Senate Occasional Lecture, Parliament House, Canberra, Friday August 28th 2009 We live in an age of communicative abundance. As in every previous communication revolution, new products and processes—satellite broadcasting, iPhones, electronic books, tweets, cloud computing—have spawned fascination, fear and trembling, excitement,...
Read MoreGriffith Review: Edition 24 Participation Society(Review's website here) There is a need for a fundamental revision of the way we think about democracy in our times. An epochal transformation has been taking place in the contours and dynamics of representative democracy. From roughly...
Read MoreProfessor John Keane visited UIN Jakarta and gave a lecture on Humility and Democracy at two places, CSIS and UIN Jakarta, 29 June 2006. Keane's lecture in CSIS was attended by Dr. AS. Hikam, who read Keane's books when Hikam studied...
Read MoreOn the Need for New Thinking about an Aging Ideal A revised and expanded version of the B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies , Delhi, 25 February 2005 The Democracy Thing From the sun-scorched vineyards of Kandahar...
Read MorePublished 1999 The system of modern communications media that has prevailed since the invention of the printing press – the Gutenberg galaxy – has been dominated by images of scarcity. This fact must be kept in mind when reconsidering the subject of public life,...
Read MoreThis paper was originally presented as the Southam Lecture at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, Ottawa, ON, May 31, 1998) Canadian Journal of Communication , Vol. 24(1999)165-178 (Here ) Abstract : Modem communications media since the invention of the...
Read More(This is a shortened version of his keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, 18 September 1997. This article was first printed in CSD Bulletin Volume 5, Number 1 Autumn 1997) 1....
Read MoreAbstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. In...
Read MoreExcerpt from Chapter 5 pp. 173-82 'Democracy, Risks and Reversals' in John Keanes book 'The Media and Democracy' Polity Press, 1991. Click here to read PDF...
Read MoreIn John Keane's, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991. Chapter 1, pp. 1-51 This chapter has been scanned and it is available for download in PDF image format. In order to facilitate the download, the document has been cut in sections....
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