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TV Futures
Digital Television Policy in Australia

edited by Andrew T Kenyon
Melbourne University Press, October 2007
ISBN: 0-522-85440-0
$49.95

In TV Futures, leading researchers examine television and its digital future in terms of platforms and audiences, copyright law and media regulation—issues which are increasingly intertwined and demand interdisciplinary engagement.

TV Futures offers accessible analyses for readers from across the fields of law, media studies and social and cultural research.

The table of contents and introductory chapter are available (scroll down the linked page to see options to download) and the publisher's description and ordering information.

 

 
 

 

Contents:
Andrew T Kenyon, Changing Channels: Media Studies, Copyright Law and Communications Policy

Part I   Platforms and Audiences
Gerard Goggin, Mobile Digital Television: Dancing with the Stars, or Dancing in the Dark?

Rodney Tiffin, From Technological Abundance to Commercial Monopoly in Australian Pay TV: Key Relationships in Institutionalising Subscription Television

Tim Dwyer, Traditional Media Buys Online: Not all Good News for Audiences

Teresa Rizzo, Programming your own Channel: An Archaeology of the Playlist

Part II Copyright Law
Kathy Bowrey, What are You Missing Out On? Big Media, Broadcasting, Copyright and Access to Innovation

Melissa de Zwart, Australia’s Fair Dealing Exceptions: Do they Facilitate or Inhibit Creativity in the Production of Television Comedy?

Robin Wright, So You Want to Tape Off TV? Copyright Law, Digital Television and Personal Use

David Brennan, Flag Waving in the Digital Jungle

Kimberlee Weatherall, The Impact of Copyright Treaties on Broadcast Policy

Part III Media and Communications Regulation
Jock Given, Switching off Analogue TV

Jason Bosland, An Analogue ‘House of Cards’ in the Digital Era: The Shifting Structures of Television Broadcasting Policy in Australia

Lesley Hitchens, Citizen versus Consumer in the Digital World

Ellie Rennie and Julian Thomas, Analogue Nation, Digital Community

Elizabeth Handsley, What’s in it for Children? Dedicated Channels and the Effectiveness of Regulation

The book can be ordered from Melbourne University Press.

 

 

 

 

 

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