Chris Wilson

Office: EW202
Telephone: +61 3 9214 4446
Email: cwilson@swin.edu.au

Chris Wilson is a Phd student associated with the ISR's Youthworx: Youth Media and Social Enterprise project. After completing a Bachelor of Arts specialising in political and economic geography, he conducted social, economic and market research and planning for a range of public and private consultancies and media organisations. Recently, he spent time in the alternative and mainstream education sectors teaching English, politics, economics and history.

Topic

Frequently Modulating: Australian Radio's Relationship With Youth

Frequently Modulating: Australian Radio's Relationship With Youth, is an administrative and political history of Australian youth radio.  The research aims to trace the variety of ways in which Australian broadcasting has understood and sought to engage with youth.  While the adoption of particular popular music programming strategies by some commercial stations in the late 1950s may have inadvertently given birth to what came to be viewed as youth radio, later developments in the public and community broadcasting sectors drew upon much more considered rationales about the importance of radio to youth and youth to radio. How did such rationales develop and gain traction amongst policy-makers and decision-makers?  Just how did we ended up with a youth public broadcasting network and, at least until recently, youth community broadcasters in each of the Australian capital cities?

Candidacy

PhD test

Supervisors

Professor Denise Meredyth and Professor Julian Thomas

Publications and Other Research Outputs

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