Associate Professor Nicholas Carah

Brodmerkel, Sven and Carah, Nicholas (2016). Brand machines, sensory media and calculative culture. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-49656-0

Louw, Eric and Carah, Nicholas (2015). Media and society: production, content and participation. London, United Kingdom: Sage.

Carah, Nicholas (2010). Pop Brands: Branding, popular music and young people. New York, U.S.A.: Peter Lang.

Arden, Holly and Carah, Nicholas (2022). Cloud, breath, bling, exhaust: an introduction. Conflict in my outlook. (pp. 6-13) edited by Anna Briers, Nicholas Carah and Holly Arden. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Perimeter Editions.

Carah, Nicholas and Brodmerkel, Sven (2022). Regulating platforms’ algorithmic brand culture: the instructive case of alcohol marketers on social media. Digital platform regulation global perspectives on internet governance. (pp. 111-130) edited by Terry Flew and Fiona R. Martin. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95220-4_6

Carah, Nicholas (2020). Mobile marketing. The Oxford handbook of mobile communication and society. (pp. 324-338) edited by Rich Ling, Leopoldina Fortunati, Gerard Goggin, Sun Sun Lim and Yuling Li. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190864385.013.22

Carah, Nicholas (2018). Commercial media platforms and the challenges to public expression and scrutiny. Public interest communication: critical debates and global contexts. (pp. 92-110) edited by Jane Johnston and Magda Piecska. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315185521-6

Dobson, Amy Shields, Carah, Nicholas and Robards, Brady (2018). Digital intimate publics and social media: towards theorising public lives on private platforms. Digital intimate publics and social media. (pp. 3-27) edited by Amy Shields Dobson, Brady Robards and Nicholas Carah. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-97607-5_1

Carah, Nicholas (2017). Alcohol corporations and marketing in social media. Youth drinking cultures in a digital world: alcohol, social media and cultures of intoxication. (pp. 115-131) edited by Antonia C. Lyons, Tim McCreanor, Ian Goodwin and Helen Moewaka Barnes. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315660844-8

Cherrier, Helene, Carah, Nicholas and Meurk, Carla (2017). Social media affordances for curbing alcohol consumption: insights from Hello Sunday Morning blog posts. Youth drinking cultures in a digital world: alcohol, social media and cultures of intoxication. (pp. 167-184) edited by Antonia C. Lyons, Tim McCreanor, Ian Goodwin and Helen Moewaka Barnes. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315660844-11

Carah, Nicholas (2016). 'Enjoy responsibly!': young people as brand co-creators. The mediated youth reader. (pp. 153-167) edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1780-0

Carah, Nicholas and Louw, Paul Eric (2015). The apologetic brand: building Australia's brand on a postcolonial apology. Commercial nationalism: selling the nation and nationalizing the sell. (pp. 27-45) edited by Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic. New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan.

Carah, Nicholas (2012). Are you a musician? The rock ideology and the construction of authenticity on Australian idol. Adapting idols: authenticity, identity and performance in a global television format. (pp. 169-180) edited by Koos Zwaan and Joost de Bruin. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315565620-23

Carah, N. (2010). New technologies, the individual and social change. An introduction to communication and social change. (pp. 109-119) edited by Pradip Thomas and Michael Bromley. St. Lucia , Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press.

Lyons, Antonia C., Goodwin, Ian, Carah, Nicholas, Young, Jessica, Moewaka Barnes, Angela and McCreanor, Timothy (2022). Limbic platform capitalism: understanding the contemporary marketing of health-demoting products on social media. Addiction Research and Theory, 31 (3), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2022.2124976

Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma and Hickman, Sarah (2022). Optimizing looking and buying on Instagram: tracing the platformization of advertising and retail on mobile social media. Television and New Media, 24 (4), 152747642211230-396. doi: 10.1177/15274764221123033

Brooks, Ruby, Christidis, Rebecca, Carah, Nicholas, Kelly, Bridget, Martino, Florentine and Backholer, Kathryn (2022). Turning users into ‘unofficial brand ambassadors’: marketing of unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverages on TikTok. BMJ Global Health, 7 (6) e009112, 1-9. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009112

Carah, Nicholas, Angus, Daniel and Burgess, Jean (2022). Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures. Cultural Studies, 37 (1), 1-26. doi: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2042578

O’Regan, Tom and Carah, Nicholas (2021). The promotional culture of social media and search platforms: an original article by Tom O’Regan and a commentary by Nicholas Carah. Media International Australia, 180 (1), 64-82. doi: 10.1177/1329878x211010784

