Jock Given
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jock Given |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jock |
| FAMILY NAME | Given |
| SIGNATURE | GIVEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Turning Off the Television: Broadcasting's Uncertain Future and America's Pie: Trade and Culture After 9/11. He was recently awarded a doctorate by the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne for a thesis about the pioneering wireless entrepreneur Ernest Fisk. He is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University's Institute for Social Research and was previously Director of the Communications Law Centre and Policy Advisor at the Australian Film Commission. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives
Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives." Australian Historical Studies, 52(4), pp. 658–659
Born Global, Made Local: Multinational Enterprise and A ustralia's Early Wireless Industry
This article analyses the evolution of multinational enterprise through a case study of the Australasian wireless company, AWA , in the first half of the twentieth century. Ownership, location, and internalisation advantages explain aspects of the industry's rapid internationalisation, but other factors, including restrictive domestic legislation and oligopolistic competition, are also important. The imperialism of the era encouraged globalisatio…
Owning and renting: Speculations about the past, present and future acquisition of audiovisual content by consumers
The market for digital audiovisual content in Australia, so far, has not exhibited a clearly dominant trend towards owning or renting. This article analyses the historical reasons that individuals have chosen to own audiovisual content rather than rent it; sets out evidence of recent trends in the ownership and renting of audiovisual and music content and books in Australia and overseas; and concludes with some speculation about the factors that …
Rating the audience: The business of media
Review of the book 'Rating the audience: the business of media', by Mark Balnaves and Tom O'Regan with Ben Goldsmith, published by Bloomsbury, London, 2011
Australian Internet Histories: It's Time
Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the internet has grown steadily, metamorphosised in many surprising ways, and now is central to Australian society and media. As a relatively new medium, we still know little about its histories. This article discusses the emerging field of internet histories, which as yet has surprisingly few connections with the relatively well-established enterprise of media histories. We review the development of the interne…
The Commonwealth of Television: EMI's struggle for a new medium
As the Second World War closed, Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) thought it had a choice. Formed in the Depression by merging two great London-based record companies, the British music and consumer electronics giant had watched the music business collapse while radio broadcasting soared. A late and reluctant entrant into radio manufacturing, it capitalised on the introduction of electronics into musical recording in the 1920s to achieve tech…
States and start-ups: Public competitors in Australian communications
This article explores three state-owned or supported communications enterprises: the Pacific Cable, opened in 1902; Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA), which launched international wireless telegraphy services in 1927; and AUSSAT, a domestic satellite system established in 1985. All were partnerships formed to build and operate new communications infrastructure in competition with an incumbent. Of each, the article asks: what problem needed t…
The venturesome economy: How innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world
Would the Real Freeview Please Stand Up
Freeview is the survival strategy for free-to-view TV in the digital age in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. It is mix of marketing, services and technology, and of defensive and offensive elements. The mix is different in different places: In the UK, where the concept was launched in 2002, digital terrestrial television (DTT) became Freeview, now the most popular form of digital TV. Freeview represented a fresh strategy to relaunch…
Bothering about Broadband: Review Essay
Review essay of the books 'Wrong number: resolving Australia's telecommunications impasse', by Henry Ergas, published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008; 'Wired brown land? Telstra's battle for broadband', by Paul Fletcher, published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009; and 'Wireless broadband: conflict and convergence', by Vern Fotheringham and Chetan Sharma, published by IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Piscataway NJ and Hoboken HJ, 2008
Another Kind of Empire: The Voice of Australia, 1931-1939
This article examines this alternate model of overseas broadcasting and its interaction with the BBC's. The service from the bottom of the world ultimately failed, but it reveals a largely forgotten feature of early broadcasting in Australia and New Zealand, a global ambition. It also confirms a familiar feature, the commercialism that owes more to American than British broadcasting at the time. It is a case study of Dominion nationalism -- asser…
Australia's Broadband: How Big is the Problem
Four conclusions are drawn from the most recent data about broadband takeup in Australia and overseas. First, performance shouldn't be judged against a single criterion or against the same criteria over time. Second, on the simplest measure of fixed broadband takeup, Australia has caught up considerably after a slow start to a position now above the OECD average, but is still well behind top-ranked countries. Third, on other factors such as the a…
Making Media Policy: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Seeking papers for the media stream at the conference and articles for this issue of Media International Australia, our aim was to examine contemporary media policy issues that benefited from some kind of historical analysis. Rather than starting with history, confident that it served up powerful and useful lessons, the idea was to begin with the current policy challenges and see whether history helped. Unsurprisingly, most authors found it did -…
A 50/50 Proposition: Public-Private Partnerships in Australian Communications
