Associate Professor Tanja Dreher

Scientia Fellow (Level D)

BA (Sydney), Advanced Diploma of Applied Aboriginal Studies (Tranby), MA Journalism (UTS), PhD (University of Western Sydney)

Arts, Design & Architecture

School of the Arts and Media

Phone

+61 2 9385 6405

E-mail

t.dreher@unsw.edu.au

Location

Room 231S, Level 2 Robert Webster

Publications
Media

Books | 2012

Dreher T; Mowbray J, 2012, The Power of One on One: Human Libraries and the challenges of antiracism work, University of Technology ePress, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/978-1-8636542-6-5

Books | 2006

Dreher T, 2006, Whose Responsibility? Community Anti-Racism Strategies after September 11, University of Technology ePress, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/978-1-86365-421-0
Book Chapters | 2019

Dreher T; De Souza P, 2019, 'Beyond marginalised voices: Listening as participation in Multicultural media', in Thomas T; Kruse M; Stehling M (ed.), Media Participation in Post-Migrant Societies, Rowman & Littlefield International, London; New York, pp. 165 - 180

Book Chapters | 2018

Dreher T; De Souza P, 2018, 'Locating Listening', in Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 21 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2

Book Chapters | 2018

Dreher T; Mondal AA, 2018, 'From Voice to Response: Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference', in Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2_1

Book Chapters | 2018

Dreher T; de Souza P, 2018, 'Locating Listening', in Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference, Springer Nature, pp. 21 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2_2

Book Chapters | 2018

Dreher T, 2018, 'From Voice to Response: Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference', in Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2

Book Chapters | 2018

Dreher T, 2018, 'Media, belonging and being heard: Community media and the politics of listening', in Nolan D; Marjoribanks T (ed.), Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging, Anthem Press, London; New York, pp. 37 - 60

Book Chapters | 2018

McCallum K; Waller L; Dreher T, 2018, 'Beyond deficit discourse: reframing debate in Indigenous Education', in Schapals AK; Bruns A; McNair B (ed.), Digitizing Democacy, Routledge, London, pp. 147 - 162, https://www.routledge.com/Digitizing-Democracy/Schapals-Bruns-McNair/p/book/9781138483446

Book Chapters | 2017

Dreher T; Waller L; McCallum K, 2017, 'Disruption or transformation? Australian policymaking in the face of Indigenous contestation', in Peeren E; Celikates R; de Kloet J; Poell T (ed.), Global Cultures of Contestation: Mobility, Sustainability, Aesthetics & Connectivity, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, pp. 215 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63982-6_11

Book Chapters | 2017

Dreher T, 2017, 'Listening: a normative approach to transform media and democracy', in Wasserman H; Garman A (ed.), Media and Citizenship in South Africa: Between Marginalization and Participation, HSRC Press, Cape Town, pp. 16 - 33

Book Chapters | 2014

Dreher T, 2014, '"White Bread" Media', in Cunningham S; Turnbull S (ed.), The Media and Communications in Australia Fourth Edition, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 297 - 301

Book Chapters | 2013

Voyer M; Dreher T; Gladstone W; Goodhall H, 2013, 'Dodgy Science or Global Necessity? Local Media Reporting of Marine Parks', in Lester L; Hutchins B (ed.), Environmental Conflict and the Media, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 153 - 168, https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/29834?format=EPDF

Book Chapters | 2010

Dreher T, 2010, 'Community Media Intervention', in Ewart J; Rane H (ed.), Islam and the Australian News Media, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 185 - 205, https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=E16C4DAD-4CF2-43EB-BC90-1FC8FCDD2580

Book Chapters | 2010

Dreher T, 2010, 'Cultural Diversity and the Media', in Cunningham S; Turner G (ed.), The Media & Communications in Australia Third Edition, edn. 5, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, pp. 273 - 284

Book Chapters | 2010

Dreher T, 2010, 'Media interventions in racialized communities', in Understanding Community Media, pp. 143 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452275017.n13

Book Chapters | 2009

Dreher T; Chalmers S, 2009, 'Safeguarding Masculinity, Protecting Our Borders: The Banality of Sexual Violence in the Public Sphere in Australia', in Dreher T; Ho C (ed.), Beyond the Hijab Debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 134 - 148

Book Chapters | 2009

Dreher T; Ho C, 2009, 'Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race, and Religion', in Dreher T; Ho C (ed.), Beyond the Hijab Debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 1 - 17

