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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Issue 129 of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Media
International Australia</span></i> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>MIA</span></i>)
is now available: “Making media policy: Looking forward, looking back”
edited by Jock Given.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The themed section of this issue is a fascinating collection
of eight papers that mediate variously upon the histories of various media and
their policy objects—television, broadcasting (national, indigenous,
multicultural), documentaries, telecommunications, wireline and wireless
telegraphy, and devices (mobiles, remote controls). Importantly for thinking
about the shape of media, and other worlds too, the gambit of the special issue
goes not just to the importance of taking a historical perspective—crucially,
it is about the uses, and abuses, of history.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>These studies offer histories of media that offer an
opportunity to de-familiarise their familiar forms. The authors are also keenly
attuned to the kinds of historical ratios that provide frameworks, texture and
promissory notes for those making policy. And, were we to think media
differently, what kinds of histories we might care or need to write and
activate, and for what reasons. As theme editor Jock Given observes: 'Good
media policy futurists have histories in their bones, but they need to think
hard about which ones.'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Abstracts and further details</span></font><span lang=EN-US> </span><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>are
available on the website:</span></font><span lang=EN-US> </span><a
href="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/" title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/"><font
size=2 face=Arial title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'></span><span
title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/"><span
title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/">www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/</span></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'></span></span></font><span
title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/"></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>GENERAL ARTICLES<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Internet media and the public sphere: The 2007 Australian
e-electioneering experience Jim Macnamara<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A quiet revolution: Australian community broadcasting
audiences speak out Michael Meadows, Susan Forde, Jacqui Ewart and Kerrie
Foxwell<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jack Bauer: The smart warrior’s Faustian gift Marcus
O’Donnell<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>MAKING MEDIA POLICY: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Making media policy: Looking forward, looking back Jock
Given (available for download)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>‘The potential diversity of things we call TV’:
Indigenous community television, self-determination and NITV Ellie Rennie and
Daniel Featherstone<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Special broadcasting: Cultural diversity, policy evolutions and
the international ‘crisis’ in public service broadcasting Georgie
McClean<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Making the Australian mobile in the 1990s: Creating markets,
choosing technologies Gerard Goggin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The old new television and the new: Digital transitions at
home Julian Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A 50/50 Proposition: Public–private partnerships in
Australian communications Jock Given<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Debating Australian documentary production policy: Some
practitioner perspectives Pat Laughren<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Broadband bottleneck: History revisited Trevor Barr<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The early years of international telegraphy in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>: A
critical assessment Peter Putnis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Reviews Edited by Kitty van Vuuren<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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