Future of Community Media

This podcast is taken from a forum run by the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice in 2007. Our guest speaker is Alex Burns. It looks at the future of community media in the digital communication environment. 

The internet and its various technologies have ushered in an age of a global access and participation. Newer technologies such as blogging and social networking has made it much easier for us to have a voice. What then of community media? Does it have a place in the future mediascape? What is the role of community media in the era of the personalised push technology based media experiences?