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Blogging
No full textWeblogs, or blogs, constitute a form and genre of online publishing that emerged in the\ud
mid-1990s as a logical consequence of the confluence of personal and professional home pages and\ud
new web publishing technologies. To overcome technological limitations, where news updates had to\ud
be manually inserted by editing the underlying HTML code, the early content-management systems in\ud
the second half of the 1990s built on server-side database technology to dynamically generate web\ud
pages; this enabled more convenient and more frequent content updates. Weblogs utilised such\ud
technologies to provide an up-to-date news feed, presenting individual news items in reverse\ud
chronological order. Most blogging platforms provide commenting functions that enable readers to\ud
respond to and discuss individual blog posts..
Australasian post
No full textHistory of the general-interest magazine, Australasian Post, also known as Aussie Post
Australian content
No full textThere has long been widespread community, political and industry agreement over the important place of Australian content in the media mix, but debate continues over what counts as such in different media, how that content is defined, how much there should be, whether particular genres should be privileged, who should finance production, and how all of these things should be regulated
Magazines and periodicals
No full text[Extract] The long list of all Australian magazines and periodicals published since the early 19th cen-tury includes a wide array of forms that have served readers from various walks of life. These range from mass-market magazines designed to inform and entertain a large audience to more serious reviews and avant-garde magazines that have addressed small artistic, religious and intellectual communities
Policy, regulation and ownership
No full textThis chapter on policy, regulation and ownership introduces students to the ‘policy perspective’ in media and communication studies, briefly outlining political economy, cultural policy studies, and right-of-centre approaches to policy analysis and advocacy. It then considers some basic principles operating in Australian media policy and regulation, covering print, broadcasting, arts and film and online. These include direct regulation, self-regulation, co-regulation and deregulation as well as the distinction between government action directed at ‘input’ (subsidisation of production) or ‘output’ (regulation to encourage and manage distribution and exhibition) activity. Having laid out structural principles of Australian media and communications policy and regulation, the chapter then looks at how they work in practice by selecting two major policy areas which have continued to be major foci during both Coalition and Labor governments in the last decade. These enduringly contentious issues are media ownership, central to the information side of the media, and Australian content, central to the entertainment side
Misinformation
No full textMisinformation can harm democratic processes, social cohesion and public health outcomes. In Australia, misinformation is circulating rapidly and widely through online platforms, and citizens are increasingly concerned about it. Exposure to misinformation is directly correlated with the growing use of social media platforms and is likely to increase. However, to date, there are only a few initiatives by the media industry and government to assist citizens in combatting the spread and impact of misinformation. Citizens are largely left to their own devices to deal with the overabundant information, but studies have found that Australians have low confidence in their media literacy skills
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