Australia Media Traditions Conference Program
Thursday November 22
| 8am | Conference Registration |
| 8.45 | Wiradjuri Welcome to Country Gloria Rogers |
| 9am | Conference Opening Professor Lyn Gorman Charles Sturt University Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) |
| 9.15 | Opening Keynote Address Sol Lebovic Founder and former chairman of Newspoll and the Australian's polling consultant for the 2007 federal election campaign "To Poll or not to Poll: audiences and influence" |
| 10.10 | Morning Tea |
| 10.30 | Conference Session 1 |
| Diversity, distance and tradition | The media of representation | ||
| Remembering our Indigenous past: Local talk as public opinion about Indigenous history (Refereed Paper) |
Kerry McCallum University of Canberra | Australian Public Relations Campaigns: a select historical perspective 1899-1961 (Refereed Paper) |
Mark Sheehan Deakin University |
| Introducing A Companion to the Australian Media | Bridget Griffen-Foley Macquarie University |
Is it as good? Branding Australianness the Bushells way | Susie Khamis Macquarie University |
| Tradition and communication in New Media (Refereed Paper) |
John O'Carroll Charles Sturt University |
Totem-Pole-Dancing: Animality in Australian Electronic Media | Terry Maybury Charles Sturt University |
| 12pm | Lunch Dr Robin McLachlan Charles Sturt University Adjunct Senior Lecturer in History and Cultural Heritage "Bathurst Reflections - People and Events in Bathurst's history" |
| 1.30 | Conference Session 2 |
| Reel life | The media of thought | ||
| The ABC's digital transformations: a continuing (hi)story (Refereed Paper) |
Anne Dunn University of Sydney | Journalism and philosophy: remembering Clem Lloyd (Refereed Paper) |
Penny O'Donnell University of Technology, Sydney |
| The more things change... | Heather Stewart University of Queensland | The anatomy of a conservative newspaper born in a cradle of radicalism | Rod Kirkpatrick University of Queensland |
| Hirers and firers in Australian television news: using oral history to mark generational change (Refereed Paper) |
Kay Nankervis Charles Sturt University |
A global conservative commentariat? | David McKnight University of New South Wales |
| 3pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.30 | Conference Session 3 |
| Print to the people | Conflict and opinion | ||
| Tracing a Nineteenth Century Murder in the Bathurst Free Press | Patricia Clarke Independent Scholar |
A contemporary application of Mill's argument for increasing media coverage of dissident opinions | John Hadley Charles Sturt University |
| The early years of the Australian Financial Review | Jennifer Kitchener University of Canberra |
'Rousing the British-speaking world': Australian newspaper proprietors and freedom of the press, 1940-1950 (Refereed Paper) |
Denis Cryle Central Queensland University |
| The trajectory of markup, indexing and labelling: the continuum via print publishing & libraries to Semantic Web & online games |
Cate Dowd Charles Sturt University | "All the glamour of the East": The Australian Women's Weekly and the AIF in Malaya, 1941 | Jeannine Baker University of Melbourne |
| 5pm | Announcements (if needed) |
| 6pm | Twilight History of Bathurst Guided Stroll |
| 7pm for 7.30pm | Conference Dinner at Crowded House |
Friday November 23
| 8.30am | Registration |
| 9am | Keynote Rose Holley Manager - Newspaper Digitisation Program, National Library of Australia "The Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program: Helping communities access and explore their newspaper heritage" |
| 9.50 |
Australian Media History website launch Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley Director, Centre for Media History, Macquarie University |
| 10am | Morning Tea |
| 10.30 | Conference Session 4 |
| Signalling audiences: morse and radio | Tradition and change in war reporting | ||
| The Telegraph Revisted. Influence, community, and endurance in Australia | Ann Moyal Independent Scholar |
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| Reporting Armistice: A study of language in context | Claire Scott Macquarie University |
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| Domestic destinies: Public service radio and the governance of the intimate sphere (Refereed Paper) |
Justine Lloyd University of Technology, Sydney |
Australia's Press coverage of the Vietnam War | Trish Payne University of Canberra |
| 12pm | Lunch |
| 1pm | Conference Session 5 |
| Screen audiences and culture | Word from the frontline | ||
| 'Mum likes Bandstand too': Creating the teenage audience: Youth culture and early Australian television | Michelle Arrow Macquarie University |
The Crimean War and Australia's Communications and Media History (Refereed Paper) |
Peter Putnis and Sarah Ailwood University of Canberra |
| 'Mothers Like Him': Graham Kennedy and the Great Divide (Refereed Paper) |
Susan Bye Latrobe University |
Malcolm Ross, New Zealand newspapers and the Samoan "troubles" of 1899 (Refereed Paper) |
Allison Oosterman Auckland University of Technology |
| Loser-generated content? A social media microhistory of car race fans | David Cameron Charles Sturt University |
Guernica and after: Australian war correspondents and the Spanish Civil War (Refereed Paper) |
Richard Trembath University of Melbourne |
| 2.30 | Afternoon Tea and Conference Close |