By Mark Bahnisch on March 5, 2010
The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Ethics, Feminism, Life, Media, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Anna Bligh, censorship, child protection, children, Colin Jacobs, content, content management, electronic frontiers australia, elliott fletcher, facebook, freedom of speech, groups, high school, internet, Kevin Rudd, Media, moderation, moral panic, murder, nick xenophon, ombudsman, Ombudsperson, online, privacy, public debate, publishing, racism, sexism, social media, social networking, tribute sights, trinity bates |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 9, 2009
Rupert Murdoch on Sky News: Make of it what you will. It seems pretty incoherent to me. I think Cory Doctorow’s pretty much right – these musings are fantasies, and his editors are going to have a horrible time trying [...]
Posted in Markets, Media, The Web | Tagged business model, content, Cory Doctorow, fair use, future of media, google, Media, News Limited, paywall, Rupert Murdoch, search, Sky News, social media, web, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 15, 2009
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has created quite the stir with his A. N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Melbourne last night. Scott took a pot shot at Rupert Murdoch, characterising him as a “frantic emperor”. Decline and fall of old [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Markets, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged abc, content, future of journalism, future of media, margaret simons, mark scott, Markets, Media, new media, News Limited, online media, public broadcasting, Rupert Murdoch, social media, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 11, 2009
Rupert Murdoch has stepped up his rhetoric about the evils of new media at a shindig in that bastion of press freedom, China. You can read all about it at Derek Barry’s Woolly Days. The sheer onion-ness of President Obama’s [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, International, Media, The Web | Tagged associated press, China, content, Derek Barry, future of media, google, Hu Jintao, internet, journalism, Media, media ownership, press freedom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, web 2.0, world media summit |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2009
At New Matilda, Jason Wilson takes on the prevailing wisdom about the News Limited paywall plans: The notion that News Corp’s proposed paywall “won’t work” is in danger of becoming common sense. The problem with this is that, on the [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Markets, Media, The Web | Tagged audiences, business models, content, future of media, internet, Jason Wilson, journalism, Media, New Matilda, News Limited, online, pay tv, paywall, print, Rupert Murdoch, web 2.0 |
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