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Ms Dianne Jones

Name :	Ms Dianne Jones
Position :	Lecturer (Broadcast Journalism)
Section :	Faculty of Arts School of Humanities and Communication
Office :	Q214
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1052
Extension :	1052
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA Qld MA(Hons) Wollongong

Professional Memberships

Journalism Education Association of Australia (JEAA)
Public Memory Research Centre, USQ

Professional Affiliations

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (AJA)

Research Interests

AWARDS/GRANTS

* Recipient 2011 (for 2012) USQ Equity Incentives Fund Competitive Grants Scheme : Staff PhD Completion Scholarship

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* News media and local communities : USQ Early Career Researcher Grant recipient (2005); Faculty of Arts Research Grant recipient (2009).
* Gender representation in traditional and online news and sports media : Faculty of Arts Research Grant recipient (2010)
* Reporting cultural diversity : Faculty of Arts Research Grant co-recipient (2010)
* Innovative teaching practices including problem-based learning : USQ Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award recipient (2006)
* The tertiary student experience : USQ Equity Incentives Fund Research Grant co-recipient (2006)
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** My RESEARCH has been cited in:

North, L. (2012), "The gendered world of sports reporting in the Australian print media", JOMEC Journal: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 2 November, pp. 1-22, available at http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/jomecjournal/2_november2012/north_womenssport.pdf

Kian, E. and Clavio, G. (2011), "A comparison of online and traditional newspaper coverage of the men's and women's U.S. Open tennis tournaments", Journal of Sports Media, Vol. 6. No. 1, Spring, pp. 55-84.

Smith, L.R. (2011), The less you say: an initial study of gender coverage in sports on Twitter. In A. Billings (Ed.), Sports media: transformation, integration, consumption. New York: Routledge.

Bruce, T., Hovden, J. and Markula, P. (2010), Content analysis, liberal feminism and the importance of mapping the media terrain. In T. Bruce, J. Hovden and P. Markula (Eds.), Sportswomen at the Olympics: a global content analysis of newspaper coverage. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Lumby, C., Caple, H. and Greenwood, K. (2010), "Towards a level playing field: sport and gender in Australian media", available at http://www.ausport.gov.au/participating/women/research

Kian, E., Mondello, M. and Vincent, J. (2009), "ESPN - The women's sports network? A content analysis of Internet coverage of March Madness", Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, September, pp.477-495.

Van Vuuren, K. (2009), "Press bias and local power in the Toowoomba water referendum", Communication, Politics & Culture, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 55-73.

Andersen, N. et al (2007), "Ready, steady, go! Reconstructing media sport coverage", a paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Meeting, Journalism Studies Division.

Van Vuuren, K. (2007), "Contours of community: the independent community press in southeast Queensland", Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, No. 124, August, pp. 96-107.

Real, M. (2006), Sports online: the newest player in mediasport. In A. Raney & J. Bryant (Eds.), Handbook of sports and media. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Australian Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee (2006), "About time! Women in sport and recreation in Australia", September 6, Australian Government.

Australian Sports Commission (2006), "Women and sport", available at http://www.ausport.gov.au/women/fsmedia.asp

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Most notable :

Jones, D. (2012), “Swifter, higher, stronger? Online media representations of gender during the 2008 Olympic Games”, in Harmes, M.K., Henderson, L., Harmes, B. and Antonio, A. (eds.), The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society: Refereed proceedings of the conference hosted by the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, July 2nd-July 5th 2012 (Toowoomba), pp. 217-233. ISBN 978-0-9874082-0-4 (print) and 978-0-9874082-1-1 (electronic).

Jones, D. (2011), "e-campaigning in local elections: Out with the old, in with the new?", a paper presented at the 115th Annual Conference of the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ), Gold Coast Convention Centre, October 6.

Jones, D. (2010), "Women's sports coverage: online images of the 2008 Olympic Games", Australian Journalism Review, 32(2), pp.89-102.

Jones, D. (2010), Book review: David Salter, The media we deserve: underachievement in the fourth estate. Labour History: a Journal of Labour and Social History, 98, pp. 281-282.

Jones, D. (2009), The representation of female athletes in online images of successive Olympic Games (republished). In A. Ghose (Ed.), Sports and media. Hyderabad, India: Icfai University Press.

Jones, D. (2008), "Online sports reporting of female athletes: an analysis of coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games", a paper presented at the Journalism Education Association of Australia Conference, UoW, Wollongong, December 1-3.

Jones, D. and Feldman, A. (2006), "Local media and local elections: voters' preferred information sources", Australian Journalism Review, 28(1), pp.43-56.

Jones, D. (2006), "The representation of female athletes in online images of successive Olympic Games", Pacific Journalism Review, 12(1), April, pp.108-129.

Jones, D. (2006), "Picture this: a cross-national study of the portrayal of female athletes in images of the 2004 Olympic Games on two Web sites", a paper presented at the International Sports Studies Conference, VUT, Melbourne, March 6-8.

Jones, D. (2006), "Taking the bypass: voters' use of local media during a local election", a paper presented at the 2nd Joint JEANZ/JEA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, December 4-6.

Jones, D. (2005), "Problem-based learning and critical analysis of practice in online news media", Australian Studies in Journalism, 14, pp.97-113.

Kiernan, E., Jones, D., Lawrence, J. and Hagan R. (2005), "Indigenous students' experiences and the pedagogy of a core first year university course: a case study", a paper presented at the Second International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, USQ, Toowoomba, September 18-20.

Jones, D. (2005), "Reaching out: Indigenous communicators and their strategies", a paper presented at Transformations, An International Conference on Global and Local Trends in Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, ANU, Canberra, February 7-9.

Jones, D. (2005), "Underexposed: images of sportswomen on ABC News Online", a paper presented at the Journalism Education Association Conference, Surfers Paradise, November 29-December 2.

Jones, D. (2004), "Half the story: Olympic women on ABC News Online", Media International Australia, 110, February, pp.132-146.

Jones, D. (2003), "Critical analysis of practice in online news media", a paper presented at the Journalism Education Association Conference, Sydney, November 26-28.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

Examiner and team leader:

JRN2002 Radio Journalism (ONC) and (X) in s1

JRN2005 Broadcast Reporting (ONC) in s2

JRN3002 Broadcast Newsroom (ONC) in s1

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 12 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Discipline representative, Journalism, School of Humanities and Communication

Program co-ordinator, Graduate Diploma of Journalism

Member, Faculty of Arts Board

Member, Faculty of Arts ADOSP Committee

Member, Faculty of Arts Appeals Committee

Member, Faculty of Arts Learning and Teaching Committee

Former Chair, Faculty of Arts Assembly