Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy publishes new scholarly and applied research on the media, telecommunications, and the cultural industries, and the policy regimes within which they operate.

Broadly inclusive and interdisciplinary, the journal welcomes the writing of history, theory and analysis, commentary and debate. While its primary focus is Australia, the journal also aims to provide an international perspective.

MIA was founded by Professor Henry Mayer in 1976.

ISSN: 1329-878X

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Current issue

Ecomedia
Issue No 127 (May 2008)
Theme Editors: Kitty van Vuuren and Libby Lester

This issue features a themed section on ‘Ecomedia’ which sets out the importance of this special issue in rejoining and taking forward research upon the relationships between the ecology, defining contentions of our time and media. The eight papers colelcted here offer a rich international engagement with media and environment that elucidates the key issues at stake — as well as what the important questions are, and what the directions for future inquiry and research might be.

Also in this issue, we are very pleased to present a dedicated comment section that tackles the issue of broadband policy—one of the top priorities of the new government, and a matter much debated around the world. MIA board member Jock Given has gathered four experts on broadband, giving us important analyses and provocations to an undertaking which, surprisingly, has not been given the considered attention or public discussion it deserves. This is especially apparent in a period when the national broadband network is now out to tender—but without key conditions of it adequately discussed. We are pleased to be able to make these policy comments freely available for download.

News

27 May 2008: Issue 127 now available

23 May 2008: Policy Briefs for Issue 127 available for free download

5 March 2008: Call for Papers: MIA 131, Histories of Australian Media Reception

3 March 2008: Issue 126 now available

3 December 2007: Issue 125 now available

11 September 2007: Issue 124 now available