Jay Daniel Thompson
RMIT University, School of Media and Communication, Faculty Member
- Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson is Senior Lecturer, Professional Communication in the School of Media and Communication at RM... moreDr. Jay Daniel Thompson is Senior Lecturer, Professional Communication in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. His research asks what 'ethical online communication' might look like, and how this might mitigate digital hostility and networked disinformation. Dr Thompson has published on these topics in Q1 (Scimago index) journals such as Convergence, Feminist Media Studies, Media International Australia, Journalism and Continuum.
Dr. Thompson is the co-author of two books, both published in 2022: Fake News in Digital Cultures (Emerald Publishing; co-authored with Professor Rob Cover and Dr Ashleigh Haw) and Content Production for Digital Media: An Introduction (Springer Nature; co-authored with Associate Professor John Weldon). He is currently under contract with Routledge to write a manuscript on media ethics and journalistic reportage on conspiracies.
He can be contacted via email at [email protected]edit
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This special issue of New Scholar has its genesis in the conference 'The View from Above: Cosmopolitan Culture and its Critics,' which was held between 22 and 23 September 2014 at the University of Melbourne. The conference was the... more
This special issue of New Scholar has its genesis in the conference 'The View from Above: Cosmopolitan Culture and its Critics,' which was held between 22 and 23 September 2014 at the University of Melbourne. The conference was the brainchild of four Early Career Researchers with academic backgrounds in literary studies. The aim of the conference was to provide an intellectually stimulating and collegial environment for postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers from a range of disciplines. The theme of 'cosmopolitanism' was agreed upon as one that would appeal to this diverse and interdisciplinary group. In what follows, we consider the diversity of perspectives on 'cosmopolitanism,' as well as how the 'cosmopolitan' traverses disciplinary boundaries.
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The emergence of queer theory and politics in the 1990s was widely touted as heralding a new era of sexual inclusivity. However, this has not proved to be the case for everyone. This fictocritical essay features three vignettes of gay... more
The emergence of queer theory and politics in the 1990s was widely touted as heralding a new era of sexual inclusivity. However, this has not proved to be the case for everyone. This fictocritical essay features three vignettes of gay male Asian migrants living in Australia. We suggest that the sense of belonging these men develop is complex and difficult. All three subjects find themselves straddling two artificially polarised worlds: the white and modern world of ‘gay Australia’ and the racialised and striated ‘migrant’ world. This work explores some intersections of sexuality, belonging,
race and migration in contemporary Australia through alternating acts of scholarly and creative writing.
race and migration in contemporary Australia through alternating acts of scholarly and creative writing.
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Interview with Professor Fiona Nicoll
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Invited paper delivered at The View from Above: Cosmopolitan Culture and its Critics. University of Melbourne, 23 September 2014.
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Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand... more
Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...
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Published in Fear Within Melting Boundaries, eds. Lee Baxter and Paula Braescu, 2011, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/fear-within-melting-boundaries/
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Published in 'The Weekend Australian', 26-27 September 2015
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Introduction Nancy Thompson (Heather Langekamp) is one angry teenager. She’s just discovered that her mother Marge (Ronee Blakley) knows about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the strange man with the burnt flesh and the switchblade... more
Introduction Nancy Thompson (Heather Langekamp) is one angry teenager. She’s just discovered that her mother Marge (Ronee Blakley) knows about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the strange man with the burnt flesh and the switchblade fingers who’s been killing her friends in their dreams. Marge insists that there’s nothing to worry about. “He’s dead, honey,” Marge assures her daughter, “because mommy killed him.” This now-famous line neatly encapsulates the gender politics of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). We argue that in order to fully understand how gender operates in Nightmare, it is useful to read the film within the context of the historical period in which it was produced. Nightmare appeared during the early years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Reagan valorised the white, middle-class nuclear family. Reagan’s presidency coincided with (and contributed to) the rise of ‘family values’ and a corresponding anti-feminism. During this era, both ‘family values’ and an...