Michael Meadows
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Meadows |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Meadows |
| SIGNATURE | MEADOWS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Research Directions, Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography
This book discusses research directions and achievements in contemporary geography and documents most current theoretical considerations
Past, present and future climate connectivity informs conservation strategies in the Yangtze River delta urban agglomeration, China
Reinventing the heights
Australian rockclimbing culture and climbers have been imagined in a particular way with the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century press playing a key role. Australian landscapes, including mountains, were incorporated into Indigenous cosmology for millennia before Aboriginal people discovered Europeans. But with the colonial invasion, the very nature of the landscape in the new colony meant that climbing culture was bound to take on a dif…
Land, Listening and Voice
For the most part, the story of the Australian Indigenous land rights struggle has been told by the Australian media - media that have attracted consistent criticism for their portrayal of Indigenous Australians. On the other hand, Australia boasts a vibrant and accomplished Indigenous media sector that has also told the land rights story from a different perspective, albeit to a much smaller audience. The authors are currently a part of a resear…
Reexamining the Relative Agreement Model of Opinion Dynamics
We present a brief history of models of opinion dynamics in groups of agents, and summarise work from the creation of the Bounded Confidence model (Krause 2000; Hegselmann and Krause 2002) through to the more recent development of the Relative Agreement (RA) model (Deffuant et al. 2002; Deffuant 2006). In the RA model, randomly-selected pairs of agents interact, expressing their opinions and their confidence in those opinions; and each agent then…
Putting the citizen back into journalism
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information. It has created arguably the highest per capita listenership globally for a national community broadcasting sector. This article argues that community journalism is playing a crucial role in addressing the ‘democratic deficit’ by fostering citizen participation in public life in many different ways. Th…
Raising the Volume
This article explores Indigenous contributions to shaping public and policy agendas through their use of the news media. It reports on research conducted for the Australian News Media and Indigenous Policy-making 1988-2008 project that is investigating relationships between the representation of Indigenous peoples in public media and the development of Indigenous affairs policies. Interviews with Indigenous policy advocates, journalists and publi…
Community broadcasting and mental health
This article sets out to explore the role of community broadcasting in enhancing the emotional and social well-being of its diverse audiences. We argue that communitybased broadcasting is having a positive impact on the state of mental health of its audiences. We make our argument by reviewing audience research data from a study of the Australian community broadcasting sector conducted between 2004 and 2007. The findings reveal that the community…
Making good sense
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information — evidence of a failure by mainstream journalism to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the authors' landmark national qualitative audience study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community journalism. The authors argue that journalism …
Electronic dreaming tracks
A wide range of audiences now accesses Indigenous community radio and television across Australia. This article draws from the first-ever audience study of the sector, ‘Community Media Matters’, completed in 2007. It reveals that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media offer an essential service to communities and play a central organising role in community life. Although previous studies into the Australian Indigenous media sector have sugge…
A Quiet Revolution
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information - evidence of a failure by mainstream media to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the first qualitative study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community radio and television from the perspectives of their audiences. The authors argue …
Something New in the Air
Creating an Australian community public sphere
The first comprehensive study of the Australian community radio sector at the turn of the millennium revealed insights into the contemporary operations of the sector, particularly in terms of its connections to communities, production of local content, and creation of a citizens media. It offered an analysis of the people working in community radio their training levels, skills, personal profile, career goals and so on. This article looks specifi…
Through the Lens of the Local
This article explores the role of community or `public arena' journalism in offering alternative frameworks for making sense of the world through the lens of local communities and their various networks. Our particular focus is on new research into Australia's unique community broadcasting sector, based on nationwide telephone surveys and focus group discussions involving a broad range of community journalists, which suggests that they fulfil an …
Bridging the Gaps
Australia has a long history of mainstream media misrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. Frameworks for thinking about Indigenous people were set during the early period of colonization and have remained trapped there for more than 200 years. Contemporary media coverage of Indigenous affairs has shifted and does include some positive images, and sometimes provides important contextual information for audiences who use med…
Creating a Community Public Sphere
This article draws upon recent findings of a study of the community radio sector in Australia
Speaking and Hearing
Disenfranchised Aboriginal people in both Canada and Australia have had a long struggle to gain access to democratic institutions like the media. Aboriginal newspapers since the late nineteenth century in Australia, and early twentieth century in Canada, have played a crucial role in the symbolic reclamation of space for an Aboriginal public sphere. In this paper, we suggest that a combination of social and political events, along with particular…
Silent Talking
The recent Productivity Commission inquiry into Broadcasting in Australia has acknowledged the important place of Indigenous production in the national mediascape. The inquiry's draft report recommended changes to the Broadcasting Services Act which take into account some aspects of the kind of cultural production going on now in the Indigenous media sector across Australia.