Miller, Peter G., Coomber, Kerri, de Andrade, Dominique, Livingston, Michael, Puljević, Cheneal, Vakidis, Thea, Carah, Nicholas, Taylor, Nicholas, Burn, Michele, Curtis, Ashlee, Chikritzhs, Tanya, Room, Robin, Clough, Alan, Najman, Jake, Scott, Debbie, Mayshak, Richelle and Ferris, Jason (2021). Queensland Alcohol-related violence and Night-time Economy Monitoring (QUANTEM): rationale and overview. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40 (5) dar.13270, 1-5. doi: 10.1111/dar.13270

Miller, Peter G., Coomber, Kerri, de Andrade, Dominique, Livingston, Michael, Puljević, Cheneal, Vakidis, Thea, Carah, Nicholas, Taylor, Nicholas, Burn, Michele, Curtis, Ashlee, Room, Robin, Clough, Alan, Najman, Jake, Scott, Debbie, Mayshak, Richelle and Ferris, Jason (2021). Summarising the impacts of the Queensland Alcohol-related violence and Night-Time Economy (QUANTEM) project. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40 (5) dar.13272, 755-760. doi: 10.1111/dar.13272

Norman, Thomas, Bonela, Abraham Albert, He, Zhen, Angus, Daniel, Carah, Nicholas and Kuntsche, Emmanuel (2021). Connected and consuming: applying a deep learning algorithm to quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated instagram images. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 29 (5), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.1915249

Ferris, Jason, PuljeviĆ, Cheneal, Taylor, Nicholas, De Andrade, Dominique, Carah, Nicholas, Coomber, Kerri, Mayshak, Richelle, Grant, Kristy and Miller, Peter G. (2021). The impact of Queensland's Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence Policy on nightlife and business trade. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40 (5) dar.13271, 1-9. doi: 10.1111/dar.13271

Puljević, Cheneal, Carah, Nicholas, Miller, Peter G., Wood, Barbara, MacFarlane, Callum, Kilpatrick, Emily, Goold, Lachlan, Regan, Scott and Ferris, Jason (2021). The impact of the Queensland Government's Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence Policy on live music performances in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40 (5) dar.13274, 1-8. doi: 10.1111/dar.13274

Martino, Florentine, Brooks, Ruby, Browne, Jennifer, Carah, Nicholas, Zorbas, Christina, Corben, Kirstan, Saleeba, Emma, Martin, Jane, Peeters, Anna and Backholer, Kathryn (2021). The Nature and Extent of Online Marketing by Big Food and Big Alcohol During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: Content Analysis Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 7 (3) e25202, 1-16. doi: 10.2196/25202

Carah, Nicholas and Brodmerkel, Sven (2021). Alcohol marketing in the era of digital media platforms. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 82 (1), 18-27. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2021.82.18

Carah, Nicholas, Regan, Scott, Goold, Lachlan, Rangiah, Lillian, Miller, Peter and Ferris, Jason (2021). Original live music venues in hyper-commercialised nightlife precincts: exploring how venue owners and managers navigate cultural, commercial and regulatory forces. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27 (5), 621-635. doi: 10.1080/10286632.2020.1830979

Hawker, Kiah and Carah, Nicholas (2020). Snapchat’s augmented reality brand culture: sponsored filters and lenses as digital piecework. Continuum, 35 (1), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827370

Carah, Nicholas (2020). What do participants on digital media platforms produce? Tracking the development of Hello Sunday Morning from a blog, to a social network, to a self-tracking app. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23 (4), 136787791989996-530. doi: 10.1177/1367877919899963

Carah, Nicholas and Brodmerkel, Sven (2020). Critical perspectives on brand culture in the era of participatory and algorithmic media. Sociology Compass, 14 (2) e12752, e12752. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12752

Carah, Nicholas and Angus, Daniel (2018). Algorithmic brand culture: participatory labour, machine learning and branding on social media. Media, Culture & Society, 40 (2), 178-194. doi: 10.1177/0163443718754648

Miller, Peter, Ferris, Jason, Coomber, Kerri, Zahnow, Renee, Carah, Nicholas, Jiang, Heng, Kypri, Kypros, Chikritzhs, Tanya, Clough, Alan, Livingston, Michael, de Andrade, Dominique, Room, Robin, Callinan, Sarah, Curtis, Ashlee, Mayshak, Richelle, Droste, Nicolas, Lloyd, Belinda, Matthews, Sharon, Taylor, Nicholas, Crane, Meredythe, Thorn, Michael and Najman, Jake (2017). Queensland Alcohol-related violence and Night Time Economy Monitoring project (QUANTEM): a study protocol. BMC Public Health, 17 (789) 789, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4811-9

