Editorial
Hart Cohen
Western Sydney University
Welcome to the 2024 GMJ/AU postgraduate edition. Since the establishment of this journal, we have made a habit of publishing our postgraduate student submissions from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts annual Interventions and Intersections Postgraduate Conference, as we sense that the publication of these research presentations is an important stage in the postgraduate journey. For those pursuing a postgraduate degree, undertaking a conference presentation is no doubt a huge challenge; proceeding towards and realising the publication of one's work is an indispensable experience to gain for future work in academia. Our postgrad conference grows in size, diversity and intellectual acuity with high levels of original research in all knowledge modalities that are found in the School. 2023 was the 15th anniversary (2008-2023) of the founding of Interventions and Intersections. With co-founder Dr Rachel Morley, we were invited to recall our early days of the conference and the then postgraduate students and their research interests. In some ways it feels like it has been a long journey to this record of the 2023 conference, but one that we hope will continue for some time to come....more
Guest Editorial
Simon Burrows
Western Sydney University
Myra Gurney
Western Sydney University
This issue of Global Media Journal – Australian Edition celebrates once again the richness and depth of postgraduate student research in Western Sydney University’s School of Humanities and Communication Arts (SoHCA). The articles presented here all began life as conference papers in November 2023 at the School’s annual postgraduate student conference, Interventions and Intersections: Traversing the Unknown. The 2023 conference, the 15th in the series, built on a long tradition of collaborative cutting-edge interdisciplinary research strength within the School, whilst also showcasing disciplinary excellence. The 2023 conference was also the biggest to date, attracting some 42 student papers across 15 panels, and is a tribute to the strength and diversity of research among the current research cohort. Reviewing the program, the editors had no hesitation in offering this journal as a publishing venue for our student presenters, the fifth time we have done so. Those...more
Scope
The Australian edition of Global Media Journal invites the submission of essays and research reports that focus on any aspects in the field of Communication, Media and Journalism. We are particularly interested in articles that explore some of the following themes:
- Media and Democracy
- Children and Media
- Grassroots and alternative media
- Media Law and Ethics
- Civic Journalism
- Peace Communication
- Ethnicity and the media
- Political economy of communication
- Film and Media
- Media Audiences
- Media Policies
- Media, Citizenship and Democracy
- Communication and Cultures in Conflict
- Theories of Communication
- Media and Globalisation
Australian Media Monitor
Tim Dwyer
The News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) problem
The Albanese Government is grappling with formulating a viable response to the policy failure of the NMBC, and therefore a sustainable alternative funding model for public interest journalism. Meta had announced earlier in the year that if would not renew their deals with Australian news publishers. Google, however, has been renewing deals including under their so-called Global News Initiative framework, in a very targeted manner. The total value of the deals struck by Meta and Google were claimed to be of the order of $600 million over a 3-year period. Yet the actual amount is unknown because there was no reporting mechanism in the law that set up the Code. As anticipated by many, the NMBC can be interpreted as a welcome but temporary revenue boost exercise for mainly the major Australian news publishers....moreDisclaimer
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