[Commlist] 'Listening In' research report and resources on community media and the politics of listening now available online

The public outcomes of the 'Listening In' project are now available via 
the project website:https://www.listeninginproject.org/


The Listening In final report provides a snapshot of sovereign and 
self-determined voice in community media, with a focus on First Nations 
voices, refugee and asylum seeker voices, women of colour, migrant 
diaspora communities, and intersectional voices. It presents results of 
our research on ‘institutional listening’ among policymakers and 
mainstream journalists. It discusses key challenges to the core values 
and key functions of community broadcasting in the context of digital 
disruption, with particular attention to competition for value from 
social media, and the conflicting values of corporate digital platforms.


Key findings include:

  * A diverse and dynamic First Nations media sector
  * Contained / constrained racialised voices
  * Limited institutional listening
  * Social media competition and conflicting values
  *

Resources include:

  * A directory of select sovereign and self-determined voice in
    community media
  * A directory of select ‘media on media’


Future directions include:

  * Further research is required to understand the persistence of white
    dominance in a community media sector that is celebrated for diversity.
  * Further research is needed to examine the implications of platforms
    as infrastructures and ideologies within the media field, rather
    than simply as tools that can be used in service of community media
    values


Links to resources (with links embedded):

  * Listening In - full report

<https://www.listeninginproject.org/s/Project-Report-Listening-In_FINAL_211210.pdf>
  * Listening In website <https://www.listeninginproject.org/>
  * Listening Post - Media on media
    <https://www.listeninginproject.org/media-on-media>
  * Listening Post - Sovereign and self-determined voice in community
    media <https://www.listeninginproject.org/listening-post>
  * ‘For an Indigenous perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick
    guide to First Nations media platforms’

<https://theconversation.com/for-an-indigenous-perspective-on-australia-day-heres-a-quick-guide-to-first-nations-media-platforms-174704>(with
    Professor Bronwyn Carlson)


Links to resources (separate URLs):

  * Direct link to

report:https://www.listeninginproject.org/s/Project-Report-Listening-In_FINAL_211210.pdf

<https://www.listeninginproject.org/s/Project-Report-Listening-In_FINAL_211210.pdf>
  * Website link:https://www.listeninginproject.org/
    <https://www.listeninginproject.org/>
  * Listening Post - Media on
    media:https://www.listeninginproject.org/media-on-media
    <https://www.listeninginproject.org/media-on-media>
  * Listening Post - Sovereign and self-determined voice in community
    media:https://www.listeninginproject.org/listening-post
    <https://www.listeninginproject.org/listening-post>
  * Publication (with Professor Bronwyn Carlson) ‘For an Indigenous
    perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick guide to First
    Nations media platforms’

https://theconversation.com/for-an-indigenous-perspective-on-australia-day-heres-a-quick-guide-to-first-nations-media-platforms-174704

<https://theconversation.com/for-an-indigenous-perspective-on-australia-day-heres-a-quick-guide-to-first-nations-media-platforms-174704>


Description of the project:

Between 2017 and 2020, the project ‘Listening In: Improving recognition 
of community media to support democratic participation and 
wellbeing’—funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 
FT140100515 (2015 - 2020) —sought to understand to what extent 
Indigenous and community media voices are heard in key institutions of 
the mainstream public sphere, including by policymakers and journalists 
in media and government.

The Listening In project analysed political voice and political 
listening against the backdrop of the media diversity debates. It 
focused on community media in Australia with its stated commitments to 
media diversity and to amplifying voices that are rarely heard in the 
mainstream. It asked: to what extent is political voice enabled by 
community and alternative media heard by decision-makers and opinion 
leaders in key democratic institutions of government and media.

The Listening In project aimed to:

  * Analyse how voices enabled by Indigenous and community media are
    valued by key actors in policy and opinion formation
  * Identify possibilities and obstacles for listening in response to
    ‘voice’ enabled by alternative media
  * Map engagement with Indigenous and community media among key actors
    of the mainstream public sphere


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