Kate Fitch
@katefitch.bsky.social
academic researching comms, history, gender & social justice
I’m also wearing my @prinquiry.bsky.social editor’s hat - happy to chat about research on critical PR and promotional culture #IAMCR2025
July 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I’m also wearing my @prinquiry.bsky.social editor’s hat - happy to chat about research on critical PR and promotional culture #IAMCR2025
I’m presenting ‘Beauty queens, dancers and maidens: Gender and energy in Australia’, developed with Belinda Smaill, on Thursday afternoon #IAMCR2025
July 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I’m presenting ‘Beauty queens, dancers and maidens: Gender and energy in Australia’, developed with Belinda Smaill, on Thursday afternoon #IAMCR2025
AGL produced some creative TV ads in the late 1970s/early 1980s - a time of energy transition with a global oil crisis & growing awareness of climate change (see this 1983 ad where Sydney is snowbound). Of course, ‘natural gas’ is always framed as the solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=enAO...
Natural Gas (AGL) commercial [1983]
YouTube video by GrubcoTV3
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June 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
AGL produced some creative TV ads in the late 1970s/early 1980s - a time of energy transition with a global oil crisis & growing awareness of climate change (see this 1983 ad where Sydney is snowbound). Of course, ‘natural gas’ is always framed as the solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=enAO...
you can read our research ‘The Living Flame’🔥 [free] on energy promotion & the entanglement of gender, media history & promotional industries in @prinquiry.bsky.social
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The Living Flame: Energy, promotion and ‘natural’ gas in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s - Kate Fitch, Belinda Smaill, 2025
For most of the 20th century, energy transformations were promoted, and legitimated through diverse media and promotion. Much of this ‘energy media’ was generat...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
you can read our research ‘The Living Flame’🔥 [free] on energy promotion & the entanglement of gender, media history & promotional industries in @prinquiry.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Kate Fitch
Phyllis Parkinson helped develop an Australian wine market through media relations & the distribution of wine recipes 🍷 making wine drinking acceptable for Anglo Australians & women (but her contributions are absent from both PR & wine history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wine, women and PR: Phyllis Parkinson and the wine recipe service in Australia, 1952–1979
This paper aims to investigate the Australian Wine Board’s promotion of wine consumption to women in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in order to understand the promotional work conducted by women for wo...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Phyllis Parkinson helped develop an Australian wine market through media relations & the distribution of wine recipes 🍷 making wine drinking acceptable for Anglo Australians & women (but her contributions are absent from both PR & wine history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I planned to cook all the recipes, but devilled jellied tongue in port, stewed kidneys with wine sauce and sherried grapefruit mould or jellied tomato bullion (both made with gelatine) aren’t really my thing (other recipes have better stood the test of time eg pot roasts, wine sauces)
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I planned to cook all the recipes, but devilled jellied tongue in port, stewed kidneys with wine sauce and sherried grapefruit mould or jellied tomato bullion (both made with gelatine) aren’t really my thing (other recipes have better stood the test of time eg pot roasts, wine sauces)
Phyllis Parkinson helped develop an Australian wine market through media relations & the distribution of wine recipes 🍷 making wine drinking acceptable for Anglo Australians & women (but her contributions are absent from both PR & wine history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wine, women and PR: Phyllis Parkinson and the wine recipe service in Australia, 1952–1979
This paper aims to investigate the Australian Wine Board’s promotion of wine consumption to women in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in order to understand the promotional work conducted by women for wo...
www.tandfonline.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Phyllis Parkinson helped develop an Australian wine market through media relations & the distribution of wine recipes 🍷 making wine drinking acceptable for Anglo Australians & women (but her contributions are absent from both PR & wine history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I was visiting Fellow at the very supportive @anuausi.bsky.social in a freezing but beautiful Canberra winter ❄️ and worked in the National Archives and National Library of Australia
April 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I was visiting Fellow at the very supportive @anuausi.bsky.social in a freezing but beautiful Canberra winter ❄️ and worked in the National Archives and National Library of Australia
Reposted by Kate Fitch
new autoethnographic research with reflections on anti-racism and social justice in the PR classroom by Luke Capizzo, @adriwall.bsky.social Nneka Logan & @katieplace.bsky.social 👏 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Accomplices in the public relations classroom: An autoethnography of social-justice and anti-racism-informed teaching - Luke Capizzo, Adrienne Wallace, Nneka Logan, Katie Place, 2025
A holistic approach to anti-racism and social justice in the public relations classroom requires moving beyond mere allyship with underrepresented students and ...
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March 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
new autoethnographic research with reflections on anti-racism and social justice in the PR classroom by Luke Capizzo, @adriwall.bsky.social Nneka Logan & @katieplace.bsky.social 👏 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...