Fiona Martin joined the Media and Communications department in 2008 after more than eight years teaching journalism, radio and media production at Southern Cross University. A graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, Fiona worked first as a journalist/producer in community radio and then for ABC Radio networks, including Radio National and 702 Sydney. She has also been a freelance radio documentary maker, a multimedia and theatre sound designer and has written for regional newspapers and magazines, as well as academic journals. Her interest in online publishing led to the cross-media documentary series Re-imagining Utopia (2003) <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/utopias> and a doctoral thesis on the emergence of an interactive multimedial ABC (2008). Fiona's publications include chapters in Virtual Nation: the Internet in Australia (2004) and 'New media, new audiences' in Media and Communications In Australia (2006). A reformed cyberfeminist, Fiona is interested in the expressive, pedagogical and political uses of online and new media technologies and in documenting the impact of participatory media on mainstream media production and publishing.

• public service media
• the impact of user generated content on journalism practice and media
• publishing
• convergent and online journalism
• online publishing communities
• technocultures
• participatory and deliberative democracy online
• science communication

• Martin F (2008) Digital Dilemmas: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s development of interactive multimedia publishing 1992-2002, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University
• Martin F (2006) ‘New Media, New Audiences’, in Media & Communications in Australia, S Cunningham & G Turner (eds), Allen & Unwin, St Leonards
• Martin F (2004), ‘Net worth: the unlikely rise of ABC Online’, in Virtual Nation, G Goggin (ed), UNSW Press, Kensington, pp. 193-208
• Goggin G, Clarke R, Garton A, Given J, Green L, Lovink G, Martin F (2004), ‘Histories, trends, futures: a roundtable on the Australian Internet, in Virtual Nation, G Goggin (ed), UNSW Press, Kensington, pp.271-291
• Martin F (2004) Watching the Creatives, Realtime, no.64, November, <http://www.realtimearts.net/rt64/martin.html></li>
• Martin F and Duncan K, (2003) Reimagining Utopia, ABC Regional Production Fund, ABC Radio National, Triple J and ABC Online <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/utopias></li>
• Martin F & Ellis R (2003) ‘Dropping in, not Out: the Evolution of the Alternative Media in the Rainbow Region 1970-2002’, in Belonging in the Rainbow Region, ed H Wilson, Southern Cross University Press, Lismore,
• pp.179-205
• Martin F & Wilson H (2002) ‘Beyond The Backyard: radio, the web and Australian regional space’, Convergence, Spring, vol. 8 no. 1.
• Martin F (2002) ‘Beyond Public Service Broadcasting?: ABC Online & The User/Citizen’ Southern Review, March 2002, vol. 35 no. 1, pp. 42-62
• Martin, F & Ellis R (2002) ‘Dropping in, not out: a history of the alternative press in Byron Shire 1970 – 2001’, Transformations, vol. 1, no. 2

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