Cultural Studies and Journalism
The study of journalism has not been - nor should it be - restricted to those who call themselves 'journalists' or 'journalism educators'. The cultural practice of journalism focuses on issues, institutions and events 'from the outside', so it would seem hypocritical to suggest that journalists alone should have the right to critique journalism. This article looks at the usefulness of cultural studies in enabling a critique and analysis of journa…
Into the New Millennium
This article explores the nature of Indigenous media production in Australia in relation to a two-year study - the Millennium Project - which has begun to explore the implications and possibilities offered by new media technologies in Indigenous communities across the continent. Within a framework of the continuing misrepresentation of Indigenous people and issues, many communities have begun to develop alternative media systems with alternative …
Ideas from the Bush
Indigenous communities in Australia and Canada are challenging notions of the cultural hegemony of mass media. Implicit in new media technologies are empowering strategies which have enabled community broadcasters to appropriate media for their own culturally specific use. In Australia, Aborigines have adopted interactive and local television as a cultural resource to aid in strengthening languages and culture. In Canada, a pan-Canadian Native te…
Lost Opportunities
There is no doubt that the media has played a crucial role in the Mabo debate. The media represented an important site where the definition of concepts such as native title have been negotiated. This article suggests that difficulties exist in this negotiation, and that the Australian media seem to lack the maturity and sensitivity needed to make a lasting positive contribution to the process. For the vast majority of Australians, the media provi…
Re‐claiming a cultural identity
Putting the citizen back into journalism
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information. It has created arguably the highest per capita listenership globally for a national community broadcasting sector. This article argues that community journalism is playing a crucial role in addressing the ‘democratic deficit’ by fostering citizen participation in public life in many different ways. Th…
Through the Lens of the Local
This article explores the role of community or `public arena' journalism in offering alternative frameworks for making sense of the world through the lens of local communities and their various networks. Our particular focus is on new research into Australia's unique community broadcasting sector, based on nationwide telephone surveys and focus group discussions involving a broad range of community journalists, which suggests that they fulfil an …
Raising the Volume
This article explores Indigenous contributions to shaping public and policy agendas through their use of the news media. It reports on research conducted for the Australian News Media and Indigenous Policy-making 1988-2008 project that is investigating relationships between the representation of Indigenous peoples in public media and the development of Indigenous affairs policies. Interviews with Indigenous policy advocates, journalists and publi…
Re‐claiming a cultural identity
Making good sense
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information — evidence of a failure by mainstream journalism to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the authors' landmark national qualitative audience study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community journalism. The authors argue that journalism …
Bridging the Gaps
Australia has a long history of mainstream media misrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. Frameworks for thinking about Indigenous people were set during the early period of colonization and have remained trapped there for more than 200 years. Contemporary media coverage of Indigenous affairs has shifted and does include some positive images, and sometimes provides important contextual information for audiences who use med…
Creating a Community Public Sphere
This article draws upon recent findings of a study of the community radio sector in Australia
Reexamining the Relative Agreement Model of Opinion Dynamics
We present a brief history of models of opinion dynamics in groups of agents, and summarise work from the creation of the Bounded Confidence model (Krause 2000; Hegselmann and Krause 2002) through to the more recent development of the Relative Agreement (RA) model (Deffuant et al. 2002; Deffuant 2006). In the RA model, randomly-selected pairs of agents interact, expressing their opinions and their confidence in those opinions; and each agent then…
Community broadcasting and mental health
This article sets out to explore the role of community broadcasting in enhancing the emotional and social well-being of its diverse audiences. We argue that communitybased broadcasting is having a positive impact on the state of mental health of its audiences. We make our argument by reviewing audience research data from a study of the Australian community broadcasting sector conducted between 2004 and 2007. The findings reveal that the community…
Into the New Millennium
This article explores the nature of Indigenous media production in Australia in relation to a two-year study - the Millennium Project - which has begun to explore the implications and possibilities offered by new media technologies in Indigenous communities across the continent. Within a framework of the continuing misrepresentation of Indigenous people and issues, many communities have begun to develop alternative media systems with alternative …
Ideas from the Bush
Indigenous communities in Australia and Canada are challenging notions of the cultural hegemony of mass media. Implicit in new media technologies are empowering strategies which have enabled community broadcasters to appropriate media for their own culturally specific use. In Australia, Aborigines have adopted interactive and local television as a cultural resource to aid in strengthening languages and culture. In Canada, a pan-Canadian Native te…