The Australian government's proposed public-private broadband partnership is the latest dramatisation of the constantly shifting roles of the private and public sectors in communications. Over the last century and a half, the sector has been a steady source of new institutional models around the world. This article examines the experience of Australia's main wireless company, AWA, as a private-public partnership for nearly 30 years. Reconstructed…
The Digital Action Plan
This article discusses the Australian government's late 2006 'Digital Action Plan', which details policy changes for the transition to digital television. It suggests that the plan does open up greater possibilities for new services, and so encourages consumers to purchase digital receivers; however, it also suggests that Australia's approach is characterised by a desire to follow international trends rather than any inventive use of the technolo…
Talking over Water: History, Wireless and the Telephone
For a third of the twentieth century, the only way Antipodeans could talk with people on the other side of the world was by wireless. The submarine cables that traversed the oceans from the 1860s carried messages in Morse code, 'telegraphy', but not voice. From 30 April 1930, the wireless telephone service made it possible to conduct a conversation in real time between England and Australia. This article explores the old era of international wire…
Not Unreasonably Denied: Australian Content after Ausfta
The text of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), released in early March 2004, makes more concessions than many in Australia's audiovisual and cultural industries might have hoped, but less than they feared. Its precise impact will depend on how 'new media' replaces, subsumes or supplements 'old media', and how quickly. AUSFTA institutionalises much lower aspirations about the level of Australian content in emerging media sy…
Australian Telecommunications: Liberalising, Privatising, Reregulating
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, one of the prerequisites for a country's membership of the International Telecommunications Union was that its telecommunications services were provided by a public monopoly. The United States, with its private industry and---particularly following the expiry of the Bell System patents---its open competition, could participate only as an observer
Another Kind of Empire: The Voice of Australia, 1931-1939
This article examines this alternate model of overseas broadcasting and its interaction with the BBC's. The service from the bottom of the world ultimately failed, but it reveals a largely forgotten feature of early broadcasting in Australia and New Zealand, a global ambition. It also confirms a familiar feature, the commercialism that owes more to American than British broadcasting at the time. It is a case study of Dominion nationalism -- asser…
States and start-ups: Public competitors in Australian communications
This article explores three state-owned or supported communications enterprises: the Pacific Cable, opened in 1902; Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA), which launched international wireless telegraphy services in 1927; and AUSSAT, a domestic satellite system established in 1985. All were partnerships formed to build and operate new communications infrastructure in competition with an incumbent. Of each, the article asks: what problem needed t…
Talking over Water: History, Wireless and the Telephone
For a third of the twentieth century, the only way Antipodeans could talk with people on the other side of the world was by wireless. The submarine cables that traversed the oceans from the 1860s carried messages in Morse code, 'telegraphy', but not voice. From 30 April 1930, the wireless telephone service made it possible to conduct a conversation in real time between England and Australia. This article explores the old era of international wire…
Not Unreasonably Denied: Australian Content after Ausfta
The text of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), released in early March 2004, makes more concessions than many in Australia's audiovisual and cultural industries might have hoped, but less than they feared. Its precise impact will depend on how 'new media' replaces, subsumes or supplements 'old media', and how quickly. AUSFTA institutionalises much lower aspirations about the level of Australian content in emerging media sy…
Australian Telecommunications: Liberalising, Privatising, Reregulating
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, one of the prerequisites for a country's membership of the International Telecommunications Union was that its telecommunications services were provided by a public monopoly. The United States, with its private industry and---particularly following the expiry of the Bell System patents---its open competition, could participate only as an observer
Australian Telecommunications: Liberalising, Privatising, Reregulating
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, one of the prerequisites for a country's membership of the International Telecommunications Union was that its telecommunications services were provided by a public monopoly. The United States, with its private industry and---particularly following the expiry of the Bell System patents---its open competition, could participate only as an observer
Not Unreasonably Denied: Australian Content after Ausfta
The text of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), released in early March 2004, makes more concessions than many in Australia's audiovisual and cultural industries might have hoped, but less than they feared. Its precise impact will depend on how 'new media' replaces, subsumes or supplements 'old media', and how quickly. AUSFTA institutionalises much lower aspirations about the level of Australian content in emerging media sy…
The Digital Action Plan
This article discusses the Australian government's late 2006 'Digital Action Plan', which details policy changes for the transition to digital television. It suggests that the plan does open up greater possibilities for new services, and so encourages consumers to purchase digital receivers; however, it also suggests that Australia's approach is characterised by a desire to follow international trends rather than any inventive use of the technolo…
Talking over Water: History, Wireless and the Telephone
