Drawing on contemporary transition pedagogy, this paper provides a case study of a suite of transition activities piloted by The Belonging Project in collaboration with a creatively oriented academic program in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Through qualitative research, this case study demonstrates the importance of adopting Kift, Nelson and Clarke's (2010, p. 6) notion of transition "as a process, not an event." This paper argues that a sustained program of low cost transition activities that bridge the formal and informal curriculum fosters an essential "sense of belonging" among first year students. It provides a successful example of an approach that embeds essential social and academic literacies while facilitating positive social, cultural, and academic transitions.

This paper presents some preliminary findings from The Belonging Project-a longitudinal learning and teaching research project seeking to develop and define a new approach to student engagement. In this project, the concept of belonging is used as a tactic to engage both staff and students in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University as part of the project's aim to improve the student experience. This paper maps the way in which we use belonging-defined in relation to the educational experience-as a point of departure to achieve this outcome. Having established our definition of belonging and its purpose in our project, we then discuss some key results of focus groups with students, outlining the way in which students navigate issues of transition, interdisciplinarity, and notions of space and place, in their relationship to university and campus life.

This article presents a case study of editorial content in an ongoing ‘war of words’ between two Australian publications – independent daily email news source Crikey and the Murdoch-owned broadsheet newspaper The Australian – in order to demonstrate one of the struggles over professional status in the changing Australian media environment. This negotiation over professional status exemplifies the way in which rhetorics of professionalism are used to gain authority over the particular jurisdiction of journalism. Considering this example in relation to dominant discussions of journalistic professionalism, this article demonstrates the limitations of the ways in which many of these discussions are framed, and works to place professionalism within a framework that positions journalism as a cultural technology.

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Review of: Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era, Nael Jebril, Stephen Jukes, Sofia Iordanidou and Emmanouil Takas (eds) (2020) Bristol and Chicago, IL: Intellect, 211 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-168-9, h/bk, $ 135.00 ISBN 978-1-78938-170-2, ebk, $ 104.00