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This show casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week we mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then co...
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Communication Mixdown beginnings and Ambience of cities-how sound artists are creating peaceful spaces in the urban landscape
Sonic Gathering Place Melbourne Jail: Creating peaceful spaces in the midst of city chaosOn this Radiothon show we explore the beginnings of the show ...
Murdoch and mushrooms: Newscorp's reporting on climate change and what new research is telling us about fungal communication
Murdoch and mushroomsThis week Communication Mixdown looks at two very different forms of communication. We begin with Dr Victoria Fielding on the Mur...
What happens to your digital presence after death?
‘Social media is full of dead people. Untold millions of dead users haunt the online world where we increasingly live our lives. What do we do with al...
"Hear my voice, in my words" Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
Seeking Asylum: Our StoriesOn November 30th the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre here and Black Inc. Books here launched Seeking Asylum: Our Stories, a...
The Morrison government's new electric vehicle strategy leaves Australia "idling in the garage"
"This is a major economic risk for us": Jake Whitehead on the inadequacies of the Morrison government's new electric vehicle strategy On November 9th...
Women and girls at COP 26; The challenges of making a just transition to a renewable energy future
You look up at the stages and you see very few women: Women and girls at COP 26During the second week of the climate summit COP 26, a day was allocate...
Do self-help books help?
(Image: Angie/Flickr)Books that offer readers the chance to try to change their lives or selves for the better seem to be proliferating. Given their p...
Peace Building in Africa and Beyond: Creating partnerships in Australia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Peace Building in Africa and Beyond: Creating partnerships in Australia and the Democratic Republic of CongoThe Raising Peace Festival was held from S...
Urban foraging: Edible plants, caring for the environment and creating community
Urban foraging: Edible plants, caring for the environment and creating community Urban foraging is an idea that has been taken up by many celebrity ch...
What political philosopher Charles Mills' work means in Australia
Political philosopher Charles Mills died on September 20. Mills was a major figure in philosophy for bringing white supremacy to the fore in his work,...
Historian Barbara Minchinton on sex work and sex workers in 19th Century Melbourne
The Women of Little Lon: Sex workers in 19th Century MelbourneBarbara Minchinton's book The Women of Little Lon: Sex workers in 19th Century Melbourne...
Politics, flashmobs, Yolngu dancers: the Australian story of Mikis Theodorakis' legendary song Zorba
The Australian story of Mikis Theodorakis' legendary song ZorbaMikis Theodorakis, considered by many of his country people to be the greatest Greek co...
Making films with your smartphone
Technological disruption of all kinds of industries is the norm rather than the exception now and the film industry is no different. As cameras on sma...
The origins and principles of Shariah Law: Which version is the Taliban likely to implement?
Origins and principles of Shariah law: Which version the Taliban is likely to implement?As the Taliban consolidates its rule in Afghanistan it is ende...
Ramona Vijeyarasa on International Women's Rights Law and Gender Equality
Making the Law work for WomenRamona Vijeyarasa is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the editor o...
Violence against unarmed protesters in Buenos Aires Ecuador as Hanrine Ecuadorian Exploration and Mining S.A. comes to town
The townspeople of Buenos Aries (Ecuador) met with excessive violence when protesting against mining and the incursion of the police on their land Bet...
Religion in Australian Politics: Part 2
In the middle of April, Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison attended a national Australian Christian Churches Conference in the Gold Coast. A vi...
Religion in Australian Politics: Part 1
In the middle of April, Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison attended a national Australian Christian Churches Conference in the Gold Coast. A vi...
Will Barnaby Joyce's pro-mining stance see the Nationals lose their base? Environmental markets won't compensate for years of government neglect
Mining or farming: What do the Nationals really stand for?Barnaby Joyce's return to the leadership and his hard pro-mining stance raise questions abou...
Jesus and John Wayne: A reckoning
Jesus and John Wayne: A reckoning Kristin Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University in Grand Rapids Michigan in the United States. Her res...
Saving Westernport: How a determined community stopped AGL's plan for a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit in Westernport Bay
Saving Westernport: How a determined community stopped AGL's plan for a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit in Westernport BayOn October 17th, 2...
Radiothon 2021
Since 1976, 3CR has staked out a vital place on the airwaves, broadcasting news, analysis, music and the voices of hundreds of community groups 24 hou...
Sexuality and relationships education: Why it's so difficult to implement the programs young people keep telling us they need
The issue of sexual assault brought women into the streets across Australia to demand change and over forty thousand people have signed a petition cal...
What is the state of rural journalism in Australia?
Communication Mixdown looks into how local news in rural and regional areas is faring. Local newspapers are a dying breed and the coronavirus pandemic...
What does philosophy have to do with sex? A philosopher explains
Award-winning philosopher and author Damon Young discusses his latest book, On Getting Off: Sex and Philosophy, with Reema Rattan.
Class on Screen: how filmmakers depict the working class
British film director Ken Loach often features stories about people from the working class in his films.The author of "Class on Screen: The Global Wor...
Community radio and the climate crisis
When the pandemic subsides, we're facing another global crisis - climate change. Warming Up is a recently launched project that aims to link the uniq...
What about the audience? Public interest journalism in the time of pandemic
Image: Esther Vargas/Flickr Among the many underlying problematic social issues the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified is how journalism is done in Austr...
Coronavirus blues: the lockdown life of the Australian musician
This week, psychologist Wayne Gillespie, specialist in counselling for musicians and entertainers, explains how covid 19 restrictions and the personal...
Media literacy for life
Tanya Notley from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Institute of Culture and Society at Western Sydney University talks about Me...
Learning to be human: lessons from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
This year marks 50 years since Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire’s most influential work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was published in Eng...
Circulating conspiracy theories - the QAnon phenomenon
Since the arrival of the global pandemic, the flow of conspiracy theories online and in social media has turned into a deluge. Kaz Ross from the Schoo...
Media covid information: who do you trust?
The global pandemic has raised pressing questions about trustworthy health information, and journalism is postioned to play a significant role. Citing...
Unmasking the Racial Contract, with Dr Debbie Bargallie
Dr Debbie Bargallie discusses her new book Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous Voices on Racism in the Australian Public Service. Based on the P...
Covid and the spread of conspiracy theories
Early in the year the World Health Organization warned that we were battling not just a pandemic but an "infodemic". Robin Canniford from the Departme...
Mask wearing, fashion, communication
Mask wearing has become a normalized part of the covid crisis. Fashion historian Lydia Edwards from Edith Cowan University talks about various manifes...
What does class mean in contemporary Australia?
One of Australia’s national myths is that we are an egalitarian country where class is of marginal, if any, importance. Yet during election campaigns,...
Cybernetic capitalism: Google's digital empire
"I'll just Google it". How many times a day has this refrain been uttered by someone struggling to find the answer to a question? Timothy Eric Strom,...
What We Get Wrong When We Talk About Race
What do we mean when we say race? Why is it that it seems like calling someone racist is worse than the racism they display? Who gets to decide what's...
What to monuments and memorials 'mean'?
Image: Tim Waters/FlickrColonial monuments have been in the spotlight since the Rhodes Must Fall movement started in South Africa in March 2015, and h...