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Dr Tim Dwyer

Dr Tim Dwyer

PhD Macq;
MLegStud (Hons) UTS;
MGenStud (Media Studies) UNSW;
BA Macq.

Phone: +61 2 9036 5058

Address: Room 207, Reception, Level 2 Footbridge Theatre Terrace
Access adjacent to Footbridge Theatre and Footbridge over Parramatta Road
A09a - Footbridge Theatre

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Consultation Times
Monday 1pm to 3pm


Dr Dwyer has previously held positions with the Australian Broadcasting Authority (now the Australian Communications and Media Authority), the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has taught at Macquarie University and at the University of Western Sydney as a lecturer in Media Policy and Research in the School of Communication Arts. Tim is a member of the editorial committee of the Global Media Journal (Australian Edition) and also writes the ‘Australian Media Monitor’ section. He is a member of the Independent Grants Panel for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), which provides advice to the ACCAN Board regarding applications for research funding. Tim teaches Media Law and Ethics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Tim writes about developments in media and communications industries, law, policy and regulation for publications such as Inside Story, The Conversation and Eureka Street. With colleagues in the Department of Media and Communications he makes submissions to Federal Government inquiries, including the 2011-2012 Convergence Review and Independent Media Inquiries.

Associations

  • Australian and NZ Communication Association
  • International Association of Media and Communications Researchers

Research Interests

Dr Dwyer’s research focuses on the critical evaluation of media and communications industries, regulation, law and policy.

His funded online news diversity research project (with Dr Martin) conducted in the period 2009-2011, set out to track online news sharing trends in Australia’s two largest print media groups, News Limited and Fairfax Media. It included a computer analytics-based content analysis of top news and national news feeds from four metropolitan websites in each company, performed over three months in 2010-11. The analysis surveyed the level of duplication and reversioning of stories across co-owned websites in these organisations.

The broader aim of the study was to further our understanding of the implications of news content sharing for the provision of information diversity (and hence for the effectiveness of media diversity regulation policies). The research explored whether industry consolidation had resulted in decreased source diversity (fewer titles and journalists) and lower content diversity (more news-sharing and less difference in content formats). It also considered the possibility that online news sharing might result in greater local availability of existing news, as well as new content formats and publications. The research was concerned to examine how convergent news production practices and markets are evolving.

Dr Dwyer (and Dr Martin) has undertaken research into convergent and online news production and consumption for the Australian Press Council (APC) in 2010-2011. This APC funded project involved structured interviews with staff at News Limited, Fairfax Media, Australian Provincial News and Australian Associated Press publications in Brisbane, Melbourne, Lismore and Sydney, and Perth.

The research investigated key operational, legal and ethical trends in convergent and online news in terms of the implications for how the Council and its members may respond to print industry transformation.

In 2011, with his colleagues Professor Gerard Goggin and Dr Fiona Martin, Tim was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant entitled: ‘Moving Media: Mobile Internet and New Policy Modes’. The project concerns the mobile internet, how the infrastructures are evolving, how people are using these convergent media technologies, and how traditional and new modes of policy are responding. The broader purpose of the project is to improve our understanding of these media, and to provide evidence to inform better policy and regulation.

