The move to develop new visualisation tools for online activities is a response to the complex systems of our expanding, informationalised world and the realisation that graphical representation improves our ability to navigate and make sense of it. But when such tools are combined with social networking and gaming principles, the impact is multiplied, the...

The ways of knowing modern audiences, broadcast ratings, is now big billion dollar business, with Google in alliance with Nielsen, one of the world's leading media researchers, to literally auction audiences off to the highest bidder. Ironically, 'the black box' of survey and sampling methodology that delivers audiences remains a mystery to most, just as...

Submissions are invited on potential improvements to audio description and captioning levels in Australia for free-to-air and subscription television, DVDs, films in cinemas and audio-visual content on the internet.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released a discussion paper proposing simplified licensing procedures that would apply to remote Indigenous broadcasting services known as 'RIBS radio'. ‘The ACMA identified an opportunity to relieve providers of remote Indigenous broadcasting services of a significant administrative burden. These broadcasters typically serve small and isolated communities in locations...

Australian children will continue to be catered for on commercial television via quotas for children's (C) and preschool children's (P) programs under these new standards. The standards will also make it possible for broadcasters to create viewing destinations for children through the introduction of block programming arrangements. This gives licensees the option of broadcasting all...