Re-Visiting Tom O’Regan’s Australian Television Culture: Why Media Ownership, Regulation and Policy Still Matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 180 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Anna Potter
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Almost 30 years after its publication, Tom O’Regan’s innovative and ambitious, multi-layered analysis of Australian television culture remains an important text for contemporary scholars of television studies, cultural and communications studies, and media industries. In this article, I re-visit the multiple lessons of value that we can take from Australian Television Culture and its distinctive analytical frameworks. Two of the book’s key areas of focus, media ownership structures, and media policy and regulation are explored further, including in work Tom and I would go on to do together.

Think Global, Act Global: Corporate Content Streaming and Australian Media Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Murray
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Ownership Reform ◽  
Media Corporations

Australia's media policy agenda has recently been dominated by debate over two key issues: media ownership reform, and the local content provisions of the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement. Challenging the tendency to analyse these issues separately, the article considers them as interlinked indicators of fundamental shifts occurring in the digital media environment. Converged media corporations increasingly seek to achieve economies of scale through ‘content streaming’: multi-purposing proprietary content across numerous digitally enabled platforms. This has resulted in rivalries for control of delivery technologies (as witnessed in media ownership debates) as well as over market access for corporate content (in the case of local content debates). The article contextualises Australia's contemporary media policy flashpoints within international developments and longer-term industry strategising. It further questions the power of media policy as it is currently conceived to deal adequately with the challenges raised by a converging digital media marketplace.

scholarly journals Problems of media ownership in Serbia

2016 ◽  
pp. 475-488
Author(s):  
Irina Milutinovic
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Media System ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
New Millennium

Different implications of media ownership on democratic capacity of Serbian society in the beginning of the new millennium are analyzed in the paper. The frame of the research is democratic and market model of media policy which was established after political changes in Serbia in 2000. The aim of the paper is to identify the main problems of media ownership in Serbia in the process of adjustment to the European media policy. In order to understand the genesis of marked problems, they are observed in the context of current trends on wider - global - media market. It can be concluded that democratic and market model of media system does not guarantee the conditions for democratic public discussion and satisfaction of public interest.

scholarly journals Global Media Industries and Media Policy

Making Media ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Terry Flew ◽  
Nicolas Suzor
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Global Media

scholarly journals Global Media Industries and Media Policy

Making Media ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Terry Flew ◽  
Nicolas Suzor
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Global Media

What Roseanne Barr Meant to Media Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 596-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The Media

After a series of vile tweets, in 2018 comedienne Roseanne Barr was summarily dismissed from her eponymous sitcom Roseanne, a self-styled reboot of the original U.S. television show (running from 1988 to 1997). While Barr’s firing may seem like a rarified event, my concern is with the vexed position of the unruly comedienne in a paradoxical cultural moment in which feminist activism has impacted the media industries, yet misogyny and xenophobia are blatantly incarnated in U.S. political leadership. Barr’s brand of unapologetic comedy served as a foundational heuristic for the development of feminist television studies, yet her politics have been increasingly revealed as abhorrent. This article examines this puzzling disconnect between progressive political gains around gender, class, body size, and sexuality in the realm of media personalities, products, and theories, and the seemingly intractable position of regressive racism, a conflation that Barr’s brand of toxic provocation both articulates and underscores.

The End of the Press Subsidies ‘Experiment’ in Sweden?

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Susan Forde
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Media Concentration ◽  
The Impact

Debates about media ownership concentration have continued in Australia over the past half-century, and particularly in the last decade since Murdoch's News Ltd took over the Herald and Weekly Times group of newspapers in 1986–87. At the time, and at the subsequent 1991 Lee print media inquiry, the press subsidies system operating in Sweden received some attention from researchers and policy-makers alike as a possible solution to further increases in media ownership concentration in Australia. In light of recent inquiries into media ownership in Australia, particularly the Productivity Commission, it is now timely to consider Sweden's approach to media policy in the late 1990s. In particular, this paper will focus on the 1999 report by the Media Concentration Group in Sweden, which examined issues such as the future of print and broadcast legislation, and the impact of convergence on media policy. As Sweden — and indeed the Scandinavian region — has long held one of the most diverse media ownership environments in the Western world, their future policy directions may provide some options for Australian media policy researchers and policy-makers.

scholarly journals HOW ARE PUBLIC SPHERES TRANSNATIONAL? COMPARING NEWS AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS DURING THE MADRID CLIMATE TALKS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy James Neff ◽  
Dariusz Jemielniak
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twitter Users

In this study, we explore two parallel but related networks of discourse that arose during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations of 2019 in Madrid: one produced by news media coverage of the talks; the other by Twitter users who shared news content about the talks. As these networks disseminated information about the UNFCCC’s 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25), we see them as key channels of communication for a potentially transnational public sphere of dialogue and dissent, even if the existence or efficacy of such a transnational sphere is a matter of great debate (Fraser, 2007). Our aim is to compare the internal (within network) and external (across networks) homogeneity and homogeneity of these two networks in terms of structure (e.g., language, geographic groups, etc.), dominant topics, and sentiments. We find that a potential for the emergence of transnational public spheres lies in contradictory currents of homogeneity and heterogeneity in transnational networks related to 1) the social capital of certain actors; 2) institutional infrastructures such as U.N. processes; 3) media ownership structures; 4) different cultural practices.

Monopoly Control over Digital Infrastructures

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-135
Author(s):  
Victor Pickard
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Media System ◽  
Digital Divides

Chapter 4 brings into focus various structural threats to journalism, including monopoly control over media infrastructures, the loss of public interest protections, digital divides, and the “Facebook problem.” It examines how monopolies—from platforms to traditional conglomerates and broadband cartels—threaten the entire news media system. The chapter goes on to provide an overview of why media policy matters for journalism and how different ownership structures affect media content. It then concludes with an in-depth discussion of Facebook’s relationship to journalism and the different schools of thought on how we should rein in monopolies.

scholarly journals Convergence and Australian Content: The Importance of Access

2012 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Ben Goldsmith ◽  
Stuart Cunningham ◽  
Julian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Content Distribution ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Content Standards ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
And Control

In the light of new and complex challenges to media policy and regulation, the Australian government commissioned the Convergence Review in late 2010 to assess the continuing applicability and utility of the principles and objectives that have shaped the policy framework to this point. It proposed a range of options for policy change and identified three enduring priorities for continued media regulation: media ownership and control; content standards; and Australian content production and distribution. The purpose of this article is to highlight an area where we feel there are opportunities for further discussion and research: the question of how the accessibility and visibility of Australian and local content may be assured in the future media policy framework via a combination of regulation and incentives to encourage innovation in content distribution.

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