By Anna Winter on August 14, 2011
SlutWalk seeks to address the idea that a woman’s behaviour in one sphere of life should have no bearing on how she is judged in other spheres
Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, Language, Perth, Sexuality, Women | Tagged Crime, Culture Wars, gender & equality, Law, prostitution, sex, slutwalk |
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 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 1, 2009
Folks might recall some discussion about the law of defamation when the spurious photos alleged wrongly to be of Pauline Hanson were published during the Queensland election campaign. As promised, Legal Eagle and Skepticlawyer have put together a guide to [...]
Posted in Ethics, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, defamation, Ethics, Law, malice, Pauline Hanson, Speech |
By Robert Merkel on September 25, 2008
According to The Guardian, the British government is apparently proposing to revise the Act of Settlement, which governs succession to the British throne. In essence, the proposal seeks to remove the primacy of male heirs over female ones. Secondly, it [...]
Posted in Australiana, International, Law | Tagged act of settlement, Law, line of succession, monarchy, queen elizabeth II, republicanism |
By Robert Merkel on August 1, 2008
The Clarke inquiry into the Haneef affair has revealed several interesting things. Amongst them is the statement in ASIO’s unclassified submission that they participated in “whole of government” discussions of the possible threat posed by Haneef. As the statement says: [...]
Posted in Government, Politics, Security, Terrorism | Tagged afp, australian federal police, clarke inquiry, haneef inquiry, Law, Mick Keelty, mohammed haneef, politics&govt, robert mclelland, Terrorism, war & conflict |
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