By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2009
Thanks to commenter Bird of paradox on a previous thread for drawing my attention to the creation of a Facebook group “Come on Turnbull, don’t take away my $950 bucks !”. As of this morning, it was the largest political [...]
Posted in Activism, Economics, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Australian Greens, Australian politics, Bob Brown, Come on Turnbull, crowdsourcing, don't take away my $950 bucks !, economic policy, facebook, Family First, global financial crisis, internet, Kevin Rudd, lobbying, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon, Politics, Senate, Senators, Sociology, Steve Fielding, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 30, 2009
In an earlier post riffing off the Katherine Wilson hoax on Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant, I made some comments about the absence of any real political force representing small l Liberalism, to the consternation of some commenters on the ensuing [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Activism, ALP, Deakinite, Democrats, Katherine Wilson, Labor, Norman Abjorensen, political parties, political sociology, Quadrant, small l liberalism, Third Way, UK Labour |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 19, 2009
I feel like I’m flogging a dead horse here a little, but there are still some interesting posts being written on some of the issues arising out of Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Quadrant [see past LP posts here]. Most of [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Blogging, blogosphere, Don Arthur, Ethics, hoax, Jason Wilson, journalism, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, media studies, political blogging, Quadrant, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 17, 2009
There’s an interesting debate proceeding on a post by Jason Wilson at gatewatching on Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant [previous LP posts here]. I think there’s some useful clarification of some of the ethical issues in the [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, anti-communism, Cold War, Crikey, Culture Wars, David Marr, Ethics, hoax, Jason Wilson, John Quiggin, Jonathan Green, journalism, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, Media, media studies, political debate, Quadrant, robert manne, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2009
I have a review of Matthew Hindman’s sceptical tome over at Inside Story.
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Elections, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged Activism, Australia, book, comparative politics, internet, Matthew Hindman, political science, political sociology, Politics, review, The Myth of Digital Democracy, USA |
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 |
By Kim on December 19, 2008
End of year reflection on the state of politics and the nation type articles can be interesting. They can be tedious rehashes of trivia and reinventions of an already distorted reality to prove punditarian narratives r us and are ace [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Activism, barack obama, bernard keane, citizen engagement, Climate change, cprs, economic management, emissions trading, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, John Hewson, Kevin Rudd, neoliberalism, political sociology, Politics, public policy, reserve bank, Rick Warren, Rudd government, US election 2008, white paper, year in review |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 16, 2008
A partial wrap of the protests over the weekend. Coverage of the Brisbane rally is at Nocensorship.info, and Skribe has uploaded a citizen journalism video report of the Perth event to YouTube: Please feel free to add links or reports [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Perth, The Web | Tagged Activism, Brisbane, citizen journalism, Essential Research, internet censorship, no clean feed, Perth, polling, protest, rally, Rudd government, stephen conroy |
By Kim on December 11, 2008
Amnesty International has released a video – You Are Powerful – to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UDHR. They’re encouraging its widest possible distribution. Kate Allen explains at Comment is Free. The level of controversy that still surrounds not [...]
Posted in Activism, History, Law, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged Activism, Amnesty International, andrew bartlett, bill of rights, charter of rights, common law, Frank Brennan, human rights, John Howard, jurisprudence, political philosophy, Rudd government, UDHR, United Nations, universal declaration of human rights |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 10, 2008
[Via Public Polity] There’s a rally protesting the Clean Feed internet censorship plan in Brisbane Square on Saturday from 11am to 3pm. I support the cause, but I won’t be there. I’m aware of three other protest rallies and marches [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Brisbane, The Web | Tagged Activism, Brisbane, heat, internet censorship, no clean feed, protest, rally, Rudd government, stephen conroy, summer, tactics, weather |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3004965364_03e56ac41f.jpg" Image of spontaneous street celebrations in Harlem courtesy of matt semel at flickr – reproduced under a Creative Commons licence. No doubt one of the big stories about the US election will be the influence of the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Elections, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Activism, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, Media, netroots, online media, participatory democracy, political blogging, political sociology, psephology, punditariat, Sociology, sociology of media, Technology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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