A short wave to globalism

This article details the emergence of Radio Australia Online as a subsite of ABC Online in the late 1990s. In doing so it examines the altered understandings of ‘national’, ‘international’ and ‘global’ accompanying the emergence of World Wide Web services, and teases out the relationships between rhetoric surrounding Public Service Broadcasting, and rhetoric surrounding the Internet. It highlights the significance of molecular, local forces (such as the working circumstances of an individual) to the implementation of a global service, and it discusses ways that relations between ‘old’ and ‘new’ media are implicated in particular governing rationales both within the ABC and in the broader media economy. The Internet idea – that the Internet would globalise and democratise, that the Internet was intrinsically dynamic and interactive – is challenged in this instance. The public service broadcasting idea – that it is staid, monolithic and confined to outdated national technologies – is also challenged at the point where the Internet and public service broadcasting intersect

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