[LINK] Australian online news history

[Fiona Martin]

Dear Linkers,

I'm doing my annual de-lurk to ask an Australian net history question for the forthcoming Companion to Australian Media  http://www.scholarly.info/media/

Bridget Griffin Foley's asked me to write a 1500 entry about online news media, covering key historical events and shifts – but most of the material I have collected is about post-1994 web news titles/sites and and news apps.

I have very little on locally produced, pre-internet and pre-web news publications or services – and would like to include mention of examples of both specialist and generalist news sources from this period.

So my question is - apart from Chips n' Bits magazine and this list, did anyone host or use any significant pre-1994 Australian based BBS news services, news groups, listservs or email newsletters?

I'm looking for titles/services that were groundbreaking not only in technological terms but had measurable social, political or economic impact.  Any suggestions for people to track down and talk to would also be welcome.

So far I've I've drawn on Roger Clarke's archive, early Internet Australasia editions, Goggin et al's Virtual Nation and Petrie's Clever Country, Paul Budde's 1990 report on value added networks, Trove and Pandora searches – but I don't doubt I've got a bit of leg work to do here.

I'm happy to take posts off-list, but let me know if you'd like any background detail on the entry.

I'll post the full entry for comment at the end of the month.

And thanks again to you all for the wealth of comment and debate during the year!

cheers,
Fiona

DR FIONA MARTIN | Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media
Department of Media and Communications |  School of Letters Arts and Media
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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