BUSHFIRES AND THE MEDIA

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PETER B WHITE

Peter White's interests are in the social and industrial implications of new media. He is the Director of the La Trobe University Online Media Program which conducts research into the uses of new media. Peter directs the Media Studies Program’s television industry training programs in Vietnam.

He is member of the Editorial Board of the journal New Media and Society and was the Associate Director of the Monash Information and Communications Technology centre and a co-editor of Media International Australia. He has edited a series of issues on satellite systems, digital media and telecommunications and has worked in Australia and the United States in the areas of broadcasting and telecommunications policy, telecommunications privacy, and telecommunications strategy development.

Apart from his research on Bushfires and the Media recent research deals with the censorship of online content in Australia published as “Where the national meets the global: Australia’s internet censorship policies” as Peter B. White, Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters. (eds.) Nancy Morris and Silvio Waisbord. Rowman and Littlefield, New York, 2001.

Current research with Naomi Rosh White deals with the experience of travel and has been published as “Travel as transition: Identity and place” Annals of Tourism Research. 31(1) (January, 2004) pp. 200 – 218. This work has been extended to focus on the use of the Internet and mobile telephony by travellers. The first paper in this research project has been published as “Keeping Connected: Travelling with the mobile telephone” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media. 11(2) (July 2005) pp. 102-112.