Cultural Studies and Journalism
The study of journalism has not been - nor should it be - restricted to those who call themselves 'journalists' or 'journalism educators'. The cultural practice of journalism focuses on issues, institutions and events 'from the outside', so it would seem hypocritical to suggest that journalists alone should have the right to critique journalism. This article looks at the usefulness of cultural studies in enabling a critique and analysis of journa…
Reinventing the heights
Australian rockclimbing culture and climbers have been imagined in a particular way with the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century press playing a key role. Australian landscapes, including mountains, were incorporated into Indigenous cosmology for millennia before Aboriginal people discovered Europeans. But with the colonial invasion, the very nature of the landscape in the new colony meant that climbing culture was bound to take on a dif…
Land, Listening and Voice
For the most part, the story of the Australian Indigenous land rights struggle has been told by the Australian media - media that have attracted consistent criticism for their portrayal of Indigenous Australians. On the other hand, Australia boasts a vibrant and accomplished Indigenous media sector that has also told the land rights story from a different perspective, albeit to a much smaller audience. The authors are currently a part of a resear…
Electronic dreaming tracks
A wide range of audiences now accesses Indigenous community radio and television across Australia. This article draws from the first-ever audience study of the sector, ‘Community Media Matters’, completed in 2007. It reveals that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media offer an essential service to communities and play a central organising role in community life. Although previous studies into the Australian Indigenous media sector have sugge…
A Quiet Revolution
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information - evidence of a failure by mainstream media to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the first qualitative study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community radio and television from the perspectives of their audiences. The authors argue …
Creating an Australian community public sphere
The first comprehensive study of the Australian community radio sector at the turn of the millennium revealed insights into the contemporary operations of the sector, particularly in terms of its connections to communities, production of local content, and creation of a citizens media. It offered an analysis of the people working in community radio their training levels, skills, personal profile, career goals and so on. This article looks specifi…
Lost Opportunities
There is no doubt that the media has played a crucial role in the Mabo debate. The media represented an important site where the definition of concepts such as native title have been negotiated. This article suggests that difficulties exist in this negotiation, and that the Australian media seem to lack the maturity and sensitivity needed to make a lasting positive contribution to the process. For the vast majority of Australians, the media provi…
Lost Opportunities
There is no doubt that the media has played a crucial role in the Mabo debate. The media represented an important site where the definition of concepts such as native title have been negotiated. This article suggests that difficulties exist in this negotiation, and that the Australian media seem to lack the maturity and sensitivity needed to make a lasting positive contribution to the process. For the vast majority of Australians, the media provi…
Re‐claiming a cultural identity
Ideas from the Bush
Indigenous communities in Australia and Canada are challenging notions of the cultural hegemony of mass media. Implicit in new media technologies are empowering strategies which have enabled community broadcasters to appropriate media for their own culturally specific use. In Australia, Aborigines have adopted interactive and local television as a cultural resource to aid in strengthening languages and culture. In Canada, a pan-Canadian Native te…
Into the New Millennium
This article explores the nature of Indigenous media production in Australia in relation to a two-year study - the Millennium Project - which has begun to explore the implications and possibilities offered by new media technologies in Indigenous communities across the continent. Within a framework of the continuing misrepresentation of Indigenous people and issues, many communities have begun to develop alternative media systems with alternative …
Cultural Studies and Journalism
The study of journalism has not been - nor should it be - restricted to those who call themselves 'journalists' or 'journalism educators'. The cultural practice of journalism focuses on issues, institutions and events 'from the outside', so it would seem hypocritical to suggest that journalists alone should have the right to critique journalism. This article looks at the usefulness of cultural studies in enabling a critique and analysis of journa…
Speaking and Hearing
Disenfranchised Aboriginal people in both Canada and Australia have had a long struggle to gain access to democratic institutions like the media. Aboriginal newspapers since the late nineteenth century in Australia, and early twentieth century in Canada, have played a crucial role in the symbolic reclamation of space for an Aboriginal public sphere. In this paper, we suggest that a combination of social and political events, along with particular…
Silent Talking
The recent Productivity Commission inquiry into Broadcasting in Australia has acknowledged the important place of Indigenous production in the national mediascape. The inquiry's draft report recommended changes to the Broadcasting Services Act which take into account some aspects of the kind of cultural production going on now in the Indigenous media sector across Australia.
