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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 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 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 Mark Bahnisch on December 30, 2008
At Ambit Gambit, Graham Young riffs off a comment made by Jay Rosen on Twitter: You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is “safety first” reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens.” [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, cultural studies, Graham Young, Jay Rosen, Media, motivations, political blogging, political blogosphere, Sociology, user generated content |
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 Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
It’s sad to read that Tim Dunlop is closing down The Road to Surfdom, one of the original Australian political blogs, and one that’s been a great contributor to commentary and discussion over a sustained period of time. It’s not [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged australian media, Blogging, blogosphere, business model, citizen journalism, independent media, journalism, Media, political blogging, Road to Surfdom, Sociology, tim dunlop |
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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 14, 2008
As noted here and here, I attended the Walkley Foundation’s Future of Journalism event in Brisbane yesterday. Courtesy of the lovely folks at the ABC, the sessions were all recorded and will be viewable online, so that absolves me from [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged australian media, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, creative economy, cultural studies, fairfax sackings, future of journalism, future of journalism brisbane, future of media, future of newspapers, journalism, journalists strike, MEAA, media analysis, media commentary, media ownership, media studies, Mike Carlton, News Limited, News Limited columnists, professional identities, public sphere, punditariat, quality journalism, Sociology, sociology of blogging, sociology of media, sociology of professions, sociology of work, Walkley Foundation, workplace restructuring |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 4, 2008
I was going to write a post last night about the demos in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention and the extraordinary levels of repression and police violence, but tiredness got the better of me. But never mind, tigtog’s been [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Photography, USA | Tagged american election 2008, blogosphere, citizen journalism, civil liberties, freedom of speech, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Lindsay Beyerstein, photojournalism, police violence, political blogging, poor people's march, protest march, protests, Republican National Convention, state repression, US election 2008 |
The future of journalism – or its vanishing present
By Mark Bahnisch on September 23, 2008
As a supplement to my post on the Walkley Foundation Future of Journalism event I recently spoke at in Brisbane, here’s a link to the thoughts of my colleague and co-panelist Axel Bruns.
Posted in Media, Sociology | Tagged australian media, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, creative economy, cultural studies, fairfax sackings, future of journalism, future of journalism brisbane, future of media, future of newspapers, journalism, journalism education, MEAA, media analysis, media commentary, media ownership, media studies, professional identities, public sphere, punditariat, quality journalism, Sociology, sociology of blogging, sociology of media, sociology of professions, sociology of work, Walkley Foundation, workplace restructuring | Leave a response