ABSTRACT
This article is based on the President’s Welcoming Address delivered on Wednesday 7 July 2021 at the 26th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, which was held virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sora Park
Sora Park is a Professor of Communication and Professorial Research Fellow at the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra. She is the project leader of the Digital News Report Australia, and author of Digital Capital (2017, Palgrave). She has published widely on the impact of digital technology on audiences, with a special focus on digital and social exclusion and the distribution of opportunities and privileges in society. She was ANZCA’s president from 2019 to 2021.