Book Chapters | 2009

Dreher T, 2009, 'Media interventions in racialised communities', in Howley K (ed.), Understanding Community Media, SAGE, Thousand Oaks, pp. 143 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452275017

Book Chapters | 2007

Dreher T, 2007, 'Contesting Cabramatta: moral panic and media interventions in "Australia's Heroin Capital"', in Poynting S; Morgan G (ed.), Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Publishing, Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 111 - 123

Book Chapters | 2007

Dreher T, 2007, 'News Media Responsibilities in Reporting Terrorism', in Lynch A; Williams G; MacDonald E (ed.), Law and Liberty in the War on Terror, Federation Press, Annandale, N.S.W., pp. 211 - 219

Book Chapters | 2000

Dreher T, 2000, 'Cabramatta news talk: Audiences, identity and symbolic power', in Poynting S; Collins J (ed.), The Other Sydney: Communities, Identities and Inequalities in Western Sydney, Common Ground, Melbourne, pp. 106 - 122
Edited Books | 2018

Dreher T; Mondal A, (ed.), 2018, Paying Attention: Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference, Palgrave Macmillan, New York

Edited Books | 2009

Dreher T; Ho C, (ed.), 2009, Beyond the Hijab Debates: New conversations on gender, race and religion, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
Journal articles | 2025

Skogerbø E; McCallum K; Dreher T, 2025, 'Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions', Media, Culture and Society, 47, pp. 96 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01634437241276125

Journal articles | 2024

McCallum K; Dreher T; Deas M; de Souza P; Joseph S; Skogerbø E, 2024, 'Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children', Media International Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241267722

Journal articles | 2024

de Souza P; Dreher T, 2024, 'Resistance, reclamation and repair: the Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage', Feminist Media Studies, 24, pp. 783 - 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2226838

Journal articles | 2023

James A; Hynes D; Whelan A; Dreher T; Humphry J, 2023, 'From access and transparency to refusal: Three responses to algorithmic governance', Internet Policy Review, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.14763/2023.2.1691

Journal articles | 2022

Dreher T; Waller L, 2022, 'Enduring silence: racialized news values, white supremacy and a national apology for child sexual abuse', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45, pp. 1671 - 1692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1971732

Journal articles | 2021

Forde S; Dreher T; Maeseele P, 2021, 'Introduction: JOACM Special Issue ‘Community and Activist Media: Resistance and Resurgence’', Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 6, pp. 3 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00090_2

Journal articles | 2021

de Souza P; Dreher T, 2021, 'Dwelling in Discomfort: On the conditions of listening in settler colonial Australia', Borderlands Journal, 20, pp. 30 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2021-012

Journal articles | 2020

Dreher T, 2020, 'Racism and media: a response from Australia during the global pandemic', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43, pp. 2363 - 2371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1784452

Journal articles | 2020

Rogers D; Herbert M; Whitzman C; McCann E; Maginn PJ; Watts B; Alam A; Pill M; Keil R; Dreher T; Novacevski M; Byrne J; Osborne N; Büdenbender M; Alizadeh T; Murray K; Dombroski K; Prasad D; Connolly C; Kass A; Dale E; Murray C; Caldis S, 2020, 'The City Under COVID-19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111, pp. 434 - 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12426

Journal articles | 2020

Waller L; Dreher T; Hess K; McCallum K; Skogerbø E, 2020, 'Media Hierarchies of Attention: News Values and Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse', Journalism Studies, 21, pp. 180 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2019.1633244

Journal articles | 2018

Carlson B; Dreher T, 2018, 'Introduction: Indigenous innovation in social media', Media International Australia, 169, pp. 16 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X18803798

Journal articles | 2018

Dreher T; Griffiths M, 2018, 'Shifting the terms of debate: speaking, writing and listening beyond free speech debates', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 32, pp. 393 - 399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2018.1488528

Journal articles | 2017

Dreher T, 2017, 'Social/Participation/Listening: keywords for the social impact of community media', Communication Research and Practice, 3, pp. 14 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1273737

Journal articles | 2017

Dreher T, 2017, 'The ‘uncanny doubles’ of queer politics: Sexual citizenship in the era of same-sex marriage victories', Sexualities, 20, pp. 176 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716645788

