The Media and Communications in Australia

Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications at Queensland University of Technology and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland and an ARC Federation Fellow. They are authors of many other works on the media.

Tables and figures..Abbreviations and acronyms..Contributors..Preface..Introduction: The media and communications today..Part I: Approaches..1 The media and communications: Theoretical traditions..2 Policy..3 Representation and textual analysis..4 Imagining the audience..Part II: Industries..5 The press..6 Telecommunications..7 Radio..8 Film, video, DVD and online delivery..9 Television..10 Magazines..11 Advertising..12 Public relations..13 Popular music..14 The internet, online and mobile communications and culture..15 Computer, online and console gaming..Part III: Issues..16 Cultural diversity and the media..17 Sport, sex and politics..18 User-created content and online social networks..19 Celebrity..References..Index