Edited by the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

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The life of SYN FM is a story of digital literacy – a new literacy involving the ability to write, not just read, the forms and languages of digital media content

You've heard of 'fair trade' coffee

Using SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study this paper employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media

Using SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study this paper employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media

This online survey of 351 media industry employees from across all media sectors provides a snapshot of educational qualifications, voluntary/work experience history and other factors which assisted media industry employees to
make the transition to paid employment

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16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.