Sybil Nolan

Books Versus Screens: A Study of Australian Children's Media Use During the COVID Pandemic

Sybil Nolan, Katherine Day, Wonsun Shin, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2022  |  PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY

As children’s use of screens increased during the COVID pandemic, their reading of traditional books was affected, a national surv..

Why history now?

Margaret Van Heekeren, Nolan Sybil

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journalism Review

This article considers the role and standing of the history of journalism and media within the academy in Australia. The authors t..

The shrinking of Fairfax Media’s books pages: A microstudy of digital disruption

Sybil Nolan, Matthew Ricketson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journalism Review

This microstudy of digital disruption in newspapers analyses the book review sections of Fairfax Media’s metropolitan dailies, The..

A sharper conversation: book publishers' use of social media marketing in the age of the algorithm

Sybil Nolan, Alexandra Dane

Journal article  |  2018  |  Media International Australia

This article explores developments in book publishers’ use of social media (SM) as a marketing tool, particularly the rise of cust..

Born Outside the Newsroom: The Creation of the Age Online

SD Nolan

Book Chapter  |  2017

The Age Online was the first major newspaper website in Australia. This essay relates the website's creation and the first tumultu..

The Snub: Robert Menzies and the Melbourne Club

Sybil Nolan

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Historical Studies

Bart Ziino’s scholarship illuminated some of the complex reasons behind thousands of Australian men’s failure to enlist for milita..

Reading The Discovery of India in the Library of an Australian Prime Minister

Sybil Nolan

Book Chapter  |  2017

Robert Menzies, prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941, and from 1949 to 1966, was an interested actor in the British Empir..

The Transition to Book: Problems of Narrative Structure in Journalists' Manuscripts

S NOLAN

Book Chapter  |  2016

Journalism's Long Cosmopolitan Turn

S NOLAN, MD Ricketson

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

The figure of the journalist as a ‘citizen of the world’ is deeply inscribed on journalism culture, yet in recent years new media ..

Robert Menzies: miners and the metals market crash of 1930

S NOLAN

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of Australasian Mining History

When base metal prices crashed in 1930, the mining industry rallied its political and media connections in its support. Melbourne,..