Overview
- Assesses the institutional status of the ABC by drawing on the theories of cultural capital and institutional analysis
- Examines how the ABC has dealt with changing political and media environments
- Explores how the corporatist shift is inadequate for delivering the ABC Charter and its ideals
- Analyses an incompatibility between mimicking commercial competitors and delivering on its Charter
- Investigates the deleterious impact of a strong but defensive internal staff culture
- Includes analysis of the impact and implications of digitalisation on the media landscape
- Draws on interviews with senior staff and former managing directors of the ABC, transcripts of ABC Archives, Hansard, the Australian National Archives, and government inquiries
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The book provides the reader with an authoritative narrative as to how the ABC has lost its iconic status in Australian society, and unfolds how the ABC has strayed from its respected public charter which endowed the ABC with a distinctive and important role in informing, educating and entertaining the Australian public. Successive federal government funding cuts have shrunk staffing levels and services while it has pursued a corporatist model that mimics the trappings and practices of commercial media. In that process it has become politicised and trivialised, thereby threatening its demise. The book is a unique and timely contribution at a time of dwindling interest for the funding of public assets everywhere. There is no other book in the market that addresses the decline of the organisation (the ABC) and analyses the reasons for its demise within an organisational theoretical framework.
The book is written for an educated general audience, with academics and media practitioners specifically in mind, and has everyday applications for business organisations operating in the public sector by bringing together important findings of public funding, budgets, management and organisational strategies and evolution.
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Keywords
- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Australian Public Broadcasting
- Public Broadcasting
- Organisational Structures in Publicly-Funded Bodies
- Cultural Capital in Australia
- Corporatist Agenda in Australia
- Centralising Public Broadcasting
- Centralising Public Broadcasting in Australia
- Organisational Structures and Australia
- Publicly-Funded Bodies in Australia
- Australian Television
- Australian Media Landscape
- Digitalisation of Media
- Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of capital
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Book Title: Strangling Aunty: Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Authors: Virginia Small
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0776-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0775-2Published: 27 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0778-3Published: 28 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0776-9Published: 24 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 1105
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organization, Film/TV Industry, Australasian Cinema and TV, Media and Communication, Media Management