Publications

  • [Book] Dwyer, T. (2012) Legal and Ethical Issues in the Media . Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
  • [Book] Dwyer, T. (2010) Media Convergence . Maidenhead, Berkshire, McGraw Hill/Open University Press, UK.
  • [Book] Nightingale, V. and Dwyer, T. (Eds) (2007) New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence , Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2011), ‘Media Practice, Industry Change and the Law’, in Bainbridge, J. et al (eds) 2nd Ed. Media and Journalism: New Approaches to Theory and Practice , Melbourne. Oxford University Press.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2011) ‘Net Worth: Popular Social Networks as Colossal Marketing Machines’, in G. Sussman (Ed). The Propaganda Society: Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context . New York, Peter Lang.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. and Martin, F. (2010) ‘News Diversity in Online Media Systems: A Preliminary Report on the Concept of “Voice”’ in Vartanova, E. (ed.) Content, Channels and Audiences in the New Millennium: Interaction and Interrelations . Moscow: Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov MSU – MediaMir. pp.116-142.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2009), ‘Media Practice, Industry Change and the Law’, Chapter for Online Resource Centre in Bainbridge, J. et al (eds) Media and Journalism: New Approaches to Theory and Practice , Melbourne. Oxford University Press.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2007) ‘Traditional Media Buys Online: Not All Good News for Audiences’, in Kenyon, A. (Ed). TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia , Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2007) ‘New Media: The Policy Agenda’ in Nightingale, V. and Dwyer, T. (Eds) in New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence , Melbourne: Oxford University Press. pp37-59.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2007) ‘Dimensions in Media Diversity’ in Nightingale, V. and Dwyer, T. (Eds) in New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence , Melbourne: Oxford University Press. pp246-264.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (2006) ‘Dismantling Cross-Media Ownership Policies: Media Consolidation and Internet News and Opinion Diversity in the Blogosphere’, in Leandros, N. (Ed) Impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe , London, Abramis/Arima.
  • [Policy Report] Dwyer, T., Wilding, D., Wilson, H., Curtis, S. (2006) Content, Consolidation and Clout: How will Regional Australia be affected by Media Ownership Changes? Communications Law Centre, UNSW/Victoria University.
  • [Chapter] Dwyer, T. (1995) ‘Pay TV Policies in Australia: Are Audiences the Users who Pay?’ in Bailey, J. J., Craik, J. and Moran, A. (Eds) Public Voices, Private Interests: Australia’s Media Policy . Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  • [Policy Report] Dwyer, T. (1994) Privacy Implications of New Communications Networks and Services , Canberra: AGPS.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2012) ‘What’s new? Democracy, politics and the role of the media’, Australian Review of Public Affairs, February
  • [Article] Dwyer, Tim; Martin, Fiona; Goggin, Gerard. (2011) ‘News Diversity and Broadband Applications: Challenges for Content and Distribution’. Telecommunications Journal of Australia 61 (4): 65.1-65.11
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2011) 'National Broadband Planning and Market Liberalism: Regulatory Reforms for Citizenship?' Observatorio , Vol. 5, No. 1, March.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. and Martin, F. (2010) 'Updating Diversity of Voice Arguments for Online News Media', Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 4 Issue One, July
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2008) ‘First Impacts: Dismantling Frameworks for Cross-Owned Media in Australia’ Communications Law , Vol.13. No. 5, pp. 164-169. UK, Tottel Publishing.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2008) ‘Ownership Changes’ in The State of the News Print Media in Australia 2008 report , Sydney, Australian Press Council.
  • [Article] Nightingale, V. and Dwyer, T. (2007) ‘Community Attitudes and Changing Audiences: Integrating Australia’s Multicultural Diversity in Media Policy’ The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations , Volume 8, Issue 1, pp.81-92.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2007) ‘Fault Lines in Media Policy. Reviewing Broadcasting Pluralism and Diversity. A Comparative Study of Policy and Regulation’ (L. Hitchens), Media and Arts Law Review , Vol. 12. No. 2, June.
  • [Article] Nightingale, V. and Dwyer, T. (2006) “The Audience Politics of ‘Enhanced’ TV Formats”. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics . UK. Intellect.
  • [Article] Curtis, S., Dwyer, T., Wilding, D., and Wilson, H. (2006) ‘Too Soon: The government’s media ownership proposals’ Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy , No. 119, May, pp38-47.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2004, Mar17). Transformations: A Nation-State Responds. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture , 7.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (2003) ‘Recalibrating Policies for Localism within Australia’s Commercially Networked Television Industry’, Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy , No. 108, August.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. & Stockbridge, S. (1999) ‘Putting Violence to Work in New Media Policies: Trends in Australian Internet, computer game and video regulation’, New Media & Society , Vol.1 (2) 227-249. London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, Sage.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (1995) ‘Open & Shut? New Cable Networks Update’ Media Information Australia , No. 75, February.
  • [Article] Dwyer, T. (1990) ‘Emerging Policies for Pay TV: Official Conceptions of Audiences in Transition', Continuum , Vol.4, No.1.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. and Martin, F. (2011) ‘The Online Test for Media Inquiries,'The Conversation, 3 November.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2011), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 5 Issue One, September
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2011) EurekaStreet, ‘Media Inquiry won’t go far enough’, 20 September. Vol 21, Issue 18,
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2011), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 4 Issue Two, March
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2011) Inside Story, ‘Good news from the News of the World’, 20 July.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2010), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 4 Issue One, July
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2009), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 3 Issue Two, December
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2009), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 3 Issue One, July
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2008), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 2 Issue Two, December
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2008), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 2 Issue One, January
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2007), Australian Media Monitor, Global Media Journal/Australian Edition , Vol. 1 Issue One, June
