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Government: Don't feed the trolls

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 | 24 Responses

Always on: the internet, social media, communications and everyday life

By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008

<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/large_0212-sleep.jpg" align=left In doing a bit of reading for a couple of courses I’m teaching this semester, I was struck recently by the concision with which Mark Deuze pings how mediated so many aspects of our everyday lives now [...]

Posted in Blogging, Consumerism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, History, Life, Media, Music, Parenting, Relationships, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged creative industries, cultural studies, entertainment platforms, Mark Deuze, media and everyday life, media beatups, moral panic, QUT, social media, social network, Sociology, sociology of culture, technology and society, Zygmunt Bauman | 12 Responses

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