How is MIA a useful research tool?
Since 1976 MIA has been the ‘journal of record’ for the study of Australasian media and cultural industries. We have made it our business to cover major political, policy, cultural, social and economic issues facing the aforementioned industries in Australia, with some attention also to New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Despite our regional focus we are a truly international journal with contributions from every continent. We aim to provide a typically Australian inflection to the topical issues and perspectives we cover, and pride ourselves on the timeliness of our contributions to important public debates. An example of this would be MIA’s detailed examination of the cultural and industrial implications of the US-Australia Free Trade agreement (2004) which it published just as the Australian parliament was debating the issue. We are a rich source of opinion and commentary on the media and culture and, with four issues per year, we represent the work of a large range of Aus
