ISSN: 1329-878X

Forthcoming Issues in 2008

Calls for papers

General Articles

In addition to its quarterly themed sections, each issue of MIA also contains several peer-reviewed general articles, dealing with issues relevant to the journal’s constituency.

The journal’s editor, Gerard Goggin, is now calling for general articles on a diverse range of areas, including:

• cultural and media policy
• media industries
• internet, online gaming and online media
• cultural and creative industries
• the media and society
• Indigenous media and arts issues
• television, radio and film
• new media and new technology
• media regulation
• cultural institutions and education
• globalisation and networks

Please contact Gerard Goggin at:

G.Goggin@unsw.edu.au

or email submissions to:

Susan Jarvis, Production Editor, Media International Australia, at:

s.jarvis@griffith.edu.au

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Making Media Policy: Looking Forward, Looking Back

Theme Editor: Jock Given

Abstracts (500 words) by: 25 February 2008
Full papers due: 26 May 2008

This issue of Media International Australia will examine contemporary media policy questions by analysing historical incidents and issues. The aim is to help understand what is new and what is familiar about current and likely future policy challenges, and how emerging possibilities might be shaped by past decisions. Ideally, articles will cover different historical eras. The idea follows the theme of the First Annual Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference being held at ANU in Canberra in December 2007: ‘Governing by Looking Back: How History Matters in Society, Politics and Government’. The conference is being organised by the Research School of Social Sciences:

http://rsss.anu.edu. au/themes/historycall.pdf

A media stream has been organised for this conference. The papers are expected to provide the core of the MIA issue. Those already accepted, and the historical periods they will explore, include:

• National broadcasting: inventing and reinventing the SBS (1980s)
• Investment in communications networks (1990s)
• Public–private partnerships in communications (1920s–1930s)
• Cellular mobile communications: choosing technologies and market structures (1990s)
• Remote Indigenous broadcasting: decentralising media production (1980s)
• Domestic television technologies (1970s)
• Copyright and new media (1960s)
• Community media (1970s)

Contributions are now invited for this stream of the conference and/or for the November 2008 issue of MIA. We welcome contributions that use historical analysis to inform debates about any contemporary media policy questions.

Please send abstracts of up to 500 words to Jock Given at jgiven@swin.edu.au by 31 August 2007 if you wish to be considered for the December conference and the MIA issue, or 25 February 2008 if you wish to be considered for the MIA issue only. If selected for the MIA issue, full papers will be due by 26 May 2008.

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