📚 New from our 3C community! A/Prof Long Nguyen's new book chapter is out in Professional Communication(Routledge, 2026): "Communication and Media Landscapes." Platform fragmentation, AI content, credibility challenges — a sharp look at digital media's shifts. 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781... #3CRMIT

New research from @jaydanielthompson.bsky.social asks: what does ethical reporting on online abuse against women look like? Journalists reject "objectivity" as a cop-out. Outlets disable comments to limit harm. Newsroom culture is still catching up. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2204... #MediaEthics

📘 New: Social Marketing and Behaviour Change: From Theory to Action by Brennan, @lukasparker.com, Micallef & Luu. A revised toolkit of behaviour change models for #socialmarketing, health promo & beyond. New chapters on macro-social marketing & systems models. 🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...

PUBLICATION TODAY: I ask what Australia’s (ultimately unsuccessful) Combating Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024 suggests about the tough balance between curbing mis/disinformation and protecting freedom of expression. #research www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Kids + brands + games = 🎮💰. New study: Korean mothers clock the addiction risk but miss the sneaky ad persuasion baked into advergames. Their fix? "Stop-and-take-a-break." Simple, low-tech, works. 👏 by Eunji Cho & 3C’s Dooyeon Park 🔗 doi.org/10.1108/YC-0... #ConsumerResearch

🔥 New research from 3C member Sharon Smith: "It's Trauma Season" Aussie journalists cover bushfires & floods in their own communities — while surviving them too. Sharon's study unpacks the emotional labour of being both newsbearer and survivor. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/1461... #Journalism #3C

📺🏳️‍🌈 New from 3C: Damien O'Meara (RMIT) & Whitney Monaghan (Monash) chart 3 decades of queer TV storyworlds — from Queer as Folk to Heartstopper — across the US, UK, Australia & Canada. Turns out queer stories thrive on industrial disruption. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1749...

📱 New research: the hidden cost of journalism's social media hustle. @dbossio.bsky.social & Jonathon Hutchinson reframe journalist wellbeing through an "ethics of care" lens — care for others and care for self. doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2655242 #JournalismResearch

Congratulations!

Baray Llagas@baray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just passed my third milestone for my PhD! The end is nigh, but there’s more writing and thinking to be done. Grateful to my supervisors, the review panel, and everyone who has been part of this crazy journey in one way or another. 1/2

🎉 My new book chapter "People and Persuasion" is out in Professional Communication (Routledge, 2026)! Great persuasion starts with truly understanding people — their biases, values, and identity. Co-authored with Shima Saniei. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.4324/9781...

People and Persuasion | 18 | Professional Communication | Shima Saniei

This chapter explores persuasion as a fundamental aspect of human communication, shaping how we think, feel, and act in everyday life and professional settings.

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I am delighted that our new book, Professional Communication: Influencing, Engaging and Transforming, is now officially released. Professional Communication is best ordered through your library or purchased from the usual websites doi.org/10.4324/9781... #ProfComm @3c-rmit.bsky.social

Ask your library to get a copy of our new book launched this week: Social Marketing and Behaviour Change: From Theory to Action doi.org/10.4337/9781... #socmar

Rapt that this chapter is out in the wild! It explores the multitude, and often competing, elements of packaging design. Understanding how the different elements work (and don't) is critical to finding ways to assist people to end food waste. doi.org/10.1016/B978... #EndFoodWaste #sustainabity

Check out this new report “Communicating to CALD Communities about energy: Best practice engagement to connect with digitally excluded groups”. Authored by 3C's Leah Li, David Micallef, @dbossio.bsky.social & @lukasteo.bsky.social Funded by AusNet communityhub.ausnetservices.com.au/HOME-Grant/r...

RMIT University | AusNet's Helping Our Mission for Equity Grant

Exploring how Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities navigate the energy transition in Victoria.

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Check out the latest issue of Public Relations Review for an article by 3C’s David Micallef and Juan Feng with @eddyhurc.bsky.social (also from RMIT University): “Long live Darth Vapour! Examining how audiences engage with influencers in an anti-vaping campaign”: doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

Check out the latest edition of Journalism Studies for an article by Christine Kearney with 3C’s Lisa Waller: “Bodying the War Correspondent: Deploying Creative Practice to Explore the Reporter's Body as a Sense-Making Tool” doi.org/10.1080/1461... #journalism #foreigncorrespondent

Check out the latest edition of Conservation Biology for an article by Gregg, Garrard, Bekessy, Kusmanoff, Martin, Selinske, Kidd along with 3C’s Jenny Robinson: “Barriers to public engagement with biodiversity conservation” doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #biodiversity #conservation #behaviourchange

What is journalistic cultural competence? Find out in the latest @mediaintaus.bsky.social article by 3C's Shi Feng, Leah Li and @wakeinfright.bsky.social. Here: doi.org/10.1177/1329...

Spotted in the wild - my book, in stores as of this week!

We are hiring a 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐭𝐰𝐨-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 examining gender norms, gaming influencers and tween boys! rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...

Check out the latest edition of @Social Sciences for an article by 3C’s @dbossio.bsky.social with Andrea Carson (La Trobe University): “Who Really Leads? A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Equity in Leadership of Australian Newsrooms” doi.org/10.3390/socs... #journalism #genderequity

Check out the latest article in Communication and the Public—The platforming is the point: News media, ‘the oxygen of amplification’, and interviewing the far-right by @jaydanielthompson.bsky.social and Kurt Sengul (Macquarie University): doi.org/10.1177/2057...

PhD candidate Brian Llagas has been invited to speak at the Australasian Packaging Conference at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth from day 6-7th this May. He will present his research on addressing consumer confusion with date labels and storage advice in food packaging to help reduce household food waste.

Check out the latest research by Dr. Xiufang (Leah) Li: China-Africa relations: Intention, aspiration, and a shared future through the means of football in Global China and the Global Game. Read it here: ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/rea... #SportsDiplomacy #China #Africa

Check out the latest research published in Future Foods: Consumer perceptions of date labelling and storage advice and its relationship with food waste: A systematic scoping review of the academic & grey literature by Brian Llagas. Read more about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu.... #FoodWaste

Check out the latest report from Dr. TJ Thomson via APO: "Generative AI & Journalism: Content, journalistic perceptions, and audience experiences." Read it here: apo.org.au/node/329601 #GenerativeAI #Journalism

Check out the latest edition of Media International Australia for an article by 3C’s @wakeinfright.bsky.social with Sharon Smith: “Reporting hunger strikes in the context of climate action”. Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1329... #journalism #hungerstrike #climatechange

Check out this latest chapter in The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society by 3C’s Michaela Jackson with Clea Bourne from Goldsmiths University: AI Ethics Are Not Enough: Public Relations, Social Justice and Artificial Intelligence.

A huge congratulations to 3C's Professor Linda Brennan for being recognised by RMIT University’s College of Design and Social Context with an Award for Research Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision!

I was given about 35 seconds to write a quick update for The Conversation on the news media bargaining code and what is essentially the Albanese govt trying to force Meta back to the bargaining table with a a fully offset levy. You can read about it here: theconversation.com/news-bargain...

News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta

The government has been playing ‘four-dimensional chess’ to work out how to drag big tech back to the bargaining table with news publishers. So, will this new scheme work?

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