We are pleased to congratulate Cameron McTernan, a PhD student at the University of South Australia, who won the recent Global Media and Internet Connection Project symposium student paper competition sponsored by the IIC Australian Chapter.
You can read a copy of Cameron’s winning paper here: Source and Exposure Diversity of Australian News on Facebook.
The Global Media and Internet Concentration Project comprises over 50 of the world’s top researchers, as well as more than a dozen policy, industry and civil society partners (including the IIC), all dedicated to revealing the state of media concentration in nearly 40 countries worldwide.
Led by Prof. Dwayne Winseck (in an interview here with the IIC), the project launched in 2020 with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The project involves research teams – from every continent and covering nearly every major global media market – who have been working to produce regular reports based on independent, reliable data to inform public knowledge, media discourse and policy processes.
A project symposium was recently held at the University of Sydney in June 2024, providing an opportunity for the global community of researchers to assemble, share our research findings and innovate together to overcome shared challenges.