Dr Toija Cinque
M Comn&MSt, PhD (Mon)
Contact details | Research interests | Publications
Toija Cinque is a graduate of Swinburne University and Monash University. Toija’s goal is to help and encourage student learning. Her students are offered industry connections designed to enhance their research and career outcomes. They examine the changing relationships between the media, telecommunications and computing industries, while investigating the practices of electronic publishing and its impact on the communications industry and also explore the challenges of developing and delivering high-quality, user-focused content in a digital environment.
Toija co-ordinates the postgraduate unit New Communications Media. She also teaches into Issues in International Communications. Toija developed and was responsible for overseeing the Communications curriculum delivered online by Monash University in conjunction with Open Learning Australia (now Open Universities Australia) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Research interests
At the behest of the Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities (now the Australia Business Arts Foundation), she completed a study examining the many facets of cultural funding, including sponsorship and philanthropy. Entitled Sustaining the Arts: Funding Policies for the Arts and Culture in Australia, the purpose of this cultural study was to identify ways in which businesses and the community can benefit from the development of cultural policy. It was reported upon in the Australian Financial Review (Weekend, October 10-11, 1998: 8). Currently she is working on a book addressing public service broadcasting’s innovative response to new media.
Research supervision
Toija supervises postgraduate students in communications and media studies. Her research interests focus on:
- communications and media policy
- cultural studies
- public broadcasting
- digital television and datacasting
- internet use and regulation
- digital democracy
- globalisation
Publications
‘ABC Online: A Vortal for New Opportunities?’, a peer reviewed article for Australian Journal of Communication, 34(3), 2008.
‘Custodians for the Future: Media, Art and Cultural Policy in Australia’, Australia Who Cares? David Callahan (ed). Griffin Press: Australia, pp 133-151, 2007.
‘The ABC and SBS Online: From Portal to Vortal’, Communication, Civics, Industry, ANZCA and La Trobe University, 2007. (See: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ANZCA2007/proceedings.html )
‘Digital Television: UK Public Policy and the Market’, Media Arts Law Review, 12(4), p 535-540, 2007.
‘The Impact of Globalisation on Cultural Policies: A Call for Universal Social Responsibility’, A refereed article for International Journal of the Humanities, 2006. (See: http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.437 )
Sustaining the Arts: Funding Policies for the Arts and Culture in Australia, a report compiled at the behest of the Australia Business Arts Foundation: Melbourne, 1998.
Refereed conference paper presentations
Ninth International Women in Asia (WIA) Conference: Transition and Interchange at the University of Queensland, 29 September-1 October 2008.
‘The ABC and SBS Online: From Portal to Vortal’. Australian New Zealand Communication Association’s Annual Conference on Communication, Civics, Industry. University of Melbourne, 5-7 July 2007.
‘The Impact of Globalisation on Cultural Policies: A Call for Universal Social Responsibility’. 2nd International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Monash Prato Campus, Italy, 20-23 July 2004.
‘Custodians for the Future: Media, Art and Cultural Policy in Australia’, 7th European Association for Studies on Australia, University of Aveiro, Portugal, 23-27 September 2003.