Carah, Nicholas, Meurk, Carla, Males, Matthew and Brown, Jennifer (2017). Emerging social media ‘platform’ approaches to alcohol marketing: a comparative analysis of the activity of the top 20 Australian alcohol brands on Facebook (2012-2014). Critical Public Health, 28 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2017.1282154

Carah, Nicholas and Meurk, Carla (2016). We need a media platform perspective on alcohol marketing: a reply to Lobstein et al.. Addiction, 112 (2), 370-370. doi: 10.1111/add.13599

Carah, Nicholas and Dobson, Amy (2016). Algorithmic hotness: young women’s “promotion” and “reconnaissance” work via social media body images. Social Media and Society, 2 (4), 1-10. doi: 10.1177/2056305116672885

Carah, Nicholas (2016). Book review: "Landscape and branding: the promotion and production of place", by Nicole Porter. Consumption, Markets & Culture, 21 (3), 290-293. doi: 10.1080/10253866.2016.1225328

Carah, Nicholas and Shaul, Michelle (2016). Brands and Instagram: Point, tap, swipe, glance. Mobile Media and Communication, 4 (1), 69-84. doi: 10.1177/2050157915598180

Carah, Nicholas (2015). Algorithmic brands: a decade of brand experiments with mobile and social media. New Media and Society, 19 (3), 1-17. doi: 10.1177/1461444815605463

Carah, Nicholas, Meurk, Carla and Angus, Daniel (2015). Online self-expression and experimentation as ‘reflectivism’: using text analytics to examine the participatory forum Hello Sunday Morning. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 21 (2), 1-17. doi: 10.1177/1363459315596799

Meurk, Carla, Whiteford, Harvey, Head, Brian, Hall, Wayne and Carah, Nicholas (2015). Media and evidence-informed policy development: the case of mental health in Australia. Contemporary Social Science, 10 (2), 160-170. doi: 10.1080/21582041.2015.1053970

Carah, Nicholas, Carla Meurk and Hall, Wayne Denis (2015). Profiling Hello Sunday Morning: who are the participants?. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26 (2), 214-216. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.07.019

Carah, Nicholas, Brodmerkel, Sven and Hernandez, Lorena (2014). Brands and sociality: alcohol branding, drinking culture and Facebook. Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 20 (3), 259-275. doi: 10.1177/1354856514531531

Carah, Nicholas (2014). Curators of databases: circulating images, managing attention and making value on social media. Media International Australia, 150 (150), 137-142. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1415000125

Carah, Nicholas (2014). Watching nightlife: affective labor, social media and surveillance. Television and New Media, 15 (3), 250-265. doi: 10.1177/1527476413498121

Carah, Nicholas (2014). Brand value: how affective labour helps create brands. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 17 (3-4), 346-366. doi: 10.1080/10253866.2013.847435

Brodmerkel, Sven and Carah, Nicholas (2013). Alcohol brands on Facebook: the challenges of regulating brands on social media. Journal of Public Affairs, 13 (3), 272-281. doi: 10.1002/pa.1466

Carah, Nicholas and Shaul, Michelle (2013). Leveraging social media. Prevention Research, 1-25.

Carah, Nicholas and Brodmerkel, Sven (2012). The Gruen Transfer: the paradoxical ritual of advertisers exposing advertising. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 3 (3), 345-360. doi: 10.1386/iscc.3.3.345_1

Carah, Nicholas and Louw, Eric (2012). Inundated by the audience: Journalism, audience participation and the 2011 Brisbane flood. Media International Australia, 144 (144), 137-145. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1214400118

Nicholas Carah, Brodmerkel, Sven and Knaggs, Angie (2012). Gruen Nation: Dissecting the show, not the business. Communication, Politics and Culture, 45 (1), 60-77.

Carah, Nicholas and van Horen, Andrew (2011). DrinkWise, enjoy responsibly: News frames, branding and alcohol. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 141 (141), 5-16. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1114100103

Carah, Nicholas (2011). Breaking into The Bubble: Brand-building labour and 'getting in' to the culture industry. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 25 (3), 427-438. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2011.565869

Puljević, Cheneal, Carah, Nicholas, Miller, Peter, Wood, Barbara, Goold, Lachlan, Regan, Scott and Ferris, Jason (2019). The impact of the Queensland Government’s Alcohol-Fuelled Violence Policy on live music performances in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia. 45th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3-7 June 2019.

