Alana Mann
Professor
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Alana Mann joined the University of Sydney in 2007 after a professional career in the media and non-profit sectors. Her teaching and research focus on how ordinary citizens get voice in policy debates regarding wicked problems such as food security and climate change. Her book Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift was published in 2014.
Research Interest
The communication strategies of grassroots organisations, social movements and international humanitarian NGOs Transnational civil society and advocacy in human rights and food politics Framing processes, issue emergence, discourse analysis and mechanisms of representation Communication structures and processes in globalisation, particularly in relation to concepts of political community and network theory
