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By tigtog on November 5, 2009
Marcus Westbury’s column for The Age has been exploring some really interesting topics in cultural policy. His most recent column is one of his best. Now posted on his blog, the article examines the relative responses of the ABC and the [...]
Posted in Culture, Howardia, Media | Tagged arts, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, cultural policy, Culture, digital culture, digital literacy, Marcus Westbury, politics and culture, refugees |
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 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 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 February 12, 2009
<img src='http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/9781408701133.jpg' align=left There’s obviously a perception in the publishing and bookselling industries that James Harkin’s Cyburbia is going to sell well – as you can barely walk into a bookstore at the moment without falling over it. The subtitle [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Science, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Book review, Charlie Gere, cultural studies, Culture, cybernetics, Cyburbia, digital culture, facebook, History, information theory, internet, James Harkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, N. Katherine Hayles, Norbert Weiner, social media, social network theory, social networking, Sociology, Technology, web |
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