Terry Flew
Biographic Data
| ID | 304490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Flew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Flew |
| SIGNATURE | FLEW T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4485-9338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 381 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 106 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Back to the future? Consumer preferences for bundling news with other content
In a high-choice media environment, consumer attention is split across multiple media which makes it challenging for news outlets to increase subscriptions to a single title. This study examined audiences’ paying intent for bundling news with non-news content. We conducted a choice-based conjoint analysis through an online survey (n = 2,125) including 7 core attributes: number of titles, news topics, non-news content, bundling with other digital …
Between technopolitics and geopolitics: AI and middle-power governance in the United Kingdom and Australia
This article examines a significant paradox within the global AI policy landscape, which is the proliferation of AI policies by nation states vs. the perception that national regulation of global technologies like AI is largely ineffective. While the United States, China and the European Union have been claimed to be ‘Digital Empires’ shaping AI governance, this study focuses on the approaches of two middle-sized nations, the United Kingdom and A…
Public Trust In The Ai Era: A Dialogue With Terry Flew
In this dialogue, Professor Terry Flew first explains the real-world changes and theoretical underpinnings that have prompted his Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship to study media and public trust. Based on the concept of mediated trust, he reveals the relationship between trust, power and communication technologies. Professor Flew then elaborates on how artificial intelligence (AI) affects trust in human–machine and interperso…
Trust, mediatization and mediated trust: Beyond post-truth and misinformation
Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t
How do platforms matter? Media power, platform power and the digital domination of Australian media
This paper examines how digital platforms have come to embody a new form of media power, reshaping the Australian media economy and challenging traditional understandings of media influence. While legacy media power was grounded in content ownership and political influence, platform power today stems from infrastructural dominance, algorithmic control, and the commodification of user data. Drawing on the concept of the network media economy, the …
Digital policy as problem space: Policy formation, public opinion, and Australia's Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024
This article examines Australia's Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 as a case study in digital policy formation, focusing on the socio-political processes that shaped its development. Framing the debate through Celia Lury's concept of ‘problem spaces’, the article explores how the issue of youth and social media use is constructed through ‘givens’ (perceived risks), ‘goals’ (protection), and contested ‘operators’ (policy…
What is news in a high-choice media environment? An adapted boundary framework for audience definitions of news
In a choice-rich media environment, audience perceptions of what is and is not news are not static. However, most of the scholarship about news definitions has been from the perspective of the practitioner. This article takes an audience-centric approach. Based on thematic analysis of 60 semi-structured interviews with Australians, it finds traditional understandings of news persist for many, but broader definitions outside of traditional concept…
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures
This paper addresses the question of trust in communication, or mediated trust, with regard to the historical evolution of the Internet and, more recently, debates around the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). At a conceptual level, it proposes a ‘Three I's’ framework of ideas, interests, and institutions as a way of understanding how and why current proposals for greater regulation of digital platforms counterpose questions around credibil…
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Communication as a Disciplinary Signifier in Australia: After the “Cultural Turn” and the “Digital Turn”
Communication as a discipline has a curious double life, being both disavowed in favor of something else, yet remains as a conceptual anchor point for a diverse range of intellectual projects. This argument focuses upon four challenges, or “turns,” that communication as a field has experienced: the “cultural turn” associated with cultural studies; the global turn; the “creative turn”; and the “digital turn” associated with the Internet and social…
The Value of News: Aligning Economic and Social Value From an Institutional Perspective
Journalism is considered essential to a functioning democracy. However, the continued viability of commercial news production is uncertain. News producers continue to lose advertising revenue to platform businesses dominating digital advertising markets, and alternate consumer direct revenue streams are not yet meeting the financial shortfall. This has led to questions of who should pay for news, the role of governments in maintaining news produc…
Digital platforms and the future of news: Regulating publisher-platform relations in Australia and Canada
This article provides an overview of news media bargaining codes as a way of regulating relations between digital platforms and news publishers. Taking the Codes developed in Australia and Canada as policy case studies, the paper discusses recent reforms which respond to the unequal bargaining power between digital platforms and news media publishers. Despite these reforms, there are few guarantees that funds received by news publishers will be r…
The Sage Handbook of the Digital Media Economy
Introduction: Sovereignty and the return of governance for digital platforms
Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance
This Open Access volume provides an in-depth exploration of global policy and governance issues related to digital platform regulation.
