Web Resources
Useful Web Resources PBL Exercises
Chapter 1 - Media law and Regulation: An Overview
- 'Convergence'
- T Dwyer 'Transformations', M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, No 7
- D Galbi, 'Communications Policy, Media Development and Convergence'
- Mass Communications and Information Systems (University of Southern California) Convergence Newsletter
- Out-Law
- Slashdot-News for Nerds
Chapter 2 - Truth, Media and the Public Interest
(PBL Exercise page 50)
- Law Online - government resource -see category for media and communications
- The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
- The Communications and Media Law Association (CAMLA) publishes the communications law bulletin which covers current law reform issues including regulation of media ownership
- The Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) is the peak industry body for subscription television
- Free TV Australia is an industry body that represents all of Australia's free-to-air commercial television licencees
- ACMA is the government body responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, the Internet, radio communications and telecommunications
Chapter 3 - Media Professionals and Fairness in Research and Reporting
(PBL Exercise page 64-65)
- All media Guide to Fair and Cross Cultural Reporting
- Cultural protocols for media coverage of indigenous issues
Chapter 4 - Investigative Journalism, Tabloid Media and the Public's Right to Know
(PBL Exercise page 86)
- Australian Journalists Association Code of Ethics
- 'Covering Crime and Justice', (Note that the law is USA based, but the ethics chapter is good.)
- The Drudge Report
- 'In the Garden of Tabloid Delight: Notes on Sex, Americans, Scandal, and Morality', by L H Lapham, Harper's Magazine, August 1997
- 'Leading Parallel Lives-Journalism and Professional Ethics'
- Australian Press Council
- Australian Government Solicitor - legal summaries
Chapter 5 - Free Speech and Political Comment
(PBL Exercise page 108-110)
- 3CR (community radio station)
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
- Community Radio Network
- The i2hub (online student P2P community)
- Censorship and freedom of expression, in Australia and elsewhere
- Community broadcasting association of Australia
Chapter 6 - Creators' Rights
(PBL Exercise page 133-134)
- The Anime Turnpike (a link to many anime and manga oriented fansites)
- Defence against theDark Arts site (a resistance site established when copyright holders attempted to close down Harry Potter fan sites)
- Electronic Frontiers Foundation and Electronic Frontiers Australia
- Australian Copyright Council
- Australasian Performing Right Association/ Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society APRA/AMCOS
- Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
- Viscopy - collecting society for visual artists
- IP Australia - Government agency for registration of trademarks and other forms of intellectual property
Chapter 7 - Satire and Other Forms of Expression
(PBL Exercise page 165-166)
- The Chaser
- Landover Baptist (a satire on right wing religious sites)
- The Onion
- Worth 1000 (an art site that often runs satire based contests involving modified photographs)
Chapter 8 - Audience and Community
(PBL Exercise page 191-192)
- CAPAlert (an alternative classification approach from a religious group)
- The Chopping List (database of material cut from various films on Australian distribution)
- Libertus (a civil liberties oriented site with a lot of historical and comparative regulatory information; includes 'The State of Censorship in Australia')
- OFLC decision database
- OFLC legislation and guidelines
- Refused Classification (a large historical database of Australian censorship including games)
Chapter 9 - Advertising and Community Advocacy
(PBL Exercise page 212)
Chapter 10 - The Public Sphere and Public Interest
(PBL Exercise page 231-232)
- Adbusters
- The Centre for Media Literacy
- 'The Copyrighting of Public Space'
- 'Expanding Media and Shrinking Public Space'
- Subvertise