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By Kim on August 17, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the House of Commons in the aftermath of the English riots set the tone for a bizarre crackdown: Responsibility for crime always lies with the criminal. But crime has a context. And we [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Europe, Featured, International, Law, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Axel bruns, benefits, Blackberry, Boris Johnson, civil disorder, Conservative Party, crackdown, criminal justice, David Cameron, evictions, facebook, Guy Rundle, law and order, London, london burning, Noel Pearson, Owen Hatherley, Race, riots, riots aftermath, sentencing, social exclusion, social housing, social media, social theory, Sociology, Tories, twitter, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2010
Malcolm Farnsworth has an excellent piece at The Drum on how claims that the 2010 federal election was going to be a Twitter campaign are very wide of the mark. I’d recommend reading the whole thing. If the premise is [...]
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Culture, Elections, federal election 2010, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged #ausvotes, #qt, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, citizen journalism, Elections, jean burgess, malcolm farnsworth, online publics, Politics, Qanda, QUT, social media, Sociology, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on June 16, 2009
In the wake of the strange anti-analytical spray from Christian Kerr in The Australian against blogs yesterday (discussed here), my QUT colleague Axel Bruns has posted a comprehensive analysis of his rant: Amongst the standard-issue ammunition in the journalism industry’s [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged analysis, Axel bruns, blogosphere, Christian Kerr, cultural sociology, David Penberthy, future of journalism, future of media, Guy Rundle, journalism, Media, media studies, News Limited, Sociology, The Australian, The Punch |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Kim on December 22, 2008
Anyone wanting an update on how the federal government’s adventures into the wilds of citizen consultation via blogs [at the Digital Economy Blog hosted under the auspices of DBCDE] are going could do a lot worse than read these two [...]
Posted in Blogging, Government | Tagged Axel bruns, Blogging, citizen consultation, DBCDE, digital economy blog, Gatewatching, glogging, glogs, government blog, Lindsay Tanner, Lyn Calcutt, open government, Rudd government, stephen conroy |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 11, 2008
As Kim mentioned the other day, the Future of Journalism roadshow is coming to Brisbane on Saturday, and I’m speaking on a panel at 2pm called “Bloggers: amateur netizens or professionals of the future?”… Full details of the program are [...]
Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Media, Notices, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Axel bruns, Blogging, blogosphere, cultural studies, fairfax sackings, future of journalism, future of media, margaret simons, mark day, MEAA, media studies, MSM blogs, News Limited blogs, political blogging, public sphere, quality journalism, Sociology, sociology of media, sociology of work, Walkley Foundation |
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By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Robb, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Blogging, blogs, Canberra, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Copenhagen, cprs, Crikey, cultural studies, ets, facebook, future of journalism, future of media, Gatewatching, hyperlinks, Imre Salusinszky, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Lateline, Laura Tingle, legacy media, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, link economy, links, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, media discourses, nathan rees, New Matilda, new media, Nick Minchin, Peter Van Onselen, public, public opinion, publics, Rudd government, social media, social sharing, Sociology, spill, Stephen Fenely, tweeting, twitter | 27 Responses