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation
Governments across the world are struggling to address the market dominance of technology companies through increased regulation. The Australian Federal government found itself leading the world in platform regulation when, in 2021, it enacted the Australian News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. The furore surrounding the introduction of the legislation, and Facebook's subsequent Australian ‘news ban’ exposed the limits of a…
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to Covid-19 pandemic using machine learning
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multi-national data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social…
The third way of global Internet governance: A dialogue with Terry Flew
In this dialogue, Terry Flew first outlines “a synoptic history” of the dominant discourses on Internet regulation. By exploring the global experiences over the past decades, Flew then articulates “the third way” of global Internet governance. Differing from both the “Silicon Valley” model of the United States and the state-led Chinese model, “the third way” is proposed to be built on trust and regulation. The typology of Internet governance addr…
Afterword: The fake and the authentic
The collection of papers in this special issue of Continuum draws out the many dimensions of fakery in contemporary digitally mediated cultures. The editors observe in their Introduction that ‘media fakery’ needs to be understood more broadly than simply fake news or misinformation. Rather, it sits within the broader media ecology of entertainment as well as news and occupies an ambiguous relationship to trust that invites the consumer to believe…
From Chauvel to creatives: Celebrating the career of Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham
This essay introduces the special issue of Media International Australia dedicated to the work of Stuart Cunningham. We note the scholarly contributions made by Stuart Cunningham to communications, media and cultural studies, including screen studies, creative industries and cultural policy studies. We also note his extensive contributions to institution building and academic leadership in engaging with industry and policy agencies from an applie…
The ambivalent presence of economics in the work of Stuart Cunningham
In this short paper, I want to consider the ways in which Stuart Cunningham's focus on work that was policy-relevant and could speak to industry led him to an ambivalent relationship with the discipline of economics. Rejecting the binary opposition between alleged 'neoliberal' economics and the cultural sphere as a site of unbridled moral good, Cunningham sought to both engage with and critique the dominant paradigms of economics, and their influ…
The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics
There has been much discussion worldwide about the crisis of trust, with evidence of declining trust in social, economic, political and media institutions. The rise of populism, and the differing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic between nations, has been drawing attention to wider implications of pervasive distrust, including distrust of the media. In this article, I develop three propositions. First, I identify trust studies as a rich interdisci…
Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics, Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller (2020)
Review of: Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics , Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller (2020) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 176 pp., ISBN 978-1-78990-062-0, p/bk, £15.95
Trust and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward
What has been referred to as the crisis of trust in social institutions has deep connections with communications, whether it be declining trust in news media and journalism, debates about the power of digital platforms and trust in online environments, questions surrounding media effects, the rise of political populism, or how trust or mistrust shapes interpersonal and intergroup communication. At the same time, trust in communications research h…
Six theories of neoliberalism
This article takes as its starting point the observation that neoliberalism is a concept that is 'oft-invoked but ill-defined'. It provides a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: (1) an all-purpose denunciatory category; (2) 'the way things are'; (3) an institutional framework characterizing particular forms of national capitalism, most notably the Anglo-American ones; (4) a dominant ideology of global capitalism; (5) a form of …
The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of media globalization
This article argues that the concept of national media systems, and the comparative study of media systems, institutions, and practices, retains relevance in an era of media globalization and technological convergence. It considers various critiques of ‘media systems’ theories, such as those which view the concept of ‘system’ as a legacy of an outdated positivism and those which argue that the media globalization is weakening the relevance of nat…
Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate
