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Jock Given is the author of Turning off the Television: Broadcasting’s Uncertain Future, a book about digital broadcasting in Australia, the US and the UK, and America’s Pie: Trade and Culture after 9/11. His doctoral thesis about the early wireless entrepreneur Ernest Fisk was accepted by the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2007. In 2003–04, he received the C.H. Currey Fellowship at the State Library of NSW for this project. Jock has degrees in Law, Economics, Commerce and Arts from the University of Queensland and has worked as Director of the Communications Law Centre, Policy Advisor at the Australian Film Commission and Director, Legislation and Industry Economics, Department of Transport and Communications. He now researches, writes and teaches about communications law and policy, especially digital broadcasting, media ownership, international trade and the history of the multinational media enterprises. In February 2007 he became Professor of Media and Communications at the ISR. Office: EW107 Email: jgiven@swin.edu.au Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank Other recent writing 'The Digital Action Plan', Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, no 122 (Feb 2007) 'The game is on as media bosses circle', Canberra Times, 19 Oct 2006: http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=517997 'It's time for Canberra to stop tiptoeing around TV's future', The Age, 28 Sept 2006: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4982 'Everything on the record', Review of Whose ABC? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983-2006, Australian Literary Review , 6 Sept 2006 'New technology, same old problem', Australian Financial Review – Review Section, 8 July 2005 'Our Airwaves: Perspectives on the Preservation and Expansion of Diversity – Australia US Free Trade Agreement', Australian Fabian Society Autumn Lectures 2004, Melbourne: http://www.fabian.org.au/900.asp 'Let's not throw in the towel on media diversity', The Age, 24 June 2003: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=426 'Foreign ownership of media and telecommunications: an Australian story', Media and Arts Law Review, vol 7 no 4 (Dec 2002) : http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/malr/7-4-1%20Foreign%20Ownership%20Formatted%20for%20web.pdf 'The monopoly we had to have', Australian Financial Review, 14 Nov 2002
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