Watch This Space: The Future of Australian Journalism

Milissa Deitz

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Abstract

Facing shrinking readerships, redundancies and declining advertising revenue, the imminent demise of traditional print media and 'quality' journalism is being prophesied. Are we losing a vital public sphere for interrogating those in power or is a moribund media status quo getting a long overdue shake up? Milissa Deitz argues that far from ringing the death knell , the internet is in fact reinvigorating news and journalism. More democratic through participation, more immediately responsive to rapidly changing events, we increasingly go online for our news. A mediaspace composed of dedicated online journals, blogs, social networking and mobile telephony, is returning journalism to its radical and democratic roots, recreating the feisty, informed public domain extinguished over the twentieth century by concentration of media ownership in Australia.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationPort Melbourne, Vic.
PublisherCambridge University Press
Number of pages145
ISBN (Print)9780521144285
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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