Associate Professor Michael Meadows

B Arts, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Humanities

Contact details for Associate Professor Michael Meadows

Research expertise

• Journalism ethics and practice
• Media representation of indigenous affairs
• The media and the representation of race
• Indigenous media in Australia and Canada
• Community media audiences and production
• The history of the idea of rockclimbing in Australia
• The relationship between people and the landscape in Australia

Current teaching areas

• Electronic and print journalism
• Journalism theory

Publications

Monograph

• Meadows, Michael, Susan Forde, Jacqui Ewart and Kerrie Foxwell (2007) Community Media Matters: an audience study of the Australian community broadcasting sector. Brisbane: Griffith University, available for free download at http://www.cbonline.org.au/index.cfm?pageId=51,171,2,0 .

Community media

• Foxwell, K; Ewart, J; Forde, S; and Meadows, M (2008) 'Sounds like a whisper: Australian community broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution', Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (accepted January 2008).
• Meadows, M; Forde, S; Ewart, J; and Foxwell, K (2008) 'Making good sense: transformative processes in community journalism', Journalism (accepted January 2008).
• Meadows, Michael; Forde, Susan; Ewart, Jacqui; Foxwell, Kerrie (2007) 'Through the smokescreen: community broadcasting in Australia', in Alternative Media: idealism and pragmatism, (eds) N. Chitty and S. Rattikalchalakorn, Southbound, Penang.
• Meadows, Michael; Forde, Susan; Ewart, Jacqui; Foxwell, Ferrie (2007) 'Making spaces: independent media and the formation of the democratic public sphere in Australia', in D. Kidd, L. Stein and C. Rodriguez (eds), Making Our Media: mapping global initiatives toward a democratic public sphere, Cresskill, Hampton Press.
• Ewart, Jacqui; Forde, Susan; Foxwell, Kerrie; and Meadows, Michael (2007) 'Community media and the public sphere in Australia', in V. Nightingale and T. Dwyer (eds), New Media Worlds, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
• Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., and Foxwell, K. (2007) 'Empowering audiences: transformative processes in Australian community broadcasting', Australian Journalism Review,  vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 27-40.
• Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael; Ewart, Jacqui; Foxwell, Kerrie (2006) '"The untapped potential of participation": evaluating community media audiences', Australian Studies in Journalism 16, pp. 74-100.
• Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., and Foxwell, K. (2006). 'Creating an Australian community public sphere: the role of community radio', The Radio Journal - International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media,VOL. 3, NO. 3, pp. 171-187.
• Ewart, Jacqui; Meadows, Michael; Forde, Susan; and Foxwell, Kerrie (2005) 'Media matters: ways to link community radio and community newspapers', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 87-104.
• Meadows, Michael; Forde, Susan; Ewart, Jacqui; and Koxwell, Kerrie (2005) 'Perfect match? Qualitative audience research and the community media sector', 3C Media Online, http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/3c_issue1/index.shtm .
• Keynote address at the 'Alternative media: idealism versus pragmatism' conference, Macquarie University, 19-20 April 2005.
• Forde, Susan, Meadows, Michael and Foxwell, Kerrie (2005) 'The rise and rise of community radio', editorial in Transformations, Issue 10, February.
• 'Telling stories', A presentation on community radio research and multicultural audiences at Brisbane Ethnic Music and Arts Centre (BEMAC) World Arts Forum, Kangaroo Point, 12 May 2004.
• Forde, Susan; Foxwell, Kerrie; and Meadows, Michael (2003) 'Through the lens of the local: public arena journalism in the Australian community broadcasting sector', Journalism , vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 317-342.
• Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael, Foxwell, Kerrie (2003) 'Community radio and local culture: an Australian case study', European Journal of Communication Research, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 231-252.
• Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael; and Foxwell, Kerrie (2003) 'Experiencing radio: training, education and the community radio sector', Australian Studies in Journalism 12, pp. 83-103.
• Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael; and Foxwell, Kerrie (2003) 'Distant voices: a study of community radio in Australia', Australian Journalism Review , vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 85-100.
• Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael; Foxwell, Kerrie (2003) Culture, commitment, community: the Australian community radio sector , Brisbane, Griffith University.
• 'Communicating Culture: community media in Australia' paper presented at Our media not theirs II: A pre-conference on alternative media at IAMCR, Barcelona, 20 July 2002, with Susan Forde and Kerrie Foxwell.
• ' Public arena journalism practices: the local-global interface', paper presented at the Journalism Education Association (South Pacific) Annual Conference, Hong Kong, 2-6 December 2002, with Susan Forde and Kerrie Foxwell.
• Forde, Susan; Foxwell, Kerrie; & Meadows, Michael (2002) ' Creating a community public sphere: community radio as a cultural resource ', Media International Australia , 103, pp. 56-67.
• 'Commitment to Community: results from a national survey of the community radio sector', paper presented at the 'Radio, Television and the New Media', Conference, Australian Broadcasting Authority, May 3-4, Canberra 2001, with Susan Forde & Kerrie Foxwell.
• 'Community voices', paper presented at the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Annual Conference, "Voltage, Voices, Volunteers" Hobart, November 16-18, 2001, with Susan Forde & Kerrie Foxwell.
• Forde, Susan; Meadows, Michael; Foxwell, Kerrie (2001) 'On the cultural benefits of community broadcasting', commissioned by the CBAA for the Cultural Ministers' Council conference ($3,000).
• 'Community radio and the public sphere', Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Annual Conference, Gold Coast, November, 2000, with Susan Forde & Kerrie Foxwell.

