Empire and Antipodes: Australian-New Zealand involvement in the Empire/Commonwealth Press Union (1909-1970)

本项目将调查帝国/英联邦新闻联盟（1909-1970年）的作用和不断变化的意义，重点是其定期国际会议和出席会议的澳大利亚-新西兰代表团提出的传播问题。借鉴哈罗德·英尼斯（Harold Innis）关于跨帝国通信历史的研究成果，并使用e / cp作为一个案例研究，该项目试图从旧/新媒体和英国/澳洲通信的角度来调查大英帝国通信的兴衰。澳大利亚/新西兰新闻代表团的主要辩论和关切，包括新闻自由、有线电视技术和广播媒体的出现，将在私营/公共垄断和帝国/国家忠诚的变化背景下进行审查，并参考印度的平行发展。

This project will investigate the role and changing significance of the Empire/Commonwealth Press Union (1909-1970) focussing on its regular international conferences and the communication issues raised by the Australian-New Zealand delegations which attended. Drawing on the work of Harold Innis on the history of communication across empires and using the E./C.P.U as a case study, the project seeks to investigate the ascendancy and decline of British imperial communications in terms of old/new media and British/antipodean communications. Key debates and concerns of the A/NZ press delegations, including press freedom, cable technology and the advent of broadcast media, will be examined within the shifting contexts of private/public monopoly and imperial/national loyalty with reference to parallel developments in India.