Travis Noakes- Doctor of Media Studies
- Adjunct Scholar at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Travis Noakes
- Doctor of Media Studies
- Adjunct Scholar at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Academic Free Speech and Digital Voices (AFSDV) leader at The Noakes Foundation NPC/PBO. Adjunct Scholar at CPUT.
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Introduction
Contributing to closing knowledge gaps regarding; online content creation by students, the risks of digital visibility (eg academic cyberbullying and fake celebrity endorsements), plus the scientific suppression of legitimate dissent by health authorities with conflicted interests. Visit https://twitter.com/travisnoakes and travisnoakes.co.za for updates.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
April 2019 - April 2021
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- In my postdoctoral fellowship, I wrote research publications from my 'Inequality in digital personas' PhD and 'online academic bullying' research project. I co-supervised a postgraduate Masters student and participated in the postgrad Design Activities Research Workgroup giving feedback on Masters and Doctoral candidates work.
June 2017 - November 2017
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- I lectured journalism students to produce infographics poster (FAM2017S). These lessons (https://www.travisnoakes.co.za/2017/11/designing-infographics-on-educational.html) inspired 'Exploring academic argument in information graphics'.
July 2016 - November 2016
Position
- Supervisor
Description
- I supervised end-of-year research projects by mobile media and communication students (FAM5038S).
Education
March 2009 - November 2018
Publications
Publications (13)
The shift of academic discourse to an online space without guardians gives motivated academic cyberbullies an opportunity to harass susceptible recipients. Cyberbullying by higher education employees is a neglected phenomenon; despite the dangers it poses to academic free speech as well as other negative outcomes. In the absence of an adequate defi...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a public research agenda to address infodemics. In these, ‘an overflow of information of varying quality surges across digital and physical environments’. The WHO’s expert panel has raised concerns that this can result in negative health behaviours and erosion of trust in health authorities and pu...
Qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) packages that support live data extraction are a relatively recent innovation. Little has been written concerning the research implications of differences in such QDAS packages’ functionalities, and how such disparities might contribute to contrasting analytical opportunities. Consequently, early-stage rese...
Big Data communication researchers have highlighted the need for qualitative analysis of online science conversations to better understand their meaning. However, a scholarly gap exists in exploring how qualitative methods can be applied to small data regarding micro-bloggers' communications about science articles. While social media attention assi...
This chapter explores the challenges experienced by second-year journalism students in developing academic argument in a data visualisation course. The course focused on representing arguments that drew on aspects of educational inequality in Cape Town. Data is increasingly produced and circulated visually; and the means to generate data visualisat...
Despite the growing importance of digital portfolios for justifying creative work and study opportunities, little is known about arts students’ creative appropriation of online portfolios in secondary school. In particular, there is a research gap concerning the challenges that young black women face when curating portfolios as visual arts students...
In the privileged contexts where digital divides are being bridged, few people actually become online content producers. Rather, such creation remains a niche practice mostly taken up by elités in their communities. Such exclusivity suggests the complex interaction of capitals required for producing online content. These interactions underpin the p...
Digital and electronic learning portfolios (e-portfolios) are playing a growing role in supporting admission to tertiary study and employment by visual creatives. Despite the growing importance of digital portfolios, we know very little about how professionals or students use theirs. This thesis contributes to knowledge by describing how South Afri...
As the boundaries between technology and social media have decreased, the potential for creative production or participatory practices have increased. However, the affordances of online content creation (OCC) are still taken up by a minority of internet users despite the opportunities offered for engagement and creativity. While previous studies ha...
Differences in income and cultural capital create many major barriers for young people entering creative fields. An increasingly important barrier to entry to tertiary studies or employment in fields of art and design is the growing importance of digital self-presentation in online portfolios. This paper explores the way in which both digital self-...
This paper follows two South African Media Studies university students and their activities as producers of online content. It considers the online publication services they chose to express media-related academic and creative interests outside of formal curriculum requirements. Through peer guidance and using online search, both students were able...
