The Fourth Estate

Friday 9:00am - 9:30am

The Fourth Estate explores the issues impacting on media and communications around Australia and the world. From moves to crack down on the freedom of journalists to report the news, to trends in the blogosphere and changes in the way societies communicate their ideas, The Fourth Estate provides fresh insights on our most maligned democratic institution.

Friday July 3, 2009.

Refugees in the headlines again, but are the media taking their plight seriously?"Wacko Jacko" has dominated the media over the past week, but what role have we played in the pop icon's meteoric rise and fall? The founders of The Pirate Bay site may be in jail for copyright infringement, but they could still get 7.7 million US for their site and an awesome new ad in Germany combines technology and advertising to highlight domestic violence.

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Pop Psycology for Beautiful People

Amnesty International interactive ad

Friday June 26, 2009.

Media blackout lifted after kidnapped journo escapes from the Taliban, but is the Fourth Estate guilty of double standards? Graffiti: art, illegal, or a damn good way to sell records? China blames pornography for increased internet censorship and the story of a small town Australian girl who grew up to be the matriarch of radical Islam.

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The Mother of Mohamed

Friday June 19, 2009.

The revolution will be Twitterised!! Or will it? We examine the post-election protests in Iran. What would you choose; prison or a possible terrorist attack?  A journalist in Northern Ireland fights to keep her sources confidential. Refugees and romance, "wogsploitation" and post war documentaries, it's all part of a new book "Diasporas of Australian Cinema" and journalists discuss revealing themselves online.

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Diasporas of Australian Cinemas

The Fourth Estate

Media and Communications  

Exploring the many different ways in which we communicate and use media, in all its forms, to do it. From the rise of the mobile phone in developing nations to the documentation of history, each week 'The Fourth Estate' examines the latest in media and communications.