Goold, Lachlan, Carah, Nicholas, Regan, Scott, Ferris, Jason, Puljevic, Cheneal and Miller, Peter (2019). Queensland alcohol-related violence legislation and its effect on original live music venues in Fortitude Valley. Sydney Institute of Music and Sound Research, Sydney, NSW Australia, 3 July 2019.

Mayshak, Richelle, Curtis, Ashlee, Taylor, Nicholas and Carah, Nicholas (2017). NOVEL METHODS TO INFORM POLICY EVALUATIONS IN NIGHT TIME ENTERTAINMENT PRECINCTS. HOBOKEN: WILEY.

Ferris, Jason, Zahnow, Renee, Miller, Peter G., Coomber, Kerri, Carah, Nicholas, Goold, Lachlan and Regan, Scotty (2017). Queensland Government's tackling alcohol-fuelled violence policy: A graphical display of administrative data. APSAD 2017 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 12–15 November 2017. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley.

Stephens, Ray, Barratt, Monica J., Carah, Nicholas and Aiken, Paul (2013). Advocacy, Research, Treatment: the Art of Harnessing Web-Based Approaches to Improve Aod Policy and Practice. The Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 24 -27 November 2013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077

Nicholas Carah (2009). Enjoying Virgin's V festival. ANZCA 2009, QUT, Brisbane, 8-10 July 2009. Brisbane, Australia: QUT.

Carah, Nicholas (2008). Fake or Real!!?? Have your say!!!: Negotiating authenticity on Australian Idol. Power and Place: Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, Wellington NZ, 9-11 July 2008. Wellington ,NZ: Massey University.

Carah, N. (2007). Are you all coked out? Global corporations, music culture and young Australians. ICA2007: Creating Communication: Content, Control & Critique, San Francisco, USA, 24-28 May 2007. Online, www.icahdq.org: International Communications Association.

Arnold, N. and Carah, N. C. (2004). Globalizing cultures challenge: The ethics, strategy and outcomes of research processes defining IPR. Intellectual property rights, communication and the public domain in Asia-Pacific Region, UQ, Brisbane, 14th - 17th December, 2004. The University of Queensland, Brisbane: WACC, School of Journalism and Communication.

Carah, N. C. (2004). Youth rights to re-pirating originality. Intellectual Property Rights, Communication, and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region, UQ, Brisbane, 14th - 17th December, 2004. The University of Queensland, Brisbane: WACC, School of Journalism and Communication.

Brown, Maria-Gemma, Hickman, Sarah and Carah, Nicholas (2022). Timeline of the development of Instagram's promotional culture and advertising model (2010-2020). The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/7c94074

Nicholas Carah (2008). Empowerment within the brandscapes of popular music culture. PhD Thesis, School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland.

Hayden, Lauren, Brownbill, Aimee, Angus, Daniel, Carah, Nicholas, Tan, Xue Ying, Hawker, Kiah, Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2023). Alcohol advertising on social media platforms – A 1-year snapshot. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.

Brady Robards, Nicholas Carah, Lillian Rangiah, Steven Roberts, Chiara De Lazzari, Maria-Gemma Brown, Karla Elliott, Claire Tanner, Michael Savic and Amy Dobson (2023). The Social Media & Unhealthy Marketing Project: Final Report. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Monash University, The University of Queensland & Vichealth.

Hawker, Kiah, Carah, Nicholas, Angus, Daniel, Brownbill, Aimee, Tan, Xue Ying (Jane), Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2022). Advertisements on digital platforms: how transparent and observable are they?. Canberra, ACT, United States: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.

Carah, Nicholas, Brodmerkel, Sven and Shaul, Michelle (2015). Breaching the code: Alcohol, Facebook and self-regulation.

Carah, Nicholas (2014). Like, comment, share: alcohol brand activity on Facebook. Deakin, ACT, Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education.

Hamley, Ben and Carah, Nicholas (2012). One Sunday at a time: Evaluating Hello Sunday Morning. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE).

Greste, Peter, Cronin, Danielle, Carah, Nicholas, Kelly, Sarah and Jedlickova, Barbora (2021, 02 26). Facebook power move: What did a news ban achieve and what will a new bargaining code mean for Australia's media landscape? Contact magazine

Carah, Nicholas, Ferris, Jason, Goold, Lachlan and Regan, Scott (2019, 08 15). Tighter alcohol licensing hasn’t killed live music, but it’s harder for emerging artists The Conversation

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