Airdate: SBS CQ: The New Digital Divide

On Friday night on SBS TWO Anton Enus hosts a timely debate about the new media landscape including online platforms, social media, satellite and international media and the NBN.

SBS CQ: The New Digital Divide follows forums on Cultural Intelligence and Media and Diversity held in December.

The development of new communication technologies has transformed Australia’s media landscape. In a world of increasingly personalised media use, the next SBS CQ debate questions whether these new technologies are connecting us to one another, or driving us further apart.

Where there were once five free-to-air television stations, now viewers can tune in to hundreds of channels in a range of languages. The rise of the internet and social media have also given access to an explosion of information sources from all over the world, available at any time of the day and at the click of a button.

Hosted by SBS World News Australia’s Anton Enus, SBS CQ brings together a range of industry experts, media commentators and influencers, to ask if access to all this technology and information is helping us to become better informed global citizens, or causing us to be increasingly detached from society and people around us.

Examining media use trends, research on online platforms, social media, satellite and international media, the future of convergence and the National Broadband Network, SBS CQ explores the impact on society of these ways of connecting with, or cutting off from, the world.

SBS CQ: The New Digital Divide guests include:
• Waleed Aly, Radio National broadcaster
• Mark Deuze, US-based media academic, author of Media Life
• Isabelle Oderberg, Social Media Editor, Herald Sun
• Axel Bruns, Associate Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT – has just completed a study on the ‘Twitterverse’
• Laura Demasi, Research Director, Ipsos Research – conducting a mind and mood study with ‘new Australians’ (Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Somali refugees) about their media use
• Iman Riman, SBS radio producer, researcher on satellite TV use in Arabic speaking communities
• Joseph Wakim, freelance writer, former Multicultural Affairs Commissioner, founder of the Australian Arabic Council
• Bill Patterson, Australian counter terrorism ambassador
• Misha Ketchell, Editor, The Conversation (www.theconversation.edu.au), former Crikey Editor, previously of The Age
• Wanning Sun, Professor in Chinese media use, China Research Centre, UTS
• Adel Ziani, former journalist with  LNP (London news productions), independent videographer
• Tony Mitchell Moore, Visibility Research – conducted research with the Indian community around media consumption on the issue of violence against Indian students in Australia
• Nayantara Pothen, Institute for Culture and Society, UWS
• Terry Flew, Professor in Media Studies, Creative Industries, QUT, and social media commentator
• Pino Migliorino, Chair of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA), and ethnic media expert

Friday 29 June 2012, 8.30pm on SBS TWO.