It has now been over a decade since the concept of creative industries was first put into the public domain by the Blair Labour government’s Creative Industries Mapping Documents in Britain. The concept has gained traction globally, but it has also been understood and developed in different ways in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America, as well as through international bodies such as UNCTAD and UNESCO. A review of the policy lit…
Culture, Communication and Hybridity: The Case of The Rap of China
This paper proposes that cultural hybridity presents an important way of synthesizing the study of culture and communication in the context of globalization. It explores the historical development of rap and hip-hop as translocal cultural forms, that have their roots in U.S. African-American culture, but have been adapted in multiple ‘translocal’ contexts around the world. It takes the highly successful Chinese online entertainment program The Ra…
Internet regulation as media policy: Rethinking the question of digital communication platform governance
This article identifies the current global ‘techlash’ towards the major digital and social media platforms as providing the context for a renewed debate about whether these digital platform companies are effectively media companies (publishers and broadcasters of media content), and implications this has for twenty-first-century media policy. It identifies content moderation as a critical site around which such debates are being played out, and c…
Populism, globalisation and social media
Since the 2010s, we witness the rise of populism and nationalism as part of a reaction against the global policies of the last 30 years in Western liberal democracies and beyond. This article seeks to unpack the rise of populism and nationalism and its relationship to social media. We review the relevant literature relating to the globalization paradigm and assess how it has influenced communication studies. The rise of the globalization theory c…
Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates
Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the 'Chicago School' or authors such as Friedrich von Hayek, neo-liberalism has become an all-purpose concept, explanatory device and basis for social critique. This presentation evaluates Michel Foucault's 1978-79 lectures, published as The Birth of Biopolitics, to consider how he used the term neo-liberalism, and…
Globalization, neo-globalization and post-globalization: The challenge of populism and the return of the national
In the context of a perceived crisis of globalization, this article outlines key features of the globalization paradigm that bore influence in media and communication studies, observing two recurring and related weaknesses: underestimation of the continuing significance of nation-states, and overestimation of the extent to which cultures and identities had become ‘post-national’ and cosmopolitan. The rise of populism could lead to a post-global e…
The Promise of Computational Journalism
Computational journalism involves the application of software and technologies to the activities of journalism, and it draws from the fields of computer science, the social sciences, and media and communications. New technologies may enhance the traditional aims of journalism, or may initiate greater interaction between journalists and information and communication technology (ICT) specialists. The enhanced use of computing in news production is …
Journalism as social networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 federal election
The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism have coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism — as the figure of the ‘journalist as hero’ is fading, new media forms have facilitated the production of news content ‘from below’ by citizens and ‘pro-am’ journalists. Participation in an action-research project run during the 2007 Australian federal election, youdecide 2007, allowed the authors to gain fi…
Engaging, Persuading, and Entertaining Citizens: Mediatization and the Australian Political Public Sphere
This paper draws upon public sphere theories and the “mediatization of politics” debate to develop a mapping of the Australian political public sphere, with particular reference to television. It discusses the concept of a “political public sphere,” and the contribution of both non-traditional news media genres, such as satirical television and infotainment formats, to an expanded conception of the political public sphere. It considers these ques…
Confucius Institutes and the Network: Communication Approach to Public Diplomacy
Discussions of public diplomacy in recent years have paid a growing amount of attention to networks. This network perspective is understood to provide insights into various issues of public diplomacy, such as its effects, credibility, reputation, identity and narratives. This paper applies the network idea to analyze China's Confucius Institutes initiative. It understands Confucius Institutes as a global network and argues that this network struc…
The media were American: US mass media in decline
