| Description |
xxv, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Australian cultural studies |
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Australian cultural studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: public voices, private interests -- 1. Broadcasting under Labor: 1983 to 1994 / Anne Davies -- 2. Commercial TV: bucks, blokes, bureaucrats and the bird / Jock Given -- 3. Privatising the public interest: the public and the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 / Jo Hawke -- 4. 'Deals, debts and duopolies': the print media / Denis Cryle -- 5. Images of nation: economic and cultural aspects of Australian content regulations for commercial television / Terry Flew -- 6. Striving for difference: commercial radio policy / Toby Miller -- 7. Pay TV policies: are audiences the 'users' who will pay? / Tim Dwyer -- 8. The ABC goes to market: transformations of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation / Jennifer Craik and Glyn Davis -- 9. Which world? Whose/who's home?: Special Broadcasting in the Australian communication alphabet / Andrew Jakubowicz and Kerie Newell -- 10. Multiplying minorities: the case of community radio / Albert Moran -- 11. Indigenous media development in Australia 1970-94 / Helen Molnar -- 12. Voice blo mipla all ilan man: Torres Strait Islanders' struggle for television access / Michael Meadows -- 13. Corresponding affairs: foreign policy and media / John Tebbutt -- 14. Editorial integrity and Australia Television / Errol Hodge |
| Summary |
Public Voices, Private Interests examines the social and policy context of Australian media and communications in the 1990s. Dealing with both print and the broadcast media, it covers the key areas of debate: new communications technologies, deregulation, cable and pay television, major restructuring within the communications industries and Australian content requirements. It also includes chapters on community radio, SBS and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media. This collection is essential reading for students in Media Studies and Politics, and anyone looking for a better understanding of our Fourth Estate |
| Analysis |
ALP policy |
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Aborigines |
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Broadcasting |
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Competition |
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Deregulation |
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Federal issue |
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History, 1980-1989 |
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History, 1990-1999 |
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Mass media |
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Media ownership |
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Minorities |
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Public television |
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Sponsorship |
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Subscription television |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary students |
| Subject |
Mass media policy -- Australia.
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Mass media -- Australia.
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| Author |
Craik, Jennifer, editor
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Bailey, Julie James, editor
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Moran, Albert, editor
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| LC no. |
95215845 |
| ISBN |
186373628X |
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9781863736282 |
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