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2007) Book Review. Media Debates: Great Issues for the Digital Age (Ed). Dennis, E., Merrill, J., Toronto, Canada: Thomson Wadsworth. Research Center for Cyberculture Studies , University of Washington.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2006) Book Reviews. Croteau, D. and Hoynes, W. (Eds) The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest . (Second Ed.) Pine Forge Press Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy , No. 119, May, pp158-162.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (2004) ‘Blurring Boundaries in Media Regulation’, Australian Mosaic (Media in a Pluralistic Society), Issue 5, 46-47, Canberra, ACT.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (1998) “Convergence: Reforms for New Media Technologies or ‘Just another Plug-In?’” Communications Law Bulletin , 17:2.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (1998) ‘Report on Convergence: Culture and Policy in the Digital Age Conference’, Communications Update , December.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (1996) Review of Financing, Programming & Diversity in Australian Television , (T. Flew) Communications Law Centre, Occasional Paper No. 8, Media International Australia , No. 82, November.
  • [NR Article] Dwyer, T. (1993) Review of Framing Culture (S. Cunningham), ‘The Value of Realpolitik in Blandsville’, International Journal of Cultural Studies , London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, Sage.
  • [Conference Presentation] Public Figures, Privacy, and Co-regulation: The David Campbell Affair, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford Conference, Media and the Boundaries of Disclosure: Media, Morals, Public Shaming and Privacy, February 23-24, 2012. Oxford. UK.
  • [Conference Presentation] Voice Diversity and News Content Sharing in Convergent Australian Newsrooms: Tracking the Impact of Online Reuse, The New Landscape of Global Communication Conference, July 1-3, 2011, Renmin University of China (and co-organisers China Media Centre, University of Westminster London UK), Beijing, China.
  • [Conference Presentation] News content sharing in convergent Australian newsrooms: the ethics of online reuse culture. The 3rd Moscow International Media Readings Conference, Journalistic Cultures: Facing Social and Technological Changes. 10-12 November, 2011, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • [Conference Presentation] National Broadband Planning and Market Liberalism: Regulatory Reforms for Citizenship? , International Association of Media and Communications Researchers Conference (IAMCR), Communications and Citizenship, July 18-25, 2010, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
  • [Conference Presentation] News Diversity in Online Media Systems: A Preliminary Report on the Concept of ‘Voice’ . Moscow International Readings Conference, 8-10 October, 2009, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
  • [Conference Presentation] First Impacts: Dismantling Frameworks for Cross-owned Media in Australia , International Association of Media and Communications Researchers Conference (IAMCR), July 20-25, 2008, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • [Conference Presentation] CCR New Media Worlds Book launch/panel 'New Media and the Public Sphere' , CCR 2007 Seminar Series, October 2007, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Sydney.
  • [Conference Presentation] Expanding the Net: Policy principles for sustainable diversity and IP-based media technologies . International Association of Media and Communications Researchers Conference (IAMCR), July 2007, UNESCO, Paris, France.
  • [Conference Presentation] Sustainable Diversities? Media ownership reforms OURMedia Conference, Sustainable Futures for Community and Alternative Media, April 2007, University of Western Sydney/University of Technology, Sydney.
  • [Conference Presentation] Traditional Media Buys Online: Not All Good News for Audiences TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia, Conference workshop, October 2006, Centre for Media and Communications Law, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
  • [Conference Presentation] Dismantling cross-media ownership policies: Media consolidation, internet news and opinion diversity in the blogosphere . Cost Action A20 (EC/European Union Media Research Network) Conference, ‘The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media’, April 2006, University of Panteoin, Delphi, Greece.
  • [Conference Presentation] The Big Bang, New Media and Discourses of ICT Enablement Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, Communication at Work, July 2005, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • [Conference Presentation] Community Attitudes and Changing Audiences: Integrating Australia’s multicultural diversity in media policy Transformations: Culture and Environment in Human Development, Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia Conference, February 2005, Australian National University, Canberra.
  • [Conference Presentation] Audience Activism and Regulatory Reform: Recent developments in TV participation formats International Association of Media and Communications Researchers Conference, Communication and Democracy: Perspectives for a New World, July 2004, Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • [Conference Presentation] Localism Policies and Audience Activism Digital Dynamics Conference, International Communications Association and International Association of Media and Communications Researchers Conference, November 2003, Loughborough University, UK.
  • [Policy Submission] Federal government/Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 'Convergence Review', November 2011.
  • [Policy Submission] Federal government/Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 'Independent Media Inquiry', November 2011.
  • [Policy Submission] Australian Communications Authority’s ‘M Commerce: Regulatory and Policy Outlook Inquiry’, August 2003.
  • [Policy Submission] Free Television Australia's ‘Review of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice’, September 2003.
  • [Policy Submission] Federal government’s ‘Meeting the Digital Challenge: Reforming Australia's Media in the Digital Age’, Ministerial Discussion Paper, April 2006.
  • [Policy Submission] Federal government’s ‘Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation Review’, November 2007.
  • [Policy Submission] Federal government/Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, ‘ABC and SBS: Towards a digital future’, Ministerial Discussion paper, October 2008.
  • [Policy Submission] Federal government/Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 'Convergence Review', January 2011.
  • http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/convergence_review/submissions_received_on_draft_terms_of_reference_for_converge...
  • [Policy Submission] Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs ‘Inquiry into the Australian Film and Literature Classification Scheme’, March 2011. (For the Australian Press Council).

Current Supervising Postgraduates

Crisia Miroiu, 'Media and International Conflicts: Official Sources and Consent Formation'.
Tom Zelinka, 'Re-evaluating the Spatio-temporal Relationships of Habermas’ “public sphere”, Bourdieu’s “field”, and McLuhan’s “medium”: Implications for Media Theory'.
Nonee Walsh, 'Mediating justice: Investigating the Media Framing of the 2006 AWB Inquiry'.