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The article presents the discussion on Medieval Latin commentaries meant "notebooks" or "annotations." Topics include juxtaposing commentaries written by art educators with brief responses from scholars working in neighboring or adjacent fields; and commentaries can be small portals outside the field of art education or small apertures into the field from the outside.

The author examines the gendered Oedipal dynamics in Steven H. Cooper’s discussion and the notion of the “phallic collapse” in the context of recruiting a “third.” By comparison, the developmental thrust of Jody Messler Davies’s commentary is examined, specifically the idea of the various registers located in particular self-other configurations and the primacy of sensory experience in unlocking the impasse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1934 and 1944, prominent marine zoologist William John Dakin occupied a public role as an Australian Broadcasting Commission radio commentator. For 10 years during the pioneering days of national radio, he broadcast his opinions, convictions, and idiosyncratic theories about science and society to the Australian public. At a time when the place of the sea in white Australia's history and culture was little-spoken about, Dakin used the influential new media channel of radio to reinforce the place of the ocean in Australian life. Of specific interest is the unorthodox way he positioned Australian identity in relation to the sea rather than the land. Also unconventional in the 1930s were his claims about human biological evolution from the sea. Well before mainstream acceptance of the theory of evolution, William Dakin delighted in speaking on national radio about the controversial and subversive subjects of man's “fishy ancestors” and “the ocean in our blood”. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The concept of play mediates between deliberation as a mode of reason and resistance as a mode of culture, thus opening a way to think about hostile comment (e.g., ‘flaming’) on online news forums as normal patterns of behaviour, instead of a departure from the received view of how citizens ought to consider matters of public interest. The play concept corresponds with current thinking around the notion of cultural citizenship. To illustrate the relevance of play theory in the analysis of online political discourse, this article uses an example from recent posts concerning the Protection of Information Bill (POIB) in the online site of the South AfricanMail & Guardiannewspaper. The cogency of play theory to the concept of citizenship is argued through a discussion of how citizenship has been understood from the 1930s to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the improved capacities of information and communications technologies (ICTs) made online deliberation a normal site for citizenship to be exercised. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author discusses the lessons learned about preparing and recording audio commentaries. First, do not risk going into a studio without a script of some kind to record a commentary. Next, consider to involve other people in a commentary. Finally, identify scenes of the film to make a subject of the commentary.

The author discusses the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and its application on the case of breach of the Broadcasting Code involving radio presenter Jon Gaunt and the British Office of Communications (Ofcom) in Great Britain. He provides an overview of the regulations for media comments on political rights and legal decisions. He also notes the applicability of offensiveness standards and content requirements to the broadcast media and speech.

The author reflects on the discussion of Michel Foucault, a celebrated French intellectual, on children and their sexuality. He argues on whether Foucault's approach in the discussion of the said topics can explain the intellectual's low profile, which was presented through radio discussions and was transcribed and published. An overview of Foucault's discussion on the logics and characteristics of children and sexuality is also presented.

The article offers the author's insights on the report regarding the "Blue Book," along with its author Charles Siepman from the magazine "Broadcasting" in the U.S. The author states that the role of Siepman for the writing of the book was to issue the report on the victory of commissioner Clifford J. Durr. He reveals that Siepman was a former British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and has been an official of the government financed in England. He adds the evasiveness regarding the series of editorials on the "Blue Book" in the issue of "Broadcasting."