With the month of April ticking over this week, I thought it would be a good idea to at least familiarise myself with what will be required for my BCM310 assessments, namely the Research Proposal and subsequent essay. As this is to be based on the topics discussed between weeks 4 and 12, I decided to have a look through the subject outline and skim through the required readings for the weeks to come. After coming to the end of these readings, I decided that the topic I am most interested in is one that I'm already quite familiar with and one that I discussed in last week's blog post; the need for Australia's classification guidelines to be brought in line an ever-shifting media landscape dictated by rapid technological convergence.
I have a number of other assessments due in the coming week and have decided to prioritise them as April 15th is still some time away. Still, this brief research into the first assessment has made my path of action clear. Over the next week or so I will need to begin collecting sources from all sides of the argument for media classification reforms in Australia. Even at this early stage I'm quite confident that I will continue to side with the recommendations made by Flew (2012) but I know personally that my opinions are always open to change after the discovery of new evidence and I look forward to tackling this issue in depth.
References:
Flew, T 2012, ‘Media classification: content regulation in an age of convergent media’, Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, vol. 143, pp5-15
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