by Jeremy Tunstall, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 465 + xiv pp., £31.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐19‐518147‐0 When I took Bill Clinton's My Life on a long flight as reading material some yea
Toward a Cultural Economic Geography of Creative Industries and Urban Development: Introduction to the Special Issue on Creative Industries and Urban Development
The connections between the development of creative industries and the growth of cities was noted by several sources in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but explanations relating to the nature of the link have thus far proven to be insufficient. The two dominant “scripts” were those of “creative clusters” and “creative/cities/creative class” theories, but both have significant limitations arising from how they privilege amenities-led…
The turn to regulation in digital communication: The ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry and Australian media policy
This article provides an overview of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry, as a case study in the new thinking about digital platform regulation taking place in many nations. With its focus upon the impact of digital platforms on news and journalism, the ACCC Inquiry parallels other reviews, such as the Cairncross Review on the Future of Journalism in the United Kingdom. While the Inquiry had a somew…
Improving Trust in News: Audience Solutions
As the news media continue to search for sustainable business models in response to digitisation, concern about low levels of trust in news has been rising. Trust in news brands is seen as an essential pre-requisite for their economic survival. While there is extant research on the crisis of trust in news, less attention has been paid to identifying possible solutions from the perspective of the audience. Based on a survey of 1619 Australian news…
Creativity, the ‘new humanism’ and cultural studies
Our traditional approach to solving problems relies upon logical, tried and tested methods. We can change our behaviour only by looking at issues from different angles. Creative thinking involves c
Xi Dada loves Peng Mama: Digital culture and the return of charismatic authority in China
With Xi Jinping's consolidation of political power in China, a personality cult has increasingly emerged. In this article, we analyze online documents and state news media to argue that this phenomenon is driven in part by local government officials and traditional media but most significantly by individual Chinese 'netizens'. The current personality cult phenomenon is thus primarily society-driven and bottom-up rather than state-driven and top-d…
Not Yet the Internet Election: Online Media, Political Commentary and the 2007 Australian Federal Election
This paper undertakes an overview of two developments in online media that coincided with the 'year-long campaign' that was the 2007 Australian Federal election. It discusses the relatively successful use of the Internet and social media in the 'Kevin07' Australian Labor Party campaign, and contrasts this to the Liberal-National Party's faltering use of You Tube for policy announcements. It also notes the struggle for authority in interpreting po…
Platform policy: Evaluating different responses to the challenges of platform power
This article identifies a ‘policy turn’ in questions of internet governance, as politicians and policy-makers across multiple jurisdictions grapple with the power of digital platforms, and associated questions of accountability, transparency, market dominance and content regulation. The EU Hate Speech monitoring code, the Christchurch Call, the UK Online Harms Bill and Australia’s ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry are manifestations of this trend, i…
Return of the regulatory state: A stakeholder analysis of Australia’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and online news policy
In this paper, we undertake a stakeholder analysis of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry to understand the nature and influence of different forms of public input. Our findings show that nation-state regulation of digital platforms is now very much on the policy agenda worldwide, with a focus upon the competition policy dimensions of platform regulation. The second key finding is that the regulatory act…
The impact of Covid-19 on cultural tourism: Art, culture and communication in four regional sites of Queensland, Australia
The arts, cultural and creative industries are among the most adversely affected sectors of the economy in the wake of COVID-19 social distancing measures, travel restrictions and prohibition of large gatherings of people. Focusing on Cairns, the Gold Coast, Central West and the Sunshine Coast - four regional areas of Queensland, Australia - this article provides an overview of impacts on cultural tourism and considers the prospects for regional …
Foucault, Weber, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Governmentality
This paper argues that Michel Foucault's lectures that form The Birth of Biopolitics owe a considerable debt to the thought of Max Weber, particularly in their analysis of how different socio-legal regimes shape distinctive national forms of capitalist economies, and the role that is played by social and economic institutions in the shaping of individual identities. This is in contrast to a common interpretation of Foucault's account of neolibera…
