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Screen Tests and Digital Dead-ends

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August 2003, no. 253

Turning off the Television: Broadcasting’s uncertain future by Jock Given

UNSW Press, $44.95pb, 342pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Media mania: Why our fear of modern media is misplaced by Hugh Mackay

UNSW Press, $24.95pb, 96pp

Screen Tests and Digital Dead-ends

by
August 2003, no. 253

At a recent Australian Broadcasting Authority conference, federal communications minister Senator Richard Alston conceded that the early adoption of digital television in Australia had been ‘modest’. More impartial observers of the transition to digital broadcasting in Australia have been less restrained. ‘A digital dead-end’ and ‘dismal failure’ are representative of recent media commentary on the subject.

Prue Torney-Parlicki reviews ‘Turning off the Television: Broadcasting’s uncertain future’ by Jock Given and ‘Media mania: Why our fear of modern media is misplaced’ by Hugh Mackay

Turning off the Television: Broadcasting’s uncertain future

by Jock Given

UNSW Press, $44.95pb, 342pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Media mania: Why our fear of modern media is misplaced

by Hugh Mackay

UNSW Press, $24.95pb, 96pp

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