... of the relatively low-cost digital and online technologies now available, as evidenced by the lack of any effective online presence or any comprehensive intra-student media network. Student-media is at a vital crossroad and is, I suspect, hamstrung by the very elements that inspired its origins and epitomise its character - disorganisation and disconnection (extreme independence). Signs of irrelevance (lack of student interest) and redundancy (the emergence of Indymedia) already exist, and should it fail to move into the 21st century so to speak, we may see it become nothing more than a collection of isolated campus newsletters. The first Australian student publication, Sydney University's Honi Soit, was started in 1926, with the formation of the Sydney University Student Representative Council. It set the tone for student publications by defending students vilified in the mainstream press for a prank at the Cenotaph in Martin Place. (website 1. 2002) Over the ...

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