Dr Nicola Goc
Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Media and Communications
Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator, Journalism, Media and Communications
Graduate Coordinator, School of English, Journalism and European Languages
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I came to academic life almost a decade ago after a career in news journalism and later social history writing. My PhD, Medicine, Medea and the Media (2007), looks at how news journalists create compelling narratives that frame mothers, whose children die in unexplained circumstances, as ‘deviant’ (the ‘Medea Factor’). It analyses how the news media privileges sources and how this influences the media’s representation of the maternal figure. I have published widely on media representation and the ‘deviant’ female, and on celebrity mothers and the media. I am currently writing a book on infanticide and the press 1822-1922. I am particularly interested in how journalism frames women and girls from both an historical and contemporary perspective.
My research interests also include: media and journalism history (I have published articles and book chapters on British, Irish and Australian journalism history); the narrative structure of news; media and journalism ethics; the news image; journalism and the courts and media representation.
To view copies of selected journal articles and book chapters please go to E-prints on the UTAS website: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/
SUPERVISION
I have supervised and am currently supervising projects that relate to:
- Media and journalism history
- Narrative and journalism
- Media and journalism ethics
- Moral panic and the news media
- Gender representation and the media
- Journalism and medicine
- Journalism and the judicial system