Seeing the Outer Suburbs: Addressing the Urban Bias in Creative Place Thinking
Collis C., Freebody S. and Flew T. Seeing the outer suburbs: addressing the urban bias in creative place thinking, Regional Studies. This paper draws upon quantitative and qualitative research into Australian cities to question the assumption that creative industries workers inherently seek to cluster in inner-urban areas. It challenges this foundational assumption by combining a critical application of the location quotient analysis of major Aus…
The Social Contract and Beyond in Broadcast Media Policy
This article undertakes an institutionalist analysis of broadcast media policy, analyzing sources of both stability and change over time. It draws attention to the distinctive features of broadcast licenses as a form of soft property and the significance of policy settlements as ways in which regulators in different countries have managed the relationship between private ownership and public interest. It traces the development of broadcast media …
Mongrels and hybrids: Theorising Australian television
Review of John Hartley, Tele‐ology: Studies in Television. London: Routledge, 1992. 245pp. ISBN 0 415 06817 7. $22.95. Distributed by the Law Book Company Limited. Tom O'Regan, Australian Television Culture, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993. 219pp. ISBN 186373 527 5. $22.95
Cultural materialism and cultural policy: Reassessing Raymond Williams
No‐one doubts the significance of Raymond Williams’ contribution to the field of research and practice which we today call cultural studies. What has been in doubt, however, is the extent to which an interest in Williams’ work is a largely antiquarian one, or whether his formulations can continue to provide a framework for analysing cultural institutions, formations and practices. The former reading has been the most common one in cultural studie…
Government, citizenship and cultural policy: Expertise and participation in Australian media policy
The study of institutions and policy processes in formation of culture have been a major concern of policy debate, which has been a major debate in Australian cultural studies in the 1990s (Bennett 1992a; Cunningham 1992; O'Regan 1993; cf. McGuigan 1996). Bennett (1992) argues that in modern societies is defined less by a distinct series of artistic and intellectual practices, ways of life of distinctive communities or social groups, or as a syst…
The Goldsworthy Report: Credibility and Australian Information Policy
Recent Australian federal government statements on information policy can be seen as manifesting a tension, and possibility a deeper crisis of credibility. On the one hand, the rhetoric of global neo-liberalism emphasises the 'ungovernability' of the global information infrastructure and the need to forsake interventionist approaches by nation-states. On the other, documents such as the Goldsworthy Report promote a supply-side economic nationalis…
From Censorship to Policy: Rethinking Media Content Regulation and Classification
Debates about media content regulation have tended to be dominated by pro-censorship and anti-censorship arguments. This paper argues for a shift in understanding towards a more policy-oriented and empirical approach, which recognises that the field has been characterised not so much by the 'prohibition model', but by complex and multifaceted techniques of institutional governance, and less by censorship than by restriction and classification. Th…
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Media Wars: Media Studies and Journalism Education
From 'Taste and Standards' to Structural Pluralism: Activism in the Australian Media Policy Process
This paper traces the emergence of media policy reform activism in Australia around media content regulations for commercial broadcasting, from 1953 to 1976. Its focus is on processes of participation in public inquiries, and the ways in which these were manifestations of what Anna Yeatman (1998) has termed 'activism in the policy process'. It finds evidence that such processes facilitated the emergence of more wide-ranging campaigns for media re…
Introduction to reviews of John Hartley's A Short History of Cultural Studies
A Short History of Cultural StudiesJohn HartleyLondon: Sage, 2003, 189 pp. (pbk), ISBN 0-7619-5028-1 Reviews of leading texts in media and cultural studies have tended to take one of two forms. The first is that where the ‘big name’ academic reviewers are brought out to review the new books of other ‘big name’ academics. While these exercises are often interesting—as much for what they tell the reader about the reviewer as what the reviewer says …
Creative Industries: From the Chicken Cheer to the Culture of Services
A Medium for Mateship: Commercial Talk Radio in Australia
Creativity, cultural studies, and services industries
While both the growth of services industries and the nature of creativity as a productive input are widely recognized, they are poorly understood. This paper considers the relationship between services industry growth and creativity inputs as part of a “cultural turn” in contemporary capitalist economies, with particular reference to the recent work of Scott Lash and John Urry, Jeremy Rifkin, and Richard Florida. It proposes ways of rethinking th…
