Also in association with Swinburne University,
the University of Wollongong, Australian National University,
Charles Darwin University, Edith Cowan University, ACID and AFTRS
How is media convergence impacting on established, ‘broadcast-era’ community media? In this paper Ellie Rennie takes SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study and employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media.
Issues of spatial distribution, allocation and access to resources prevail when establishing a long-term and viable e-community within the cultural sector.
Published in 'Broadband...joining the bits', a special edition of Telecommunications Journal of Australia, Vol.56, No. 3-4, summer 2006