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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>
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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 No 131 of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Media
International Australia</span></i> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>MIA</span></i>)
is now available: <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Australian Media Reception
Histories, edited by Michelle Arrow, Bridget Griffen-Foley and Marnie
Hughes-Warrington</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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'>From the editorial: We are delighted to present a landmark
collection of papers on Australian Media Reception Histories. The themed
section makes for fascinating and thought-provoking reading — and really
does, as the editors suggest, foster a ‘broader appraisal of the history
of the Australian media than traditional studies of production have provided’.
The eight papers they present cover a broad range of media forms
(sensationalist press, cinema, talkback radio, magazines, drama, news and
current affairs), and their authors inventively draw upon various methods and
forms of evidence (from trials and oral histories, through readers and
viewers’ letters, to geography, GIS and web forums).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Abstracts and further details are available on
the website: </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/"
title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/"><span
title="http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/">www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>General Articles</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Henry Mayer Lecture 2009: From <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City></st1:place>
to SBS: The popular, the global and the diverse on television, Ien Ang<br>
When TV formats migrate: The languages of business and culture, Albert Moran<br>
Diversity reportage in metropolitan <st1:place w:st="on">Oceania</st1:place>:
The mantra and the reality, David Robie<br>
Representing Australianness: Our national identity brought to you by Today
Tonight, Damian McIver<br>
Nerds in the city: Flight of the Conchords makes good television humour, Mike
Lloyd<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Australian Media Reception Histories<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>'<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Reading</st1:City></st1:place>
in brown paper': Beckett’s Budget and the sensationalist press in
interwar Sydney, Sophie Loy-Wilson<br>
Limit of maps? Locality and cinema-going in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Kate Bowles<br>
Beyond media ‘platforms’? Talkback, radio, technology and audience,
Liz Gould<br>
Desiring the (popular feminist) reader: Letters to Cleo during the second wave,
Megan Le Masurier<br>
Debating the barrel girl: The rise and fall of Panda Lisner, Susan Bye<br>
How to be a man: Masculinity in Australian teen culture and American teen
movies, Scott McKinnon<br>
Remembering Changi: Public memory and the popular media, Paula Hamilton<br>
The decline of traditional news and current affairs audiences in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
Sally Young<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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