Creativity, the ‘new humanism’ and cultural studies
Our traditional approach to solving problems relies upon logical, tried and tested methods. We can change our behaviour only by looking at issues from different angles. Creative thinking involves c
Sovereignty and Software
This article will critically appraise two approaches to cultural policy. The first focuses upon the need for a national cultural policy in order to establish a national “common culture” among its citizens, through measures to promote the arts and popular media sectors, and set limits to the flow of imported materials into the nation. This is what has been termed the “sovereignty” model, and has historically been the driver of cultural policy deba…
Alternative Intellectual Property Systems for the Digital Age
This paper investigates the current turbulent state of copyright in the digital age, and explores the viability of alternative compensation systems. The paper critically appraises the increased recourse to digital rights management (DRM) technologies, which are designed to restrict access to and usage of digital content. Considerable technical challenges associated with DRM systems have necessitated increasingly aggressive recourse to the law. A …
The Social Contract and Beyond in Broadcast Media Policy
This article undertakes an institutionalist analysis of broadcast media policy, analyzing sources of both stability and change over time. It draws attention to the distinctive features of broadcast licenses as a form of soft property and the significance of policy settlements as ways in which regulators in different countries have managed the relationship between private ownership and public interest. It traces the development of broadcast media …
The new middle class meets the creative class: The Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and creative innovation in 21st-century China
‘MBA fever’ in China needs to be understood in the wider context of forces driving structural change in China's relation to the global knowledge economy. The rise of a ‘new middle class’ in China is connected to the new claims for cultural leadership of an emergent ‘creative class’, which generates new issues about the relevance of the MBA in China, in terms of its relevance to Chinese economic circumstances, its flexibility and its capacity to r…
Understanding Global Media
Understanding Global Media offers a timely and comprehensive overview of global media production and circulation. Grounded in extensive case study material in order to illustrate key debates, the book analyzes media industries, production, content, audiences and policies on an international scale. Written by a leading author, it is both a thorough synthesis of existing academic work and an ambitious statement of new research directions. Drawing i…
Not Yet the Internet Election: Online Media, Political Commentary and the 2007 Australian Federal Election
This paper undertakes an overview of two developments in online media that coincided with the 'year-long campaign' that was the 2007 Australian Federal election. It discusses the relatively successful use of the Internet and social media in the 'Kevin07' Australian Labor Party campaign, and contrasts this to the Liberal-National Party's faltering use of You Tube for policy announcements. It also notes the struggle for authority in interpreting po…
The Cultural Economy Moment?
This paper explores the rise of cultural economy as a key organising concept over the 2000s. While it has intellectual precursors in political economy, sociology and postmodernism, it has been work undertaken in the fields of cultural economic geography, creative industries, the culture of service industries and cultural policy where it has come to the forefront, particularly around whether we are now in a ‘creative economy’. While work undertake…
The citizen’s voice: Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty and its contribution to media citizenship debates
This paper analyses Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loyalty (Hirschman 1970) as a basis for understanding the relationship between media and citizenship. It considers the significance of Hirschman's concept of voice in relation to media policy, media participation through user-created content, and the rise of 'citizen media' and 'citizen journalism'. It associates these developments with a 'de-centering' of both media practice and media studie…
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The Special Broadcasting Service after 30 Years: Public Service Media and New Ways of Thinking about Media and Citizenship
This article considers the distinctive ways in which the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has evolved over its history since 1980, and how it has managed competing claims to being a multicultural yet broad-appeal broadcaster, and a comprehensive yet low-cost media service. It draws attention to the challenges presented by a global rethinking of the nature of citizenship and its relationship to media, for which SBS is well placed as a leader, an…
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