Dr Carolyne Lee
Lecturer, Media and Communications
Qualifications
Bachelor of Education and Graduate Diploma of Education (Deakin University), Master of Arts (English, La Trobe University), PhD (English, La Trobe University)
Biography
Carolyne Lee joined the University of Melbourne's Media and Communications Program at its inception in July 2000. Prior to that she taught in the Technical and Further Education sector for 12 years, and in the University's Centre for Communication Skills and ESL for four years. From Dec 2006 to July 2007 she worked in France, doing research, studying French, and teaching English media writing at Universite Paris-Diderot.
Current research
Linguistic and discourse analysis of media prose, gender and media
Current research project:
DP0986773
In the Prime of Life: 21st-century women talk about their middle years.
Current (edited) book, an ethnographic anthology; under review
Research interests
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Linguistic and discourse analysis of media prose (especially newspapers), rhetoric and media writing, gender and media, ethnography, professional writing and communication pedagogy
Knowledge transfer
Op-ed on young men and street violence in The Herald Sun, 30 October 2007 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22668529-5000117,00.html
Presented research (with Emeritus Professor Marc Cogan, Wayne State University) on using Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis to analyse political newspaper columns at the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Conference at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, 9-11 January 2008.
Presented a paper on the use of argument-diagramming software at the Digital Humanities Conference at the Sorbonne, Paris, July 5-9 2006,
Co-wrote a paper on the 2005 Sydney Riots at the Conference on Le Fait Divers in Lyons, France, March 22-23 2006
Teaching
Full subject descriptions are available in the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Research Student Supervisions
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Reality is a bitch: deconstructing the journey of the self in aspirational reality television programming. (Winnie Salamon, PhD candidate)
- Negotiating affect: thinking critical miscommunication through embodied response (an analysis of the press reporting of Van Nguyen's execution). (Genevieve Berrick, PhD candidate)
MAs passed
- Lionize, Idolize, and Ironize: an examination of Australian celebrity magazines and their contributions to the public sphere (Melissa James, 2006)
- Nation Building and Cultural Rights: The Representation of Chinese Minorities in Indonesian Newspapers (Ezmieralda Melissa, 2006)
Publications
Books
- Power Prose: Writing Skills for the Media Age. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2004.
Edited Books
- Who'd Be A Mother (co-edited with Susan Burke). Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1990.
Book chapters
- From Dog Leads to Dying: Moderate Talkback as a Rhetorical Space for Democratic Processes. In Radio in the World E-book: http://search.informit.com.au
Journal articles
- Lee CR. 2007. The “two-sided” medium: Can talk radio be good for democracy?. Metro Magazine, no. 155, 2007.
- Lee, CR. 2007. ‘Relatively benign corruption’?: teaching discourse analysis. Australian Journal of Communication, 34(2), Dec 2007.
- Lee, CR. 2007. Mornings with Radio 774: Can John Howard's Medium of Choice Enhance Public Sphere Activity? In Media International Australia, Feb 2007.
Book reviews
- Switched On: Conversations with Influential Women in the Australian Media, ed. Catherine Hanger. In Media International Australia, August 2007.
Conference papers
- Co-written with Dominique Hecq. 'Real Life' Packaged for Consumers: the fait divers as a heuristic for scrutinizing the construction of moral panics in the Australian Press. In Méedias et Culture, Spring 2007(Equipe de recherche sur les systèmes d'information et de communication des organisations et sur les médias (ERSICOM), Université de Lyon 3). In press.
Creative works - minor
- Short story 'Woman of the End Times' published in Australian Women's Book Review, Volume 16 Number 1 2004 (online journal, published by the Australian Women's Studies Association).