Past Programs
Lifestyle and Leisure - 2008
Tears, tantrums—television!
27/11/2008
Inside the mind of a very successful reality TV producer. Drew Lesser is the Australian-born executive producer of the US hit Bridezillas.
Civility online
25/09/2008
Town square or playground of the keyboard warriors? Why does so much online interaction end up aggressive, polarised and anything but enlightening?
At the centre of journalism and media
11/09/2008
Professor Catherine Lumby is the Director of a a new media research centre at the University of New South Wales.
The Games and their coverage
28/08/2008
The Beijing Olympics wrapped up earlier this week and the Seven Network, who had the television broadcast rights, was quick to claim that they'd done very well financially from the Games. But as is the case with every Olympics, there are always a large number of people ready to declare the coverage the worst-ever. And it was no different this year.To help us dissect this year's event, here's television commentator David Knox from the blog TV Tonight, and Glenn Dyer, from Crikey.
A POOL of creative commons
21/08/2008
Those who seek a middle way between junking copyright altogether on the one hand, and slavishly trying to enforce it on the other, often talk about what's called 'Creative Commons' licensing. Even large media organizations are starting to look at this innovative form of licensing. In fact the ABC has just launched a new online collaboration site called POOL, which gives contributors the option of using just such an arrangement. The Executive Producer of POOL is Sherre Delys...
The Gruen Division?
07/08/2008
The audience loved it and it's apparently led to a flurry of interest in advertising as a career, but has the ABC's Gruen Transfer caused divisions within the industry?
Food and the media
10/04/2008
From gourmet blogs to Maeve O'Meara to Gordon %#?*! Ramsay. Join us as we explore the symbiotic relationship between food and the media.
The wide world of widgets
27/03/2008
Widgets have begun taking over the internet. But what exactly is a widget and how do they work? Niall Kennedy is a widget fanatic. He's also a communications consultant based in California.
