About the Companion
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The Companion is generously underwritten by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant and Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, DP0877911.
Editorial Advisory Board
The Commissioning Editor, Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, is chair of an Editorial Advisory Board consisting of a media practitioners and senior academics to advise on the parameters, headwords, word allocations and authors for A Companion to the Australian Media.
The composition of the Editorial Advisory Board is:
- Professor Mark Armstrong, Network Insight Institute
- Eric Beecher, Chairman of Private Media Pty Ltd
- Associate Professor Robert Crawford, University of Technology, Sydney
- Mark Day, The Australian
- Professor Jock Given, Swinburne University of Technology
- Emeritus Professor Murray Goot, Macquarie University
- Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Macquarie University
- Emeritus Professor Ken Inglis, Australian National University
- Dr Rod Kirkpatrick, Australian Newspaper History Group
- Professor Michael Meadows, Griffith University
- Emerita Associate Professor Gail Phillips, Murdoch University
- Professor Julianne Schultz AM, editor, Griffith Review
- Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner, University of Queensland
For contributors
All contributors to A Companion to the Australian Media have received individual letters of invitation.
Contents
- Style Guide: click here.
- Tips on writing biographical entries: click here.
- Sample entries: click here.
- Excel spreadsheet containing alphabetical lists of headwords, word allocations and author allocations: click here. Please note that this is subject to change.
Research tools
Keyword searchable bibliographies:
- Companion: Over 1300 items about the Australian media published between 1945 and 1977, and not indexed by electronic finding aids. EndNote bibliography, Excel version.
- International: Over 250 items about the Australian media published in international journals, books and conference proceedings since the 1980s. EndNote bibliography, Excel version.
- Theses: Over 400 doctoral, masters and honours theses, generally unpublished, about the Australian media. EndNote bibliography, Excel version.
Reviews
‘An impressive collection of knowledge [in which] tenacious myths are pricked … The book illuminates technological topics which I thought I would never understand. It is not just for the media. Every public library and senior school library should possess a copy.’ — Geoffrey Blainey, Australian Book Review
‘… a reference book that is thorough and authoritative, while being versatile enough to remain fascinating for casual browsers … the Companion is a wealthy source of information and a testament to the quality of the many talented authors who have contributed to it.’ — Niels Kraaier, Australian Journalism Review
‘A handsome volume, the product of a savvy and tenacious woman … a massive undertaking … there’s wonderful serendipity in the printed form’ — Mark Day, The Australian
‘This is such an interesting book. In some ways that is simply a credit to its editor, the illustrious media historian Bridget Griffen-Foley, and her co-authors … Between them, they represent the best of more than one generation of critics, scholars, observers and practitioners of the Australian media.
Without such nation-building intellectual edifices in Anglophone media and scholarship alike, Australia is apt to disappear, as it does in most international collections …’ — John Hartley, Media International Australia
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‘This book not only puts Australia firmly in the global media spotlight it also greatly enhances the world of media history by filling this gaping Southern hemisphere gap …
Throughout the volume and across a variety of themes, the smoothness of prose and continuity of style speaks eloquently of the assiduous attention to detail of the invisible editorial hand. I may still be an outsider to Australian media but as in the intention of this book I am now much better informed than I was before and I can turn to it again and again as I seek to renew my cross-references between Western European, North American and Australian media histories; both voyage of discovery and essential reference point. It should really be in every media library.’ — Martin Conboy, Media History
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Contact
The Editor:
Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley
Director, Centre for Media History
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University NSW 2109
Australia
Tel: 61 2 9850 8828
Fax: 61 2 9850 2101
Email: b.foley@mq.edu.au
Twitter: @bgriffenfoley