This seminar is part of a collaboration between the Parliamentary Library and ACOLA to bring Australia’s leading minds from Australia’s Learned Academies and other experts to important topics of interest to Parliament.
Australian’s have access to more digital platforms than ever before, which are playing significant roles in shaping public information and opinion—in positive and negative ways—on issues as diverse as elections, natural disasters and wars. In this webinar Professor Jean Burgess will examine how this digital transformation is changing the current media environment and the policy and legal issues that this creates.
This session was a conversation led by Professor Jean Burgess and focus on the changing nature of media, including the role of social media.
The seminar was held on 23 March 2022 and recorded by the Parliamentary Library.
