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• Virginia Nightingale is Chief Investigator for an ARC Discovery Project, The Power of the Image: Affect, Audience and Disturbing Imagery (2006 – 2008), with Associate Professor Anna Gibbs. The Discovery grant extends work initiated in a collaboratio...More

  Virginia Nightingale is Chief Investigator for an ARC Discovery Project, The Power of the Image: Affect, Audience and Disturbing Imagery (2006 – 2008), with Associate Professor Anna Gibbs. The Discovery grant extends work initiated in a collaboration in 1999 with the Australian Broadcasting Authority on the Media Harm Project (Monograph 10, UWS and ABA, 2000) with 10 to 15 year olds. Other research focused on young people and the media has included a study of western Sydney children and advertising (8 – 15 year olds), the Australian component of an international investigation of Global Disney (young adults), an investigation of young adults’ memories of childhood TV viewing, and a Prix Jeunesse project, led by Professor J.D Halloran (Leicester University, 1980) on the link between national stereotypes and the media (12- 15 year olds). In addition to her commitment to qualitative and ethnographic research, Virginia has a detailed understanding of audience measurement and audience development. She also writes on new media and research methods. Less

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