Struggling for Possession: The Control and Use of Online Media Sport. Policy debates about the private ownership of sport content by media companies and sports organisations, and citizens' rights of access to content in new media environments, are characterised by considerable regulatory and legal uncertainty. This Project will identify and analyse the sources of this uncertainty, and provide informed, evidence-based policy direction. There is a pressing need for such evidence, with regulatory a ....Struggling for Possession: The Control and Use of Online Media Sport. Policy debates about the private ownership of sport content by media companies and sports organisations, and citizens' rights of access to content in new media environments, are characterised by considerable regulatory and legal uncertainty. This Project will identify and analyse the sources of this uncertainty, and provide informed, evidence-based policy direction. There is a pressing need for such evidence, with regulatory authorities already expressing concern over the locking up of exclusive content rights by major media companies. This Project also contributes to the conceptual development of Communication and Media Studies in a key area of national popular culture - sport.Read moreRead less
The Mobile Media Moment: Investigating the Pivotal Role of Sport in Mobile Media Content, Markets and Technologies. Smartphones and tablet computers are transforming the production and circulation of media content in broadband economies around the globe. Recognising the phenomenal popularity and value of sport as a “premium” form of content, this project addresses the question of how sport affects the structure and operation of mobile media and telecommunications markets in Australia, China, the ....The Mobile Media Moment: Investigating the Pivotal Role of Sport in Mobile Media Content, Markets and Technologies. Smartphones and tablet computers are transforming the production and circulation of media content in broadband economies around the globe. Recognising the phenomenal popularity and value of sport as a “premium” form of content, this project addresses the question of how sport affects the structure and operation of mobile media and telecommunications markets in Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. This project is significant because it offers pioneering and internationally focussed research that will explain how and why sport is embedded in the complex interaction between markets, industry practices, policy settings, and new consumer technologies in an age of mobile media.Read moreRead less
A nation of 'Good Sports'? Cultural citizenship and sport in contemporary Australia. Australia is widely regarded as both characterised and united by sport, but the established sport-nation nexus is undergoing significant change. This project addresses current uses and meanings of sport, media and spectatorship in advancing knowledge and policy relating to sport's dynamic relationship to national identity and cultural citizenship.
Handling the 'Battering Ram': Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation and the Global Contest for Dominance in Sports Television. The flow and control of culture through the media is of profound importance to all societies. Sport is a key component of Australian culture, and access to peak sports events is recognised in 'anti-siphoning legislation' preventing exclusive capture by pay TV. There is strong pressure to de-regulate Australian TV sport, especially from Australia's largest media organisation a ....Handling the 'Battering Ram': Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation and the Global Contest for Dominance in Sports Television. The flow and control of culture through the media is of profound importance to all societies. Sport is a key component of Australian culture, and access to peak sports events is recognised in 'anti-siphoning legislation' preventing exclusive capture by pay TV. There is strong pressure to de-regulate Australian TV sport, especially from Australia's largest media organisation and most successful global media 'player', Newscorp and Rupert Murdoch. This Project's community benefit derives from its significant contribution to crucial debates about the power of nation states to control global media organisations, and by informing key considerations of cultural citizenship and media diversity.Read moreRead less