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By Mark Bahnisch on August 4, 2010
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
Posted in Activism, federal election 2010, Politics | Tagged Activism, bernard keane, citizenship, Crikey, Federal Election 2010, Mark Bahnisch, Media, Politics, reform, the drum |
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 September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism |
Muting a generation
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism | 18 Responses