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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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 16, 2009
A lot of the most reliable data on web use and social media comes from the World Internet Project. Most of the findings from the project derive from rigorous quantitative research, and unlike a lot of what purports to be [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged business models, content creation, cultural studies, Culture, Economics, everyday life, facebook, fairfax, future of journalism, future of media, internet, jeffrey cole, lived experience, margaret simons, myspace, newspapers, print journalism, science and technology studies, social media, social networking, social uses of technology, Sociology, swinburne university, user generated content, web, web 2.0, world internet project |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2009
On Line Opinion has been featuring pieces on the internet and everyday life throughout August. My contribution, published today, examines some questions about the social and cultural implications of new media technologies, and in the process, busts some myths about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Education, Language, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Blogging, cultural studies, cyberculture, digital age, digital culture, digital literacy, internet, internet studies, Mark Bahnisch, New communications technologies, new media, On Line Opinion, Queensland Writers Centre, Science, social media, Sociology, Technology, web 2.0, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
One of the most interesting teaching assignments I’ve had for a while is tutoring in a course in New Communications Technologies offered through the School of Humanities at Griffith. Some of the class discussions we’ve had so far this semester [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Language, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged cultural studies, dedifferentiation, digital natives, distributed cognition, employers, facebook, Facebook privacy, figurational sociology, Griffith University, historical sociology, human rights, informalisation, Law, Legal Eagle, Melissa Gregg, modernity, New communications technologies, New Communications Technology, Norbert Elias, personality, privacy, recruitment, School of Humanities, self, skepticlawyer, social media, Sociology, subjectivity, Sydney University, web 2.0, workplace rights |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 29, 2009
I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre: Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Notices, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, digital culture, event, future of books, lecture, literacy, Mark Bahnisch, publishing, Queensland Writers Centre, QUT, QWC, reading, Sociology, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Kim on July 13, 2009
As observed here: Only 10 songs on the hottest 100 list were made by a band who had any women in it, ever (if we include Massive Attack, who, technically, only ever had female guest vocalists); the highest of these [...]
Posted in Culture, Masculinity, Media, Music, Sociology, Women | Tagged abc, cultural studies, female artists, gender, hottest 100, JJJ, Music, popular music, public broadcasting, radio, rock, Sociology, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 30, 2009
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Music, Sociology | Tagged age, Andrew Leigh, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, creativity, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, David Galenson, Degas, Economics, economists, Edward Said, generations, innovation, literature, Munch, Music, On Late Style, Picasso, Sociology, Wassily Kandinsky |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 19, 2009
One recent-ish article I missed in Wired but had a vague awareness of from discussion elsewhere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on the new socialism and digital collectivism. It struck me as very curious that the libertarian tinged techno-utopians at Wired [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, International, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged collectivism, cultural studies, digital culture, inequality, Kevin Kelly, research, rhetoric, socialism, Sociology, techno-utopianism, utopia, web, Whole Earth Catalog, Wired |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 2, 2009
I might have mentioned in passing here, and I know I’ve said on Facebook, that I’ve become interested lately in exploring some themes which don’t really seem to fit into the LP space, and also in a more personal form [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Feminism, Life, Masculinity, Media, Religion, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged Angelus Novus, atheism, Blogging, blogosphere, Brisbane, BrisCulture, Catholicism, Creative Brisbane, cultural studies, Feminism, gender relations, Larvatus prodeo, LP, Mark Bahnisch, masculinism, online, place, radical catholicism, Religion, social, Sociology, spirituality, St Mary's South Brisbane, Urbanism, web 2.0, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 29, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/death_and_taxes.jpg" The latest issue of the Centre for Policy Development‘s online mag, Insight, is out, and ‘Taxation for Our Times’ focuses on the Henry Review. I make no claims to any expertise in the technical aspects of taxation policy, [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Amartya Sen, Australia, capacities, Centre for Policy Development, collectivism, CPD, cultural studies, Economics, Henry review, History, ideology, insight, Ken Henry, liberalism, political culture, Politics, Rudd government, Sociology, statism, tax, taxation policy |
The media, social media and the Liberal thrills and spills
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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