Journal articles | 2016

Dreher T; McCallum K; Waller L, 2016, 'Indigenous voices and mediatized policy-making in the digital age', Information Communication and Society, 19, pp. 23 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1093534

Journal articles | 2016

Dreher T, 2016, 'Pinkwashing the Past: Gay Rights, Military History and the Sidelining of Protest in Australia', Oñati Socio-legal Series [online], 6, pp. 116 - 136, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2724515

Journal articles | 2016

McCallum K; Waller L; Dreher T, 2016, 'Mediatization, marginalization and disruption in Australian Indigenous affairs', Media and Communication, 4, pp. 30 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i4.695

Journal articles | 2015

Dreher T; Voyer M, 2015, 'Climate refugees or migrants? Contesting media frames on climate justice in the pacific', Environmental Communication, 9, pp. 58 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2014.932818

Journal articles | 2015

Waller L; Dreher T; McCallum K, 2015, 'The listening key: Unlocking the democratic potential of indigenous participatory media', Media International Australia, pp. 57 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515400109

Journal articles | 2014

Dreher T; Voyer M, 2014, 'Climate Change Refugees or Migrants? Shifting news frames on climate change impacts in the Pacific', Environmental Communication, 9, pp. 58 - 76

Journal articles | 2013

Flood M; Dreher T; Martin B, 2013, 'Combining Academia and Activism: Common Obstacles and Useful Tools', Australian Universities Review, 55, pp. 17 - 26, https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103832/1/__qut.edu.au_Documents_StaffHome_staffgroupB%24_bozzetto_Documents_2017001041.pdf

Journal articles | 2013

Flood M; Martin B; Dreher T, 2013, 'Combining academia and activism Common obstacles and useful tools', AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES REVIEW, 55, pp. 16 - 25

Journal articles | 2013

Voyer M; Dreher T; Gladstone W; Goodall H, 2013, 'Who cares wins: The role of local news and news sources in influencing community responses to marine protected areas', Ocean and Coastal Management, 85, pp. 29 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.09.002

Journal articles | 2012

Dreher T, 2012, 'A partial promise of voice: Digital storytelling and the limits of listening', Media International Australia, pp. 157 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214200117

Journal articles | 2010

Dreher T, 2010, 'Speaking up or being heard? Community media interventions and the politics of listening', Media, Culture and Society, 32, pp. 85 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443709350099

Journal articles | 2009

Bloch B; Dreher T, 2009, 'Resentment and reluctance: Working with everyday diversity and everyday racism in Southern Sydney', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 30, pp. 193 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256860902766982

Journal articles | 2009

Dreher T, 2009, 'Eavesdropping with permission: the politics of listening for safer speaking spaces', Borderlands e-Journal : New Spaces in the Humanities, 8, pp. 1 - 21, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol8no1_2009/dreher_eavesdropping.htm

Journal articles | 2009

Dreher T, 2009, 'Listening across difference: Media and multiculturalism beyond the politics of voice', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 23, pp. 445 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304310903015712

Journal articles | 2009

Ho C; Dreher T, 2009, 'Not Another Hijab Row: New Conversations on Gender, Race, Religion and the Making of Communities', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11, pp. 114 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616740802567881

Journal articles | 2009

Lee-Shoy T; Dreher T, 2009, 'Creating listening spaces for intergenerational communication - Tiffany Lee-Shoy in conversation with Tanja Dreher', Continuum, 23, pp. 573 - 577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304310903078694

Journal articles | 2009

O'Donnell P; Lloyd J; Dreher T, 2009, 'Listening, pathbuilding and continuations: A research agenda for the analysis of listening', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 23, pp. 423 - 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304310903056252

Journal articles | 2008

Dreher T, 2008, 'People Like Us: How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 32, pp. 409 - 410

Journal articles | 2007

Couldry N; Dreher T, 2007, 'Globalization and the public sphere: exploring the space of community media in Sydney', Global Media and Communication, 3, pp. 79 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766507074360

Journal articles | 2007

Dreher T; Ho C, 2007, ''Not Another Hijab Row': New conversations on gender, race, religion and the making of communities', Transforming Cultures eJournal, 2, pp. i - xiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/tfc.v2i1.614

Journal articles | 2006

Dreher T; Simmons F, 2006, 'Australian Muslim Women's Media Interventions', FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES, 6, pp. 117 - 120

