Professor Elizabeth Jacka
Professor of Communication Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
Current ARC Projects
2002-2004 'The New Services Industry Model: Implications for Audiovisual Media (with Professors Stuart Cunningham and Tom O’Regan and Dr Julian Thomas)
2003-2006 'Welcome to Television: A Cultural History of Australian Television 1956-1992 (with Associate professor Paula Hamilton)
Publications
Chapters in Books
2001: 'The future of public service broadcasting', in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (eds), The Media In Australia, third edition, St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, pp. 300-343
2000: "Public Service TV: An Endangered Species", in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (eds) The Australian Television Book, St Leonards: Allen and Unwin.
2003:"Public Service TV: and Endangered Species", in Toby Miller (ed.), Television: Critical Concepts, London and New York: Routledge (forthcoming) (reprint of Jacka 2000)
Refereed Articles
2003:"'Democracy as Defeat': The Impotence of Arguments for public service Broadcasting", Television and New Media, Vol. 4 No.2: 177-191
Current Research Interests
history of Australian television
public service broadcasting