This article is a brief review and critique of the main scholarly approaches to thinking about
popular forms of news in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly in regards to …

In Australia, as in many comparable democracies, the role of the media in the political
process is high on the public agenda. There is a perception of widespread disillusionment …

The role of communications and information media long has been acknowledged as a key
factor in religious controversy. Since the 1970s “cult wars,” new religions scholars have …

This chapter analyzes some of the key changes to the Australian tabloid media landscape in
the last two decades, focussing in particular on newspapers and television. It notes that one …

This paper investigates the purpose of society's construction of 'others' through the gaze of
the mass media. During times of crisis, the paper argues, Western mass media are faced …

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FREE-TO-AIR A History of Sydney’s Commercial Television Programming, 1956-2012 Madeleine …

This thesis examines the changing relationships between television, politics, audiences and
the public sphere. Premised on the notion that mediated politics is now understood “in new …

At the risk of tempting fate or even history, we suggest that there is a spectre stalking the
global mediasphere. This spectre is the tabloid. Like any good spectre, it is hard to pin down …

There is, we contend, considerably more complexity in the differentiated field and
communicative structures delivering television news today than has so far has been …

Abstract In June 2004, when Creative New Zealand announced that the artist collective et al.
had been selected as New Zealand's representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale, much of …