For a third of the twentieth century, the only way Antipodeans could talk with people on the other side of the world was by wireless. The submarine cables that traversed the oceans from the 1860s carried messages in Morse code, 'telegraphy', but not voice. From 30 April 1930, the wireless telephone service made it possible to conduct a conversation in real time between England and Australia. This article explores the old era of international wire…
Australia's Broadband: How Big is the Problem
Four conclusions are drawn from the most recent data about broadband takeup in Australia and overseas. First, performance shouldn't be judged against a single criterion or against the same criteria over time. Second, on the simplest measure of fixed broadband takeup, Australia has caught up considerably after a slow start to a position now above the OECD average, but is still well behind top-ranked countries. Third, on other factors such as the a…
Making Media Policy: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Seeking papers for the media stream at the conference and articles for this issue of Media International Australia, our aim was to examine contemporary media policy issues that benefited from some kind of historical analysis. Rather than starting with history, confident that it served up powerful and useful lessons, the idea was to begin with the current policy challenges and see whether history helped. Unsurprisingly, most authors found it did -…
A 50/50 Proposition: Public-Private Partnerships in Australian Communications
The Australian government's proposed public-private broadband partnership is the latest dramatisation of the constantly shifting roles of the private and public sectors in communications. Over the last century and a half, the sector has been a steady source of new institutional models around the world. This article examines the experience of Australia's main wireless company, AWA, as a private-public partnership for nearly 30 years. Reconstructed…
Bothering about Broadband: Review Essay
Review essay of the books 'Wrong number: resolving Australia's telecommunications impasse', by Henry Ergas, published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008; 'Wired brown land? Telstra's battle for broadband', by Paul Fletcher, published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009; and 'Wireless broadband: conflict and convergence', by Vern Fotheringham and Chetan Sharma, published by IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Piscataway NJ and Hoboken HJ, 2008
Another Kind of Empire: The Voice of Australia, 1931-1939
This article examines this alternate model of overseas broadcasting and its interaction with the BBC's. The service from the bottom of the world ultimately failed, but it reveals a largely forgotten feature of early broadcasting in Australia and New Zealand, a global ambition. It also confirms a familiar feature, the commercialism that owes more to American than British broadcasting at the time. It is a case study of Dominion nationalism -- asser…
The venturesome economy: How innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world
Would the Real Freeview Please Stand Up
Freeview is the survival strategy for free-to-view TV in the digital age in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. It is mix of marketing, services and technology, and of defensive and offensive elements. The mix is different in different places: In the UK, where the concept was launched in 2002, digital terrestrial television (DTT) became Freeview, now the most popular form of digital TV. Freeview represented a fresh strategy to relaunch…
The Commonwealth of Television: EMI's struggle for a new medium
As the Second World War closed, Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) thought it had a choice. Formed in the Depression by merging two great London-based record companies, the British music and consumer electronics giant had watched the music business collapse while radio broadcasting soared. A late and reluctant entrant into radio manufacturing, it capitalised on the introduction of electronics into musical recording in the 1920s to achieve tech…
States and start-ups: Public competitors in Australian communications
This article explores three state-owned or supported communications enterprises: the Pacific Cable, opened in 1902; Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA), which launched international wireless telegraphy services in 1927; and AUSSAT, a domestic satellite system established in 1985. All were partnerships formed to build and operate new communications infrastructure in competition with an incumbent. Of each, the article asks: what problem needed t…
Australian Internet Histories: It's Time
Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the internet has grown steadily, metamorphosised in many surprising ways, and now is central to Australian society and media. As a relatively new medium, we still know little about its histories. This article discusses the emerging field of internet histories, which as yet has surprisingly few connections with the relatively well-established enterprise of media histories. We review the development of the interne…
Rating the audience: The business of media
Review of the book 'Rating the audience: the business of media', by Mark Balnaves and Tom O'Regan with Ben Goldsmith, published by Bloomsbury, London, 2011
Owning and renting: Speculations about the past, present and future acquisition of audiovisual content by consumers
The market for digital audiovisual content in Australia, so far, has not exhibited a clearly dominant trend towards owning or renting. This article analyses the historical reasons that individuals have chosen to own audiovisual content rather than rent it; sets out evidence of recent trends in the ownership and renting of audiovisual and music content and books in Australia and overseas; and concludes with some speculation about the factors that …
Born Global, Made Local: Multinational Enterprise and A ustralia's Early Wireless Industry
This article analyses the evolution of multinational enterprise through a case study of the Australasian wireless company, AWA , in the first half of the twentieth century. Ownership, location, and internalisation advantages explain aspects of the industry's rapid internationalisation, but other factors, including restrictive domestic legislation and oligopolistic competition, are also important. The imperialism of the era encouraged globalisatio…
Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives
Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives." Australian Historical Studies, 52(4), pp. 658–659
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