This article explores the connections between reality television and older print and
electronic media formats. It surveys the history of audience participation in the media …

INTRODUCTION most trusted (by 82 per cent), while international satellite TV news was
trusted by 56 per cent of those surveyed, who also deemed TV the most 'important'news …

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating?
In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing …

This core introductory text offers a comprehensive overview of how news has been theorised
and understood in key media studies traditions. It explores how news is constructed …

Ali is the founder and chief editor of Australia's first ever international refereed journal of
translation studies, Translation Watch Quarterly, launched in 2005. He has won several …

Arabic satellite television has recently attracted tremendous attention in both the academic
and professional worlds, with a special interest in Aljazeera as a curious phenomenon in the …

I'm sure there was a time when they were saying,'you know, only half the people get their
news from town criers that used to'... I don't think this is a generation that's less engaged. I …

Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including
work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this …

Arabic satellite television is a phenomenon that has swept the Arab world in less than two
decades and is said to have dramatically changed the Arab region. It has created a world of …

This thesis examines the changing relationships between television, politics, audiences and
the public sphere. Premised on the notion that mediated politics is now understood “in new …