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overview
This page provides an introduction to the site -
what it covers
Ketupa.net provides a resource for those interested in
the media industries and the 'information economy'.
Development of the site is ongoing. It currently provides
a short history, an annotated bibliography, a description
of major holdings and a chronology for around 500 media
groups. A list of the major groups is here.
Most of those groups operate across the globe. We have
included some businesses that operate only in Australia
and New Zealand, along with some public sector broadcasters.
We have also included a handful of defunct groups (eg
Maxwell in the UK and Curtis in the US) because they offer
a historical perspective.
The groups include newspaper and magazine publishers,
recording companies, film/video production and distribution
groups, broadcasters and academic/technical publishers.
The site includes a broader timeline
covering media activity in the West since 1712 and profiles
of some major advertising groups such as Dentsu, WPP,
Publicis and Omnicom.
why it has been developed
The site has been spun off from the larger caslon.com.au
site
for ease of maintenance and navigation.
It covers areas of personal and corporate interest.
access
Access to the site is free.
Maintenance is not based on subscription or sessional
fees, on advertising or the sale of data about visitors.
navigation
An indication of the overall structure of the site is
provided by the map.
The site comprises around 690 pages and some 601,500 words.
The site map points to basic components. Most profiles
have a number of subsidiary pages.
The menu bar at the top of each page points to major structural
features on the site and to two associated sites: caslon.com.au
and the Analysphere blog.
searching
All parts of the site are searchable via the index field
in the upper right quadrant of each page.
The index is updated on an irregular basis and thus does
not always catch all changes.
other sites
Links to documents outside this site are set to open in
a new browser page.
We are of course not liable for information or the performance
of sites outside our control.
optimisation and accessibility
The site is optimised for recent versions of Microsoft's
Internet Explorer but should be usable with other browsers
such as Safari, Netscape or Opera.
Questions about optimisation are explored in the Caslon
Design
and Accessibility
guides. Different browsers can display information quite
differently; we have optimised for MS IE because it is
used by more than 85% of the online population in Australia
and has a similar market share in many other countries.
We are rebuilding the site on an ongoing basis to ensure
full compliance with global accessibility guidelines.
privacy and other legal information
The site use page - supported
by more detailed legal statements and FAQs - identifies
how we deal with privacy, copyright and liability.
In summary, we respect your privacy: we comply fully with
Australian legislation on a 'best practice' basis. We
ask you to respect our work: read (and feel free to link
to) the site but do not appropriate the content.
feedback
We welcome suggestions and corrections.
The site has been cited by a range of academic, government,
industry and NGO sites and in works such as Ben Bagdikian's
The New Media Monopoly (2004) and Arundhati Roy's
War Talk (2003). An indication of credibility
is provided by the recognition highlighted here.
readers, authors and lawyers
Although the overall structure of the site is stable we
enhance the text on individual profiles on an ongoing
basis, including elaboration of some comments.
We strongly emphasise that readers should use their own
judgement about works that are highlighted in the site.
Our comments do not pretend to be definitive. We
have tried to point to a range of resources to assist
those with an interest in the media industries. Comments
about individual books or papers thus offer snapshots
rather than detailed full-focus critiques.
Readers concerned with a particular group or issue should
accordingly consult the relevant works and make their
own assessments. Reviews of most of the works are readily
available elsewhere on the web; many works include comments
on the earlier literature.
At
long last our ships may venture out again, venture out
to face any danger; all the daring of the lover of knowledge
is permitted again; the sea, our sea, lies open again.
Perhaps there has never been such an 'open sea'.
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