3CMedia
Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication
ISSN 1832-6161
Issue 1 (February) 2005
Contributors
Heather Anderson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University with a Bachelor of Communications and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1). She has been involved in community radio since 1991 focusing mainly on alternative news and current affairs and community radio as activism.
Dr Peter Collingwood lectures in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne.
Saba El-Ghul has worked overseas as a radio broadcaster and journalist, and as an administrator, broadcaster and trainer in community radio in Australia. She has completed her first MA on community radio analysis and her second MA thesis on community media policy. She is currently a lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. The author acknowledges and thanks all the community media practitioners and researchers who have contributed to the study which this article draws upon.
Dr Jacqui Ewart lectures in Journalism & Media Studies at Griffith University.
Dr Susan Forde lectures in Journalism & Media Studies at Griffith University.
Kerrie Foxwell is a Phd candidate at Griffith University and the senior research assistant on the ARC-funded qualitative assessment of community broadcasting audiences.
Peter Marcato recently graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Media Studies with Honours. His thesis was on the history of commercial FM radio in Australia. Peter has been working with the Community Radio Station Plenty Valley FM for 8 years and is the current president. In 2005 Peter will be studying the commercial radio course at Swinburne University this year and has ambitions to continue research work in both the community and commercial broadcasting sectors.
Christine Morris is a Phd candidate at Griffith University and indigenous researcher on the ARC-funded qualitative assessment of community broadcasting audiences.
Associate Professor Michael Meadows lectures in Journalism & Media Studies at Griffith University.
Joanna McCarthy is the Membership & Development Manager at the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. She is the former President of SYN FM (Student Youth Network) in Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Melbourne University.
Tayna Notley is the Research Associate for the Youth Internet Radio Network Project, Queensland University of Technology. Tanya has four years experience working in the field of Development Communications in Sri Lanka, including two years coordinating activities for a UNESCO Internet-Radio pilot project at a rural Community Radio Station. Prior to this Tanya was involved in youth media and community radio in Australia. She is employed as the Research Associate for the Youth Internet Radio Network and is undertaking her PhD candidature at Queensland University of Technology, looking at issues of young people and new media in the context of globalisation.
Dr Christina Spurgeon lectures in Media and Communication at QUT's Creative Industries Faculty. Chris has published widely on various aspects of Australian media and communications policy and supports media diversity and the development of critical 'media on media', old and new. She is an Editorial board member of Media International Australia and Editor of 3CMedia and a former community broadcaster. Chris is also a Public Member and Deputy Chair of the Telephone Information Services Standards Council (TISSC), an industry self-regulatory agency which maintains and administers the premium rate services code of conduct. Current research interests also extend to advertising in post-WTO China; and the impact of new media and the productive citizen-consumer on advertising industry structures, practices and futures.
Dr Jo Tacchi is a social anthropologist specialising in ethnographic research on old and new media technologies. She is a Senior Research Fellow in CIRAC. Over the past two and a half years Jo has been working with UNESCO to develop a research and project development methodology for community multimedia centres in South Asia. The methodology is called ethnographic action research. Jo is currently working with colleagues from Adelaide University, London School of Economics and University College London on a UK Government funded four country comparative ethnography of emerging technologies and poor communities
Dr Bevin Yeatman teaches in the Department of Screen & Media Studies at the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand and Team Leader for BigTV.