Journal articles | 2006

Dreher T; Simmons F, 2006, 'Australian Muslim Women’s Media Interventions', Feminist Media Studies, 6, pp. 117 - 120

Journal articles | 2006

Dreher T, 2006, '"What is the solution?” Moving cultural diversity to the centre of journalism debates', Australian Studies in Journalism, pp. 205 - 211

Journal articles | 2006

Dreher T, 2006, 'From Cobra Grubs to Dragons: cultural tourism and the politics of representation in multicultural Sydney', Cultural Studies Review, 12, pp. 91 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v12i2.2338

Journal articles | 2006

Dreher T, 2006, 'from cobra grubs to dragons Negotiating the Politics of Representation in Cultural Research', CULTURAL STUDIES REVIEW, 12, pp. 90 - 106

Journal articles | 2003

Dreher T, 2003, 'Speaking up and talking back: News media interventions in Sydney’s 'othered' communities', Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources, pp. 121 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0310900112

Journal articles | 2002

Dreher T, 2002, 'Intersections. A transdisciplinary approach to media, identity, and place', Australian Journal of Communication, 29, pp. 67 - 80, https://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200208347;res=IELAPA

Journal articles | 2002

O'Donnell P; Dreher T, 2002, 'Teaching Students to Challenge the War-as-Justice Rhetoric', Feminist Media Studies, 2, pp. 147 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/146807702753745455

Journal articles | 2000

Dreher T, 2000, 'Home invasion: television, identity and belonging in Sydney’s western suburbs', Media International Australia, 94, pp. 131 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0009400113

Journal articles | 2000

Dreher T, 2000, 'Review: Mapping Media Power', Communal/Plural, 8, pp. 257 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/132078700426433
Conference Papers | 2017

Dreher T; Thill C, 2017, 'Listening with Disability for Media Justice', in Martin F (ed.), Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2017 - Communication Worlds: Access, Voice, Diversity, Engagement, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), University of Sydney, presented at ANZCA, University of Sydney, 04 July 2017 - 07 July 2017, http://www.anzca.net/conferences/past-conferences/2017-conf/anzca17-thill-dreher/file.html

Other | 2015

Dreher T; Lloyd J, 2015, Speaking up or being heard? Marginalised voices and policy development in the digital age,

Other | 2012

Dreher T; Mowbray J, 2012, The power of one on one: Living Libraries and the challenges of antiracism work, University of Technology Sydney ePress, Sydney,

Other | 2009

Dreher T; Osuri G; Laforteza E, 2009, "Acting sovereign” in the face of gendered protectionism’, Anthony Burke University of Adelaide (Australia),

Other | 2009

Dreher T; Lloyd J; O'Donnell P (eds.), 2009, Listening: a new way of engaging media and culture, Taylor & Francis (Routledge),

Other | 2009

Dreher T; Osuri G; Larofteza E (eds.), 2009, Acting Sovereign: Interventions in a politics of Gendered Protectionism,

Conference Papers | 2008

Dreher T, 2008, 'Media, multiculturalism and the politics of listening', in Media, multiculturalism and the politics of listening, ANZCA, Wellington, presented at ANZCA, Wellington, 09 July 2008 - 11 July 2008

Reports | 2007

Dreher T; Bloch B, 2007, ’Thinking Outside the Square: Capacity Building for Community Conflict Resolution in Rockdale, UTS Shopfront, Rockdale City Council

Other | 2006

Dreher T, 2006, "Targeted" Experiences of Racism in NSW After September 11, 2001, University of Technology ePress, Sydney, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/978-1-86365-420-3

Other | 2006

Dreher T, 2006, Whose Responsibility? Community antiracism strategies in NSW after September 11, 2001, University of Technology Sydney ePress, Sydney,

Reports | 2005

Dreher T; Collins J, 2005, Building Bridges: community relations in NSW after September 11, 2001, UTS Shopfront, Sydney

Conference Papers | 2001

Dreher T, 2001, 'Intersections: a transdisciplinary approach to media, identity and place', in Intersections: a transdisciplinary approach to media, identity and place, ANZCA, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, pp. 82 - 92, presented at ANZCA, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, 01 July 2001 - 03 July 2001

Media | 2001

Castillo A; Dreher T, 2001, Tune into Fairfield City: A Multicultural Driving Tour, Migration Heritage Centre NSW, , http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/publications/tune-into-fairfield-city-a-multicultural-driving-tour/index.html

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