By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2010
The Financial Review yesterday featured a story on page one revealing that the proposal for a Citizens Assembly came as an absolute surprise to Cabinet Ministers. Cabinet had reportedly had a very long and broad discussion on climate change, where [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010 | Tagged citizens assembly, Climate change, Federal Election 2010, Financial Review, identity, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leak, leaker, Policy |
By Guest Poster on July 27, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Posted in Australiana, federal election 2010, Foreign policy, Immigration, International, War | Tagged Afghanistan, asylum seekers, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Foreign policy, human rights, identity, leaders debate, phil lynch, Thinking Points, Timor, UN Security Council, values, War |
By Kim on May 16, 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban the Burqa. The French National Assembly looks set to agree. Despite all the blah about ‘Western values’, women in the West also have issues with compulsory sexualised visibility. The claim that this regulation of dress [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Fashion, Feminism, International, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Women | Tagged ban, burqa, choice, Feminism, France, identity, Islam, Liz Conor, National Assembly, Nicolas Sarkozy, secularism, sexualisation, values, visibility, West, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
The biggest story in social media over the last couple of months has been the rapid decline in trust between Facebook and its users. Far from being a phenomenon restricted to techie activists, Facebook’s campaign to push an ever increasing [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Creativity, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, Capitalism, commodification, commons, communicatins, danah boyd, data, dialectic, facebook, functionality, Henry Farrell, identity, internet, Jason calacanis, jeff jarvis, Kieran Healy, Labour, libertarianism, Mark Zuckerberg, monetisation, open source, partner sites, privacy, privatisation, publics, regulation, search engines, settings, social media, social networking, socialism, sociality, Sociology, trust, user generated content, web, Wired |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
Intriguing to see that Malcolm Turnbull is about the only Australian political figure who’s put Prince William’s visit into some sort of political context. Writing in The Times, the erstwhile Liberal leader puts his finger on a conception of Australian [...]
Posted in Australiana, Nationalism, Politics | Tagged Australia Day, Howardia, identity, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationalism, Prince William, Republic, republicanism, Rudd government, Times |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, anonymity, attack speech, blogger, Blogging, blogs, commenters, comments, defamation, google, hate speech, identity, Jason Wilson, Law, libel, Liskula Cohen, Media, vilification, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 13, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/morgan.jpg" align=left The latest entry in an occasional series on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. A little while ago, I was having a friendly disagreement on Facebook about the merits of Bruce Sterling‘s science fiction, touching on his expertise [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Imperialism, Politics, Sociology, Technology, War | Tagged Altered Carbon, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, Broken Angels, Bruce Sterling, consciousness, corporatism, cultural studies, cyberpunk, genre fiction, identity, John Pilger, literary studies, Noam Chomsky, noir, personality, Politics, Pulp Fiction, review, Richard K. Morgan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, Sociology, speculative fiction, subjectivity, Takeshi Kovacs, transhumanism, War, Writers & Writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 16, 2009
Judging by some conversations I was having this morning, and some buzz on FB over the weekend, a lot of folk are starting to focus on the reality of what Queensland will be if the LNP wins government. No doubt [...]
Posted in Australiana, Brisbane, Culture, Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Urbanism | Tagged Brisbane, creative industries, Culture, federalism, identity, Jason Wilson, knowledge workers, New Matilda, North Queensland, Politics, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, Sociology |
Anonymity, blog commenting and defamation
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, anonymity, attack speech, blogger, Blogging, blogs, commenters, comments, defamation, google, hate speech, identity, Jason Wilson, Law, libel, Liskula Cohen, Media, vilification, web 2.0 | 33 Responses