Deliberative democracy - utopian pipe dream or attainable vision for the future, and how does it intersect with specific modes of communication and counter the global rise of populist rhetoric? Nicole Curato from the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Governance at the University of Canberra surveys some of the issues.

Struggling against institutional racism in the media and other culture industries

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?