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No longer tuned in to master's voice Online digital environments are inviting all of us to participate actively in our own learning write ERICA MCWILLIAM and NORMAN JACKSON. |
Where the future meets the past YouTube's significance is partly to do with its pre-history, write HENRY JENKINS and JOHN HARTLEY |
The ghost of Arthur Rylah The old battles against ignorance and prejudice were not permanently won, argues GEOFFREY BARKER |
Budget 2008: what it means for broadcasting MARGARET SIMONS detects some good news for community radio, but not a great deal else |
What the internet means for the way journalists write The internet is creating a more dynamic and interactive understanding of what disinterested reporting can mean, writes MARGARET SIMONS |
Winner creates all? Almost all creative ventures fail, but the successes can be spectacular, write PAUL ORMEROD and STUART CUNNINGHAM |
Catching up The internet looks like becoming a single social networking platform, writes MARGARET SIMONS |
The 'next' museum wave: is social media here to stay? Collections, audiences, distribution and access will continue to be the central concerns, writes ANGELINA RUSSO |
Has radio blown the future? Digital radio's delayed introduction could mean the future has been created by other audio media, writes JOCK GIVEN |
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Higher education
No longer tuned in to master's voice
Online digital environments are inviting all of us to participate actively in our own learning write ERICA MCWILLIAM and NORMAN JACKSON.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Where the future meets the past
YouTube's significance is partly to do with its pre-history, write HENRY JENKINS and JOHN HARTLEY
CENSORSHIP
The ghost of Arthur Rylah
The old battles against ignorance and prejudice were not permanently won, argues GEOFFREY BARKER
BROADCASTING
Budget 2008: what it means for broadcasting
MARGARET SIMONS detects some good news for community radio, but not a great deal else
THE MEDIA
What the internet means for the way journalists write
The internet is creating a more dynamic and interactive understanding of what disinterested reporting can mean, writes MARGARET SIMONS
INNOVATION
Winner creates all?
Almost all creative ventures fail, but the successes can be spectacular, write PAUL ORMEROD and STUART CUNNINGHAM
WEB 2.0
Catching up
The internet looks like becoming a single social networking platform, writes MARGARET SIMONS
WEB 2.0
The 'next' museum wave: is social media here to stay?
Collections, audiences, distribution and access will continue to be the central concerns, writes ANGELINA RUSSO
BROADCASTING
Has radio blown the future?
Digital radio's delayed introduction could mean the future has been created by other audio media, writes JOCK GIVEN
JOURNALISM
The limitations of the crowd
MARGARET SIMONS looks at the results of an experiment in online reporting launched by Jay Rosen (above)
INNOVATION REVIEW
Mining the creative thread
The new government has a chance to prove itself a supporter of innovation in Australian industry, writes SIMON MARGINSON
THE MEDIA
The 16-year-old's challenge to journalists
A party in Narre Warren has exposed the limitations of an industry that plays only to mass audiences, writes MARGARET SIMONS
PRINT
Hamlet’s blackberry revisited
New research provides some support for William Powers's analysis of the future of print media, writes PETER BROWNE
INTERNET
How NetAlert accentuated the negative
Research obtained under freedom of information laws raises questions about the accuracy of the Howard government’s pre-election advertising campaign on internet safety, writes PETER MARES
BROADCASTING
The impact of the intervention on NT Indigenous radio
The new chair of the Australian Indigenous Communications Association, Jim Remedio, warns that the NT intervention is undermining Indigenous broadcasting, writes ELLIE RENNIE
JOURNALISM
What's worth reading?
The first Australian social news site might help us decide, writes MARGARET SIMONS
CREATIVITY
Everyone's business
Creativity is no longer on the margins, writes ERICA McWILLIAM
THE ARTS
Taking a stab
ELLIE RENNIE reviews Marcus Westbury's ABC TV series, Not Quite Art
THE MEDIA
Public interest or self interest?
When it comes to the free expression, the media can be both problem and solution, writes MARGARET SIMONS
BROADCASTING
Top of the class
Mike Rennie's experience shows how far Indigenous community radio training can take you, writes ELLIE RENNIE
BLOGGERS
The limits of the mainstream
The Jack Marx affair is a reminder that there will be a big difference between blogs found in the wild and those captured by the mainstream, writes MARGARET SIMONS
BLOGGERS
Rupert was right to worry
Murdoch's Australian broadsheet is still struggling to understand the blogosphere, writes MARGARET SIMONS
LOCAL MEDIA
A game almost anyone can play
The big media companies face competition in their attempts to go local, reports MARGARET SIMONS
TV
Towards the big turn-off
Events are overtaking digital television, writes MARGARET SIMONS
SPECTRUM
Creating a commons on the airwaves
The Open Spectrum movement sees a future in which the community can directly access the airwaves, writes ELLIE RENNIE, and Dewayne Hendricks is showing how it can be done
MEDIA
Labor policy: the missing elements
Labor hasn't released its policies on key media matters, writes MARGARET SIMONS, so we're left hoping Graeme Samuel holds his nerve
INNOVATION
Gold medal for innovation?
