Developing Dialogues: Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia - Couverture souple

Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael; Foxwell, Kerrie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841502758 ISBN 13 : 9781841502755

Editeur : Intellect Books, 2010

Synopsis

The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship. Based on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide represents an essential service for indigenous and ethnic audiences, empowering them at various levels, fostering ‘active citizenry’ and enhancing the processes of democracy. The authors, former journalists, spent months on the road, travelling tens of thousands of kilometers from urban centres to the most remote regions of the Central Desert to ask why they engage with and adapt local broadcast media. They draw on two decades of primary research material taken from face-to-face interviews and focus-group discussions with audiences. Consequently, Developing Dialogues offers international researchers a new social, cultural and historical perspective on the emergence of the unique Australian community broadcasting sector within the context of other global trends. It will appeal to scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as to industry practitioners and policy makers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Susan Forde is a professor of journalism at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has authored or co-authored three books and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters on media and journalism, with a focus on community-based media, alternative media, alternative forms of journalism and social movement media. She is the founding editor, with Professor Chris Atton, of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media. She currently leads national and internationally funded projects about specialist community-run media for multicultural, Indigenous and local communities. She worked as a journalist in both mainstream and alternative/community media sectors before joining academia.

Contact: Griffith Centre for Social Cultural Research, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.

Michael Meadows is Professor of Journalism at Griffith University. He has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for 10 years before moving into Journalism Education in the late 1980s. His extensive research interests have included media representations of Indigenous affairs in Australia and Canada, journalism theory and practice, media representations of the Australian landscape, and community media audiences, policy and practice. Professor Meadows was one of the early researchers investigating journalism education and work-integrated learning.

Dr Kerrie Foxwell is a Lecturer at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. She is a member of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research. This article draws on research conducted with colleagues Professor Michael Meadows, Associate Professor Susan Forde and, in a later project, Dr Jacqui Ewart.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Intellect Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841502758
• ISBN 13: 9781841502755
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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