Bridging the Gaps
Australia has a long history of mainstream media misrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. Frameworks for thinking about Indigenous people were set during the early period of colonization and have remained trapped there for more than 200 years. Contemporary media coverage of Indigenous affairs has shifted and does include some positive images, and sometimes provides important contextual information for audiences who use med…
Creating a Community Public Sphere
This article draws upon recent findings of a study of the community radio sector in Australia
Through the Lens of the Local
This article explores the role of community or `public arena' journalism in offering alternative frameworks for making sense of the world through the lens of local communities and their various networks. Our particular focus is on new research into Australia's unique community broadcasting sector, based on nationwide telephone surveys and focus group discussions involving a broad range of community journalists, which suggests that they fulfil an …
Creating an Australian community public sphere
The first comprehensive study of the Australian community radio sector at the turn of the millennium revealed insights into the contemporary operations of the sector, particularly in terms of its connections to communities, production of local content, and creation of a citizens media. It offered an analysis of the people working in community radio their training levels, skills, personal profile, career goals and so on. This article looks specifi…
Something New in the Air
A Quiet Revolution
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information - evidence of a failure by mainstream media to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the first qualitative study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community radio and television from the perspectives of their audiences. The authors argue …
Making good sense
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information — evidence of a failure by mainstream journalism to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the authors' landmark national qualitative audience study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community journalism. The authors argue that journalism …
Electronic dreaming tracks
A wide range of audiences now accesses Indigenous community radio and television across Australia. This article draws from the first-ever audience study of the sector, ‘Community Media Matters’, completed in 2007. It reveals that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media offer an essential service to communities and play a central organising role in community life. Although previous studies into the Australian Indigenous media sector have sugge…
Community broadcasting and mental health
This article sets out to explore the role of community broadcasting in enhancing the emotional and social well-being of its diverse audiences. We argue that communitybased broadcasting is having a positive impact on the state of mental health of its audiences. We make our argument by reviewing audience research data from a study of the Australian community broadcasting sector conducted between 2004 and 2007. The findings reveal that the community…
Reexamining the Relative Agreement Model of Opinion Dynamics
We present a brief history of models of opinion dynamics in groups of agents, and summarise work from the creation of the Bounded Confidence model (Krause 2000; Hegselmann and Krause 2002) through to the more recent development of the Relative Agreement (RA) model (Deffuant et al. 2002; Deffuant 2006). In the RA model, randomly-selected pairs of agents interact, expressing their opinions and their confidence in those opinions; and each agent then…
Putting the citizen back into journalism
Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information. It has created arguably the highest per capita listenership globally for a national community broadcasting sector. This article argues that community journalism is playing a crucial role in addressing the ‘democratic deficit’ by fostering citizen participation in public life in many different ways. Th…
Raising the Volume
This article explores Indigenous contributions to shaping public and policy agendas through their use of the news media. It reports on research conducted for the Australian News Media and Indigenous Policy-making 1988-2008 project that is investigating relationships between the representation of Indigenous peoples in public media and the development of Indigenous affairs policies. Interviews with Indigenous policy advocates, journalists and publi…
Reinventing the heights
Australian rockclimbing culture and climbers have been imagined in a particular way with the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century press playing a key role. Australian landscapes, including mountains, were incorporated into Indigenous cosmology for millennia before Aboriginal people discovered Europeans. But with the colonial invasion, the very nature of the landscape in the new colony meant that climbing culture was bound to take on a dif…
Land, Listening and Voice
For the most part, the story of the Australian Indigenous land rights struggle has been told by the Australian media - media that have attracted consistent criticism for their portrayal of Indigenous Australians. On the other hand, Australia boasts a vibrant and accomplished Indigenous media sector that has also told the land rights story from a different perspective, albeit to a much smaller audience. The authors are currently a part of a resear…
Research Directions, Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography
This book discusses research directions and achievements in contemporary geography and documents most current theoretical considerations
Past, present and future climate connectivity informs conservation strategies in the Yangtze River delta urban agglomeration, China
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)