In an Ideas Olympics, what would the humanities, arts and social science, and the industries they feed, have to contribute, asks STUART CUNNINGHAM
INNOVATION
Digital literacy in a knowledge economy
In a knowledge society, what’s needed is an open innovation network, argues JOHN HARTLEY
BROADBAND
Australia is way out of the loop
We can learn from Europe's broadband success stories, writes TREVOR BARR
MEDIA POLICY
Pre-election jitters in Canberra
Is the Howard government having second thoughts, asks MARGARET SIMONS
INNOVATION
Pooh to copyright wrongs
Intellectual property monopolies are stifling creativity, writes JOHN QUIGGIN
JOURNALISM
Will Margo be back?
MARGARET SIMONS looks forward to the return of one of Australia's most exasperating and courageous journalists
BLOGS
Only the beginning
Despite the predictions, blogging is here to stay, argues MARGARET SIMONS
RESEARCH
Collaborating across the sectors
Isolating researchers in disciplinary silos discourages innovative research, writes Stuart Cunningham.
DIGITAL TV
Still switched off?
Senator Coonan's new plan isn't all bad, writes MARGARET SIMONS
MEDIA OWNERSHIP
Time to smoke out media Santas
The ACCC must take a tough line on recent moves by Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes, write ALLAN FELS and FRED BRENCHLEY
THE ABC
Signs of life in the town square
Is Mark Scott on the right track, asks MARGARET SIMONS
MEDIA
The game is on as media bosses circle
The big look like getting bigger, writes JOCK GIVEN
MARKETING
Pay attention: there’s a cost
Keeping an audience interested is a valuable skill, writes JOHN QUIGGIN
INDIGENOUS TV
Indigenous TV: Let's spell it out once and for all
The government is giving with one hand and taking with the other, writes ELLIE RENNIE
Photo: Rachel Stubbs, director of Going to the Finke Desert Race
POLICY
What on earth is datacasting?
The Productivity Commission is right, says MARGARET SIMONS. Datacasting is no more than a "a regulatory artifice"
BROADCASTING
Stop tiptoeing around TV's future
The introduction of free-to-air digital TV has been an utter failure, writes JOCK GIVEN
INNOVATION
Australia’s innovation system out of kilter
Too many of Australia's policy settings overlook the potential of the humanities, arts and social sciences to contribute to the national economy and well-being writes STUART CUNNINGHAM.
MEDIA LAWS
Should we rely on the regulators?
The government is likely to introduce its media reform legislation into parliament this week, but what's not in the Bills might be as important as what is, writes JOCK GIVEN
MEDIA
Credibility for sale
The distinction between news and entertainment doesn't bother advertisers, writes MARGARET SIMONS
INNOVATION
What is the creative economy?
Creative impulses are the economy’s driving force, writes STUART CUNNINGHAM
JOURNALISM
Should we shoot the messenger?
Media professionals are their own worst enemies, argues ALLAN FELS
FREE SPEECH
Not as free as we like to think
The status quo in Australia is shifting, writes GEORGE WILLIAMS
INTERNET
The new media diversity battlefront
All online activity must be treated equally, argues MARGARET SIMONS
COMMUNITY TV
Broadcasting through difficult times
The obstacles facing Bushvision suggest that the federal government doesn’t understand community television, writes ELLIE RENNIE
THE ABC
Boomerangs
Senator Coonan and the government are deaf to informed debate, argues SYLVIA LAWSON
MEDIA POLICY
Will viewers like the digital challenge?
More diversity is needed to encourage the uptake of digital TV, according to Jason Bosland, Andrew Kenyon and Robin Wright
MEDIA POLICY
Local content lost in policy
Only real competition, and funding for local content, will secure the future of Australian TV, writes Stuart Cunningham
MEDIA POLICY
The signal is clear: do not adjust your sets
The federal government’s media policy fails to unlock TV’s full potential, writes Jock Given
BROADCASTING
Finally, Australia embarks on the road to digital radio
Jock Given looks at the good and bad reasons why the decision has taken so long
THE ECONOMY
Living with the consequences
John Howard triumphed on Telstra, and we’ll all have to put up with the results, writes Nicholas Gruen
BROADCASTING
‘The lion of the ABC’
David Bowman pays tribute to Allan Ashbolt, who died last week