"The word 'blog' doesn't really give one much of an idea about the content or nature of a given online site. In fact, author and freelance journalist, Margaret Simons, describes the term as 'manifestly inadequate', because it offers so little differentiation. She says there's now an urgent need for a new vocabulary for internet-based publications...

Three noted thinkers on the changing nature of media and its consumers: MIT's Henry Jenkins, Mark Deuze from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Australia's John Hartley, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.

Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah discusses visibility in the media and the preconceptions and stereotyping that tag some people as less than desirable and see others ignored altogether.

A look at the way in which the Australian advertising industry is adapting to the challenges of the modern age of communication.

The Media Report looks at the health and structure of children's television in Australia... and they also find out whether a Coalition promise to fund a new ABC children's channel will be taken up by the new government.