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By Mark Bahnisch on July 26, 2011
It’s time, well past time, that citizens called time on the sort of rubbish that pervades the privatised sphere of the information industries.
Posted in Featured, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged amy winehouse, discourses, helen razer, Jens Stoltenberg, Media, news cycle, norway, public sphere |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 5, 2010
Much more is at stake in the noise around the RSPT than whether the mining industry ends up paying more tax. A whole host of serious public issues entwined with the proposal – including but not limited to the adequacy [...]
Posted in Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged company tax, Henry review, infrastructure, institutions, Media, Miners, narrative, political debate, public sphere, regional economy, resources super profits tax, rspt, shaun carney, superannuation, tax, the drum, tim dunlop, two speed economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 31, 2010
Both the Government and the Coalition are publicly committed to a 5% emissions reduction target. Tony Abbott claims he will get there via ‘direct action’ and avoid the ‘great big new tax on everything’ – his characterisation of Labor’s ETS. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Federal Elections, Media, Politics | Tagged Climate change, climate change policy, complexity, cprs, Department of Climate Change, ets, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, mark latham, messaging, new taxes, political communication, public sphere, scare campaign, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 31, 2010
Over at Gatewatching, Jason Wilson references Andrew Elder’s very good question about the Australian Women’s Weekly being a graveyard for politicians, and asks another good one – given the magazine’s truly huge readership, were Tony Abbott’s comments ill advised? The [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Education, Federal Elections, Feminism, Media, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged andrew bolt, Andrew Elder, education policy, Federal Election 2010, Jason Wilson, Julia Gillard, Media, myschool, political media, Politics, public sphere, Rudd government, Sexuality, Sociology, Tony Abbott, Women's weekly |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
As Obama’s liberal supporters wait uneasily for January 20 to find out whether he really will use his post-partisan stance as a sweetener to implement progressive policy, Crooked Timber blogger and political scientist Henry Farrell has published a rather fascinating [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged barack obama, Blogging, blogosphere, deliberative democracy, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Farrell, internet activism, Jurgen Habermas, new media, partisanship, political blogging, political participation, political science, political sociology, public sphere, social media |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 1, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/746381286_2c6c08ecaa.jpg" Image of the State Library of Victoria from avlxyz at flickr reproduced under a creative commons licence. One thing I used to notice when I used to buy newspapers was that around this time of year “culture” steps [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Government, Media, Policy, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Australian culture, Barry Saunders, citizen journalism, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, e democracy, internet, journalism, margaret simons, media studies, New Matilda, new media, newspapers, openness, Pew Centre, political sociology, public participation, public sphere, sally young, social media, Sociology, State of the Cultural Nation |
By Kim on October 6, 2008
Spring must be the season when people turn their minds to starting blogs, or at least spring 2005 was when some excellent people did. It’s the three year blogiversary for both Pavlov’s Cat and Hoyden About Town. Warm salutations and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Blogging, blogiversary, blogocracy, blogocrats, blogosphere, Christian Kerry, Crikey blogs, Hoyden About Town, loud condemnation, new media, News Limited columnists, Ozblogosphere, Pavlov's Cat, political blogging, public sphere, Sociology, Tim Blair, tim dunlop, trollblogging |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 14, 2008
As noted here and here, I attended the Walkley Foundation’s Future of Journalism event in Brisbane yesterday. Courtesy of the lovely folks at the ABC, the sessions were all recorded and will be viewable online, so that absolves me from [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged australian media, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, creative economy, cultural studies, fairfax sackings, future of journalism, future of journalism brisbane, future of media, future of newspapers, journalism, journalists strike, MEAA, media analysis, media commentary, media ownership, media studies, Mike Carlton, News Limited, News Limited columnists, professional identities, public sphere, punditariat, quality journalism, Sociology, sociology of blogging, sociology of media, sociology of professions, sociology of work, Walkley Foundation, workplace restructuring |
The Liberals, women and the Mad Monk
By Kim on July 9, 2009
Pavlov’s Cat made a very incisive comment here recently, apropos of the silly push for Tony Abbott to be leader of the Liberal Party (which seems to have disappeared ever since Malcolm got ‘back on the front foot’, ‘muscled up’, [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls, Women | Tagged commentators, gender, Glenn Milne, Kevin Rudd, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll News Limited, Pavlov's Cat, political behaviour, political sociology, Politics, Polls, popularity, possum, press gallery, psephology, public sphere, Sociology, Tony Abbott, voters, voting, Women | 79 Responses