By Associate Professor Helen Caple

Journal articles

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2014, 'Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analyzing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond', Discourse and Society: an international journal for the study of discourse and communication in their social, political and cultural contexts, 25, pp. 135 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926513516041

Ogoanah FN, 2013, 'Re-reading August Wilson’s Fences', English Text Construction, 6, pp. 213 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.6.2.01ogo

Caple H, 2013, 'Competing for Coverage: Exploring emerging discourses on female athletes in the Australian print media', English Text Construction, 6, pp. 271 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.6.2.03cap

Caple H; Bogle M, 2013, 'Making group assessment transparent: What wikis can contribute to collaborative projects', Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 38, pp. 198 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2011.618879

Caple H; Bednarek MN, 2012, ''Value added': Language, image and news values', Discourse, Context and Media, 1, pp. 103 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2012.05.006

Caple H; Knox J, 2012, 'Online news galleries, photojournalism and the photo essay', Visual Communication, 11, pp. 207 - 236

Caple H; Greenwood K; Lumby C, 2011, 'What League?: The Representation of Female Athletes in Australian Television Sports Coverage', Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture and Policy, pp. 137 - 146, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=346084103573693;res=IELHSS

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2010, 'Double take: unpacking the play in the image-nuclear news story', Visual Communication, 9, pp. 1 - 19

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2010, 'Playing with environmental stories in the news – good or bad practice?', Discourse and Communication, 4, pp. 5 - 31

Conference Papers

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2017, 'Introducing a new topology for (multimodal) discourse analysis.', in Chappell P; Knox JS (ed.), Transforming Contexts. Papers from the 44th International Systemic Functional Congress, Wollongong, Australia, presented at International Systemic Functional Congress, Wollongong, Australia, 10 July 2017 - 14 July 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26417

Allen B; Coleman KS; Nguyen T; Caple H, 2012, 'Creativity in practice: Social media in higher education', in Proceedings, ASCILITE, Wellington, pp. 16 - 20, presented at ascilite 2012 Conference, Wellington, NZ, http://www.ascilite2012.org/images/custom/allen,_belinda_-_creativity_in.pdf

Caple H, 2009, 'Educating Aunty: How prepared are ABC cadet journalists for the digital age?', Perth, Australia, presented at JEAA Conference, Perth, Australia, 30 November 2009 - 02 December 2009

Caple H, 2009, 'Sharing ‘uncommon’ ground: how news reporting construes readership through word-image play', Melbourne, Australia, presented at International Pragmatics Conference 2009, Melbourne, Australia, 12 July 2009 - 17 July 2009

Caple H, 2007, 'Multimodal Communication in Print Newspaper Stories – A New News Genre', in Proceedings. 4th International Symposium on Genre Studies, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarao, Brazil, presented at 4th International Symposium on Genre Studies, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarao, Brazil, 15 August 2007 - 18 August 2007

Caple H, 2006, 'Nuclearity in the News Story – The Genesis of Image Nuclear News Stories', in Empowerment, Creativity and Innovation: Challenging Media and Communication in the 21st Century, Australia and New Zealand Communication Association and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, presented at Australian & New Zealand Communication Association International Conference, 2006: Empowerment, Creativity and Innovation: Challenging Media and Communication in the 21st Century, Adelaide, 05 July 2006 - 07 July 2006

Caple H, 2006, 'Intermodal Relations in Image Nuclear News Stories', in Multimodal Texts & Multiliteracies: Semiotic Theory and Practical Pedagogy, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, presented at National Conference of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, University of New England, Armidale, NSW

Conference Posters

Tian P; Caple H, 2020, 'The world re-presented: The transformational role of images in Australian early childhood literature', UNSW, presented at The Image 2020 Conference, UNSW, 09 September 2020

Conference Presentations

Caple H, 2022, 'From Other-representation to Self-representation: Exploring identity and activism in historical news media writing', presented at Corpus & Discourse Conference, Bertinoro, Italy, 26 August 2022 - 28 August 2022

Caple H, 2021, 'Platforming politics in the public domain', presented at XVI Congress of the Latin American Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics, Montevideo, Uruguay, 03 November 2021 - 05 November 2021

Caple H; Tian P, 2021, 'Embedding multimodal critical literacy: a reflection on co-production and research impact', presented at ASFLA, UQ, Queensland, 29 September 2021 - 01 October 2021

Caple H; Tian P, 2020, 'Diversity in early childhood picture books', presented at ICA Pre-Conference on Visual Representation & Marginality, QUT, Queensland, 21 May 2020 - 21 May 2020

Caple H, 2019, 'News Photography and National Holidays: China v Australia', presented at Journalism Education and Research Association Australia, University of Sydney, NSW, 04 December 2019

Caple H, 2019, 'Flagging discourses of change on Australia Day: How a nation remembers', presented at Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference, University of Sydney, 02 October 2019

Caple H, 2019, 'Putting visual and verbal resources to work in the expression of political opinion on the social media platform Instagram', presented at European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Leiria, Portugal, 03 July 2019

