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- Title
- The content makers : understanding the media in Australia
- Author(s)
- Simons, Margaret
- Abstract
- Everything is changing in media -- ownership, technology and the way journalists work. It may well be that we are living through a change equivalent to that brought about by the printing press six centuries ago. In 'The content makers', Margaret Simons explains the changes taking place in the Australian media. She analyses audiences, our major media organisations, the role of government -- and the implications of all of these for our society and our democracy. Her examination leads her to the conclusion that the challenges facing the content providers in the modern world are part of a broader striving, a very old struggle -- we might call it the search for meaning. The big media businesses may or may not survive into the future, but content certainly will, because we need it, and have always needed it.
- Publication type
- Book
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Publication year
- 2007
- Keyword(s)
- Audiences; Australia; Barton, Edmund, 1849-1920; Broadcasting; Change; Coonan, Helen, 1947-; Economy; Ethics; Journalism; Mass media; Media studies; News; Objectivity; Politics; Power; Print media; Public opinion; Publishing; Technology; Telecommunications
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 9780143007852
- Publisher URL
- http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9780143007852
- Copyright
- Text copyright © Margaret Simons 2007.
