By Anna Winter on January 3, 2012
“…what we see in Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring are the results of hundreds of years of evolution in human communication, ideology, and organization.”
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged aristotle, cyborgs, ed milliband, election campaigns, internet, internet memes, personal computers, Technology, Tony Abbott |
By Robert Merkel on December 9, 2011
When I found out that Schloss Merkel was located in the NBN trial site in Brunswick, Victoria, it wasn’t a hard decision to sign up.
Posted in Melbourne, Policy, Technology, The Web | Tagged iiNet, internet, National Broadband Network, NBN, NBNCo, roundtable |
By Kim on September 28, 2010
We really must be in a new paradigm when some people on Twitter end up thinking Sophie Mirabella speaks truly and I find myself feeling some sympathy with Stephen Conroy. But that’s perhaps by the by. I think one of [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Sexuality, Sociology | Tagged censorship, filter, fiona patten, ideology, internet, liberation, Marcus Lockard, Mungo McCallum, Q&A, Qanda, sex, sexualisation, Sexuality, Sociology, Sophie Mirabella, stephen conroy |
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 Kim on May 4, 2010
The Rudd Government has responded to the Gov 2.0 Report it commissioned from a taskforce headed by Nicholas Gruen, who blogs at Club Troppo. I haven’t had a chance yet to have a look at the response, but Stilgherrian has, [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Politics, The Web | Tagged Club Troppo, Crikey, gov 2.0, government 2.0, internet, Nicholas Gruen, open government, Rudd government, Stilgherrian, taskforce, transparency |
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 January 18, 2010
In the wake of Google’s changed stance toward the Chinese government, the company has now raised concerns about the Rudd government’s internet filter. In a piece in Crikey today, Jason Whittaker reported:
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Politics, The Web | Tagged censorship, China, Crikey, filtering, google, implementation, internet, internet filtering, isps, Jason Whittaker, nocleanfeed, Rudd government, stephen conroy, web |
By Phil on January 13, 2010
Google. We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, China, Economics, Ethics, Foreign policy, Government, Law, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Policy, Politics, Security, Technology, Trade | Tagged China, google, internet, search |
By Phil on November 12, 2009
In a quick and dirty post announcing the presence of LP on Twitter I wrote about where I thought mass adoption of the platform was likely to take place. My favourite use for Twitter? Search for breaking news and to [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Consumerism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Levity, Media, Technology, The Web | Tagged abc, internet, jonathan holmes, media watch, New Matilda, pwned, scott bridges, Television |
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 October 9, 2009
It’s interesting to see some realism emerging in the media about the causes of the woes of newspapers and journalism as a profession. I can well recall speaking at a number of professional fora over a couple of years where [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, International, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged crisis, future of journalism, future of media, industrial journalism, internet, journalism, Le Monde Diplomatique, margaret simons, newspapers, print journalism, social media, Sociology, web |
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