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2009: The year ahead
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
As is traditional in Australia, the first day of the new year saw the release of cabinet records from thirty years ago at state and federal level. Incidentally, the underwhelming nature of what was revealed should put a big question [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Poverty, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, cabinet, Climate change, Employee Free Choice Act, healthcare, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Media, neoliberalism, new media, political economy, political sociology, Politics, predictions, press gallery, Rudd government, social democracy, social networking, unionism, us economy, US politics | 18 Responses
The summer of Australian culture, New Matilda (and new media) style
By Mark Bahnisch on January 1, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/746381286_2c6c08ecaa.jpg" Image of the State Library of Victoria from avlxyz at flickr reproduced under a creative commons licence. One thing I used to notice when I used to buy newspapers was that around this time of year “culture” steps [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Government, Media, Policy, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Australian culture, Barry Saunders, citizen journalism, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, e democracy, internet, journalism, margaret simons, media studies, New Matilda, new media, newspapers, openness, Pew Centre, political sociology, public participation, public sphere, sally young, social media, Sociology, State of the Cultural Nation | 13 Responses
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