Should companies and advertisers using images and other likenesses of what are sometimes referred to as 'charismatic animals' pay for efforts towards their conservation? To explore this proposal, Communication Mixdown talks with David Watson, professor of ecology in the  School of Environmental Sciences at Charles Sturt University and Stephen Downes, specialist in marketing and brand strategy at RMIT University, aka Parrot of the Day.

Communicating with public art, or art in public

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 consider: what impacts and what consequences?