Caple H, 2019, 'How can an analysis of text-image relations on Instagram show us how communities of users are formed?', presented at Approaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices (AMODE), Rome, Italy, 20 June 2019

Caple H, 2019, 'Situating and Visualizing Multimodal Discourse Analysis', presented at New Methods for Multimodal Research, University of Salzburg, Austria, 23 May 2019

Caple H, 2018, 'News values in Australia Day reporting: a social semiotic approach', presented at ASFLA, University of South Australia, 27 September 2018 - 29 September 2018

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2018, 'Introducing a new visualisation tool: Kaleidographic', presented at Digital Humanities Australasia Conference, University of South Australia, 25 September 2018 - 28 September 2018

Anthony L; Caple H; Bednarek M, 2018, 'Visualizing corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis: Principles and limitations', presented at ICAME39, Tampere University, Finland, 30 May 2018 - 03 June 2018

Caple H, 2018, 'Analytical Tools and Methods for Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA)', presented at The Halliday-Hasan International Lectures & the 3rd GDUFS Multiliteracies Forum, Guangdong Foreign Studies University, Guangzhou, China, 23 March 2018 - 26 March 2018

Caple H, 2018, 'Analyzing the multimodal expression of thoughts and feelings in social media posts', presented at The Halliday-Hasan International Lectures & the 3rd GDUFS Multiliteracies Forum, Guangdong Foreign Studies University, Guangzhou, China, 23 March 2018 - 26 March 2018

Caple H, 2017, 'Assessing the multimodal construction of public sentiment on social media', presented at 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand, 06 December 2017 - 09 December 2017

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2017, 'Visualising Multimodal Discourse Analysis using Kaleidographic: A Case Study of Discursive News Values Analysis in Most Shared News', presented at 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand, 06 December 2017 - 09 December 2017

Caple H, 2017, 'Rebirth or resistance? Reimagining Photojournalistic Routines in the Australian news media', presented at JERAA, Newcastle University, NSW, 04 December 2017 - 06 December 2017

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2017, 'A new topology for (multimodal) discourse analysis', presented at ISFC, Wollongong, Australia, 10 July 2017 - 14 July 2017

Caple H, 2017, 'Introducing Kaleidographic: A new visualization tool for multimodal discourse analysis', presented at ISFC, Wollongong, Australia, 10 July 2017 - 14 July 2017

Caple H, 2016, '21st century media literacy: Equity for all semiotic modes?', presented at ASFLA, ACU, North Sydney, 27 September 2016 - 29 September 2016

Caple H, 2015, 'Sports illustrated: The role of photography in sports journalism', presented at ISFC43, Aachen, Germany, 27 July 2015 - 31 July 2015

Caple H, 2014, 'Journalism education and visual storytelling - A new 'golden age' for press photography?', presented at Journalism Education and Research Association Australia, University of Technology Sydney, 25 November 2014 - 27 November 2014

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2014, 'Teaching newsworthiness and news values in the age of the visual', presented at Journalism Education and Research Association Australia, University of Technology Sydney, 25 November 2014 - 27 November 2014

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2014, 'News values - Towards a linguistic framework', presented at Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference, University of New South Wales, 30 September 2014 - 02 October 2014

Caple H, 2013, 'Values in online video news summaries', presented at Values and ideology in TV discourse: A one-day interdisciplinary colloquium on recent research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 22 November 2013 - 22 November 2013

Caple H, 2013, 'Language and image in the news: Online news galleries', presented at 5th International Language in the Media Conference, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, 28 September 2013 - 30 September 2013

Caple H, 2013, 'Promotional Videos: What do they tell us about the value of news?', presented at 5th International Language in the Media Conference, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, 28 September 2013 - 30 September 2013

Caple H, 2013, '‘“Anyone can take a photo, but”: Is there space for the professional photographer in the 21st century newsroom?', presented at Future of Journalism: In an age of digital media and economic uncertainty, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC), Cardiff University, UK, 12 September 2013 - 13 September 2013

Caple H, 2012, 'A discursive approach to news values and its implications for journalism education', presented at 2nd International Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Conference (ALAPP): Integrating Theory and Professional Practice, UTS, Australia, 06 December 2012 - 08 December 2012

Caple H, 2012, 'More than words can say: The contribution of language AND image to news discourse', presented at 2nd International Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Conference (ALAPP): Integrating Theory and Professional Practice, UTS, Australia, 06 December 2012 - 08 December 2012

Caple H; Allen B; Coleman K; Nguyen T, 2012, 'Creativity in practice: Social media in higher education', presented at Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Ascilite 2012, Wellington, New Zealand, 25 November 2012 - 28 November 2012

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2012, 'A discursive approach to news values', presented at 8th Discourse Analysis Symposium: Researching Discourses with an Open Mind, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 16 November 2012 - 16 November 2012

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2012, 'Exploring the Discursive Construal of News Values across Words and Images', presented at ISFC 39, UTS, Australia, 16 July 2012 - 20 July 2012

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