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Associate Professor Tanja Dreher

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
  • 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