Democratise or die: the future of the ALP
One of the ironies of the British election, as I noted at the time, was that a campaign and a result which seemed to portend an end to politics as usual brought forth a reactionary result – the coalescence of [...]
LP on Twitter
Yes, LP is now Twittering. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. Heck you can’t avoid it now that it’s become the favourite plaything of the mainstream media. In fact it appears whole conferences are dedicated to Twitter – participants seemingly [...]
Facebook vs Twitter? It's the wrong question
One of the sharpest sociological observers of social media on the block, danah boyd, has written a cracker of a post at apophenia pointing out that people actually tend to use Facebook status updates and Twitter for different purposes, and [...]
Of media empires and public broadcasters
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has created quite the stir with his A. N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Melbourne last night. Scott took a pot shot at Rupert Murdoch, characterising him as a “frantic emperor”. Decline and fall of old [...]
Did Facebook kill the blogging star?
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 [...]
Punters pan the dirty diggers pay for play scheme
Yesterday saw another installment in Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to stem the tide of change…..or bend it to his will. Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good [...]
Rudd and Gillard attack News Limited, Hartigan punches back
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
Critical (film) cultures
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doomsday460.jpg" align=left Part of the whole “death of the newspaper” narrative arc (though not the current focus on Google as a supposedly evil aggregator, driven by the commercial interests of news corporations) is the purported death of the critic. [...]
Social networking, Facebook and the myth of presence
I’m not going to comment directly on the Twitter controversy (because I’m not now, and never have been a user), but I think the much complained of “Twitterisation of Facebook” is worth a look. For those of you who haven’t [...]
The media, social media and the Liberal thrills and spills
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
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