media Studies: Theories and Approaches ; Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism and Social Change; The State of China Atlas ; and Little Friends: Children’s Film and Media Culture in China . Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Practices, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. Damien Spry is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia. Part I Introduction – Why mobility matters: young people and media competency in the Asia-Pacific - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Part II 1. Angels and devils: youth mobile media politics, fear, hope and policy in Japan and Australia - Damien Spry 2. Japanese mobile youth in the 2000s - Misa Matsuda 3. ‘Your phone makes you, you’: exploring the youth script in teen magazine representations of mobile media - Sun Sun Lim 4. The traditional meets the technological: mobile navigations of desire and intimacy - Cara Wallis Part III 5. The price of being mobile: youth, gender and mobile media - Larissa Hjorth 6. The city, self and connections: ‘transyouth’ and urban social networking in Seoul - Jaz Hee-jeong Choi 7. The representation of mobile youth in the post-colonial techno-nation of Korea - Kyongwon Yoon Part IV 8. Official and unofficial mobile media in Australia: youth, panics, innovation - Gerard Goggin 9. Mobile design: giving voice to children and young people - Theresa Anderson

Presented here is a theoretical, historical and analytical position that reexamines human rights as discursively generated cultural products, introducing a conceptual tool, 'communicative activism', which can be usefully employed to analyse and interpret forms of human rights discourse employed by non-governmental organisations and others who seek to support and promote human rights standards and practices. Theoretically, this is grounded in Habermasian notions of communicative rationality and Foucauldian notions of critique that, although usually positioned as contradictory, are here presented as having an important commonality - an emphasis on inter-discursive modes of cultural knowledge production and legitimisation. Historically, human rights theory and philosophy is positioned in a post-ontological phase, emphasising therefore that human rights are less 'self-evident' or pre-existing and therefore able to be 'recognised' than they are discursive products in an ongoing historical process of re-articulation. Analytically, the concept of 'communicative activism' is provided with a suggested methodological framework and employed to critically engage with some aspects of contemporary human rights discourse through a case study of Amnesty International.

In 2007, a group of teenage boys in Victoria, Australia use a mobile phone camera to record, for the purposes of distribution, footage of themselves sexually abusing and torturing a developmentally challenged teenage girl in a public park; in 2008, a Sydney high-school English teacher allows students to use their mobile phones to call for help during an examination. By 2010, says the Japanese Ministry for Internal Affairs and Communications, 80 per cent of all Japanese people will appreciate the role of ICT (information communications technology) in ‘solving social problems’ and will ‘feel safe using ICT’; in 2009, the Japanese Minister for Education follows the lead of several town mayors in calling for a complete ban of mobile phones in all elementary and junior high schools. In each of these cases – as discussed further in this chapter – the confluenceof mobile media, childhood and public policy is brought into sharp relief. The use of mobile media by children, and whether and how it should be regulated, is a growing area of public debate and scholarly concern. The debate follows traditions in media policy studies that explore the influences which television and, later, video games and the Internet, have had on children’s lives, and also builds upon significant scholarly work done over the previous decade on the social and cultural impacts of mobile media in the lives of children and young people. In this chapter, I aim to foreground the ongoing debates about children and the media by examining the examples outlined above as sites of tension between varying views of childhood and the impacts of new media thereon; specifically, I aim to focus on how the relationships between children and mobile media are expressed politically in policy statements and in public discourse. Buckingham (2000) addresses the politics of childhood and media in hisinfluential and seminal work After the Death of Childhood: Growing up in the Age of Electronic Media. Focusing first of all on television and then the Internet, he underscores how attitudes towards childhood and media are often based on adult anxieties about putting children at risk, on adult aspirations about and for a new ‘Net Generation’ of media-savvy creative types, or on theagendas of children’s media producers and toy manufacturers whose eyes light up at the prospect of new, increasingly influential and lucrative markets. In this adult-centric discourse, children’s voices are either not heard, or are paid insufficient heed. As a result, children’s worlds are perceived and discussed as separate from adult worlds – and especially from the worlds of sex, violence and (less so, I would suggest) work and commerce. Acknowledging the obvious difficulties inherent in attributing agency to children, Buckingham nevertheless calls upon media scholars to take seriously the challenge of discussing the politics of children’s media use:If children are increasingly using the media to gain access to aspects of the ‘adult’ world, how do we respond to this? Is a defensive, protectionist stance either desirable or realistic? Alternatively, can we resort to a liberationist argument, asserting children’s freedom to choose? Do we look to ‘privatized’ solutions which place responsibility in the hands of individuals – families, parents or children themselves? Or can we imagine more explicitly political responses, in the public sphere of social and cultural institutions?

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