[csaa-forum] 'Listening In' research report and resources on community media and the politics of listening now available online

[Tanja Dreher]

Dear colleagues


The public outcomes of the 'Listening In' project are now available via the project website: https://www.listeninginproject.org/


The Listening In final report provides a snapshot of sovereign and self-determined voice in community media, with a focus on First Nations voices, refugee and asylum seeker voices, women of colour, migrant diaspora communities, and intersectional voices. It presents results of our research on ‘institutional listening’ among policymakers and mainstream journalists. It discusses key challenges to the core values and key functions of community broadcasting in the context of digital disruption, with particular attention to competition for value from social media, and the conflicting values of corporate digital platforms.


Key findings include:

  *   A diverse and dynamic First Nations media sector
  *   Contained / constrained racialised voices
  *   Limited institutional listening
  *   Social media competition and conflicting values
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Resources include:

  *   A directory of select sovereign and self-determined voice in community media
  *   A directory of select ‘media on media’

Future directions include:

  *   Further research is required to understand the persistence of white dominance in a community media sector that is celebrated for diversity.
  *   Further research is needed to examine the implications of platforms as infrastructures and ideologies within the media field, rather than simply as tools that can be used in service of community media values

Links to resources (with links embedded):

  *   Listening In - full report<https://www.listeninginproject.org/s/Project-Report-Listening-In_FINAL_211210.pdf>
  *   Listening In website<https://www.listeninginproject.org/>
  *   Listening Post - Media on media<https://www.listeninginproject.org/media-on-media>
  *   Listening Post - Sovereign and self-determined voice in community media<https://www.listeninginproject.org/listening-post>
  *   ‘For an Indigenous perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick guide to First Nations media platforms’<https://theconversation.com/for-an-indigenous-perspective-on-australia-day-heres-a-quick-guide-to-first-nations-media-platforms-174704> (with Professor Bronwyn Carlson)

Links to resources (separate URLs):

  *   Direct link to report: https://www.listeninginproject.org/s/Project-Report-Listening-In_FINAL_211210.pdf
  *   Website link: https://www.listeninginproject.org/
  *   Listening Post - Media on media: https://www.listeninginproject.org/media-on-media
  *   Listening Post - Sovereign and self-determined voice in community media: https://www.listeninginproject.org/listening-post
  *   Publication (with Professor Bronwyn Carlson) ‘For an Indigenous perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick guide to First Nations media platforms’ https://theconversation.com/for-an-indigenous-perspective-on-australia-day-heres-a-quick-guide-to-first-nations-media-platforms-174704

Description of the project:

Between 2017 and 2020, the project ‘Listening In: Improving recognition of community media to support democratic participation and wellbeing’—funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship FT140100515 (2015 - 2020) —sought to understand to what extent Indigenous and community media voices are heard in key institutions of the mainstream public sphere, including by policymakers and journalists in media and government.

The Listening In project analysed political voice and political listening against the backdrop of the media diversity debates. It focused on community media in Australia with its stated commitments to media diversity and to amplifying voices that are rarely heard in the mainstream. It asked: to what extent is political voice enabled by community and alternative media heard by decision-makers and opinion leaders in key democratic institutions of government and media.

The Listening In project aimed to:

  *   Analyse how voices enabled by Indigenous and community media are valued by key actors in policy and opinion formation
  *   Identify possibilities and obstacles for listening in response to ‘voice’ enabled by alternative media
  *   Map engagement with Indigenous and community media among key actors of the mainstream public sphere



Dr Tanja Dreher (she/her)

Associate Professor | School of Arts and Media

Co-Director Media Futures Hub<https://mediafutureshub.org/>

University of New South Wales


Latest: Tanja Dreher & Lisa Waller (2021) Enduring silence: racialized news values, white supremacy and a national apology for child sexual abuse, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2021.1971732<https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1971732> Free eprints: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQMEDSNSKC2ZSKBEBVFX/full?target=10.1080/01419870.2021.1971732


Open Access in September: Tanja Dreher (2020) 'Racism and media: a response from Australia during the global pandemic', Ethnic and Racial Studies,43:13,2363-2371,DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1784452<https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1784452>


Listening In Project (FT140100515, 2015–2020) Listening In (listeninginproject.org)<https://www.listeninginproject.org/>


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