[csaa-forum] Publishing outside the academy

[Andrea Baker]

I think alot of us have wide ranging, multi facet roles as lecturers,
researchers and producers of media content. I'm not into becoming a
'celebrity radio academic', just wanting 'research- brownie pionts' for
the production of media content in all its forms. This is an old, and
ongoing debate within the academy. Check out John Herbert's article in
the December's edition of the Australian Journalism Review (AJR 2003),
about what is happening in the UK.... and this case will become clearer.

bye for now


Vincent O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a foot in each camp, the academic's and the radio broadcaster's .
> 
> I'm the part-time Exec. Producer of 'Arts Alive', an arts and culture current affairs program that's hear on about
> fifty-five community and Indigenous stations each week.  And yes, we try to bring academic rigor to our reporting, but
> we don't always take ourselves toooooo seriously.  It takes a lot of time each week and has slowed down the PhD
> somewhat.
> 
> I've also been a regular contributor to ABC regional radio, but such gigs tend to be the gift of the program's producer
> or presenter.
> 
> I got my break into radio on Robyn Williams' 'Ocham's Razor', on ABC Radio National Sunday @ 8.45am, and then on
> 'Careering Arts' on 3CR.
> 
> Given the concentration of ownership in the media over the past twenty years and the cash strangulation of the ABC,
> community and Indigenous radio is the one medium where a range of voices may still be heard and dissenting opinions
> still valued, and ther are more than 150 such stations around.
> 
> It doesn't count as part of the research quantum but it is still publication (and publicity).  The technical resources
> are modest but you do need a 'face for radio' and an ear for audio.
> 
> Vincent O'Donnell MA
> School of Applied Communication, RMIT
> GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Vic., 3001
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