Janine’s blog

Listening to Margaret Throsby interview on ABC Classic FM. She is interviewing  Dr Jim McNamara,  Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney and Director of the Australian Centre for Public Communication, on the topic of  emergent media. It is interesting to listen to such interviews during the day and realise that there is still a need for education at a really simple level.  His conversation does a good job of this as one would expect from his position title!

Some paraphrased snippets:

“…..this gets to some fundamental beliefs such as ‘Do you believe in participatory communication’…..

“….It’s not just new media that are emergent but rather that existing media are changing eg newspapers online, podcasting, RSS feeds……”

“What are the filters so that people know what is accurate?”
“This is one of the challenges….that is why there is a continuing need for editors, journalists….but the public is making it clear that they are tired of the gatekeepers……

 http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s2262283.htm