Journalism practices and representation of Indigenous people

• Meadows, Michael (2004) 'Media images of Indigenous affairs in the Australian media', in J. Leigh & E. Loo (eds) Outer Limits: a reader in communication across cultures , Melbourne, Language Australia.
• 'Race relations and the media'. Presentation and participation in a panel discussion at JEA National Conference, University of Western Sydney, November 26-29, 2003.
• Meadows, Michael (2001) Voices in the Wilderness: Images of Aboriginal people in the Australian media, Westport, Greenwood Press.
• Meadows, Michael (2000) 'Deals and victories: newspaper coverage of native title in Australia and Canada', Australian Journalism Review , vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 81-105.
• Meadows, Michael (2001) 'A 10-point plan and a treaty: representing race relations in the press in Australia and Canada, Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 23-45.
• Meadows, Michael and Ewart, Jacqui (2001) 'Journalism practices and Indigenous affairs', in S. Tapsell and C. Varley (eds) Journalism Theory in Practice , Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
• Meadows, Michael (2001) 'A return to practice: reclaiming journalism as public conversation', in S. Tapsell and C. Varley (eds) Journalism Theory in Practice , Melbourne, Oxford University Press.

Indigenous media

• Meadows, Michael (2005) 'Journalism and Indigenous public spheres', Pacific Journalism Review, vol. 11, no. 1, April, pp. 36-41.
• Morris, Christine and Meadows, Michael (2004) 'Digital Dreaming: Indigenous communication and the Internet', in Virtual Nation (ed) Gerard Goggin, UNSW Press, Sydney.
• Meadows, Michael and Morris, Christine (2003) 'Framing the future: Indigenous communication in Australia', in N. Couldry and J.Curran (eds) Contesting Media Power, Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
• Meadows, Michael (2002) 'Tell me what you want and I'll give you what you need': perspectives on Indigenous media audience research', in Mobilising the audience (eds) Mark Balnaves, Tom O'Regan, and Jason Sternberg, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, pp. 253-265.
• Meadows, Michael and Molnar, Helen (2002) 'Bridging the gaps: towards a history of Indigenous media in Australia', Media History, vol. 8, no. 1, .pp. 9-20.
• Molnar, Helen and Meadows, Michael (2001) Songlines to Satellites: Indigenous communication in Australia, the South Pacific and Canada , Leichhardt, Pluto Press.
• Meadows, Michael (2000) 'Silent talking: Indigenous media policy and the Productivity Commission', Media International Australia 95, May, pp. 29-48.
• Meadows, Michael and Avison, Shannon (2000) 'Speaking and hearing: Aboriginal newspapers and the public sphere in Canada and Australia', Canadian Journal of Communication , vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 347-366.
• Morris, Christine and Meadows, Michael (2000) 'Indigenising intellectual property', Griffith Law Review , vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 212-226.
• Meadows, Michael (2000) Urban Indigenous media audiences , a background paper prepared for ATSIC for submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into Australian broadcasting, January.
• People, mountains and climbing in Australia
• See my blog at climbinghistoryoz.blogspot.com
• Presentation of research into climbing history of SE Queensland ��� 'Mountaineering Tales' ��� to the 'No Frontiers', monthly literary event supported by the Federation of Australian Writers and the Museum of Brisbane, 9 April 2005.
• Presentation of details of my research into the climbing history of SE Queensland to Rathdowney Historical Society, 23-24 April 2005.
• 'The invention of climbing in Queensland', keynote address at Transformation in the Outdoors: combined State Outdoor Conference, Alexandra Park Conference Centre, Alexandra Headlands, Sunshine Coast, 19-20 June 2004.
• 'Producing space and place: the invention of mountaineering by the early Queensland press', paper presented at the JEA National Conference, University of Western Sydney, November 26-29, 2003.
• 'The changing role of Queensland newspapers in imagining leisure and recreation', paper presented to the Australian Media Traditions conference, 'Continuity and change', Capricorn International Resort, Yeppoon, 13-15 June 2001.
• Meadows, Michael (2001) 'The changing role of Queensland newspapers in imagining recreation', e-journalist , ejournalist.au.com (Central Queensland University).
• Meadows, Michael, Thomson, Robert and Stewart, Wendy (2000), 'Close to the edge: imagining climbing in southeast Queensland', Queensland Review , vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 67-84.
• 'Close to the edge: imagining climbing in southeast Queensland', paper delivered at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association annual conference, Ethics, Events and Entertainment , at Ballina, 3-5 July, 2000, with Robert Thomson and Wendy Stewart.
• 'The imagined community: climbing and the early Queensland press', paper delivered at the Journalism Education Association annual conference��� Journalism Education Futures ���Mooloolaba, 5-8 December, 2000, with Robert Thomson and Wendy Stewart.