Skip to content. Skip to navigation

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.

Related links:

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.

Related links:

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.

Related links:
Diasporas of Australian Cinemas




Podcast

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.


The Fourth Estate. July 3, 2009. 02 Jul 2009
The Fourth Estate. June 26, 2009. 25 Jun 2009
The Fourth Estate. June 19, 2009. 18 Jun 2009
The Fourth Estate. June 12, 2009. 11 Jun 2009
The Fourth Estate. June 5, 2009. 05 Jun 2009
The Fourth Estate, May 29, 2009. 28 May 2009
The Fourth Estate. May 22, 2009. 21 May 2009
The Fourth Estate, May 15, 2009. 14 May 2009
The Fourth Estate. May 8, 2009. 07 May 2009
The Fourth Estate. May 1, 2009. 30 Apr 2009
The Fourth Estate. April 24, 2009 23 Apr 2009
The Fourth Estate, April 17, 2009. 16 Apr 2009
The Fourth Estate. April 10, 2009 09 Apr 2009
The Wire. April 7, 2009. 07 Apr 2009
The Fourth Estate.April 3,2009. 02 Apr 2009
The Fourth Estate, March 27,2009. 26 Mar 2009
March 20, 2009 19 Mar 2009
The Fourth Estate. March 13, 2009. 12 Mar 2009
The Fourth Estate. March 6, 2009 05 Mar 2009
The Fourth Estate. February 27, 2009. 26 Feb 2009
The 4th Estate February 13, 2009 13 Feb 2009
Journalists and the bushfires, internet boom in China & the future of social networking online 12 Feb 2009
The 4th Estate February 6, 2009 06 Feb 2009
Democratic media, shield laws and digital libraries 08 Nov 2008
Behind a shock jock's mic 08 Nov 2008
The Truth of Jimmie Blacksmith, Norma Khouri and New and Old Media 21 Mar 2007
Antony Loewenstein on The Blogging Revolution 21 Mar 2007


To Subscribe To This Podcast

Download & install iTunes (it's free).
Open iTunes and copy the link below into the box that appears when you
select "Subscribe To Podcast" from the "Advanced" menu.  Need more info?


Shevonne Hunt

Shevonne also produces The Wire and Radio Atticus.

Contributers:
Shamin Fernando
Mig Caldwell
Cale Bain



fourthestate@2ser.com
Studio: 02 9514 9500