newmedia.com.au: The changing face of Australia's media and communications

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From voice mail to email to the World Wide Web, communications have now infiltrated virtually every aspect of our lives. In this volume, the author explains the exponential growth of media, information technology and telecommunications, looking at the major stakeholders and the new global economy. He asks who is driving these changes and who benefits in a more privatized, deregulated, information-based international and Australia economy. He examines where Australia is situated within this new international communications order and the choices the country must make.

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Trevor Barr is Professor of Media and Telecommunications at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He is the author of The Electronic Estate ( Penguin Books, 1985), and a highly regarded national commentator. The Sydney Morning Herald chose him as one of Australia's most influential thinkers about major future issues facing Australia.