By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2010
Malcolm Farnsworth has an excellent piece at The Drum on how claims that the 2010 federal election was going to be a Twitter campaign are very wide of the mark. I’d recommend reading the whole thing. If the premise is [...]
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Culture, Elections, federal election 2010, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged #ausvotes, #qt, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, citizen journalism, Elections, jean burgess, malcolm farnsworth, online publics, Politics, Qanda, QUT, social media, Sociology, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2009
There’s an interesting take in Australian Policy Online from my QUT Creative Industries Faculty colleague, Terry Flew, on the whole question of business models for online news, which has had quite the airing of late. My own view is that [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged business models, celebrity news, Creative Industry Faculty, financial information, future of journalism, future of media, information, journalism, Media, news, online news, publishing, QUT, Rupert Murdoch, shaun carney, Terry Flew, Wall Street Journal, Wired |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 29, 2009
I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre: Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Notices, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, digital culture, event, future of books, lecture, literacy, Mark Bahnisch, publishing, Queensland Writers Centre, QUT, QWC, reading, Sociology, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 5, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jefferson_thumbo87o8686.jpg" align=left Karl Marx’ concept of ‘fictitious capital’ has enjoyed something of a revival recently – in the context of explaining the Global Financial Crisis. It’s interesting to observe [h/t Richard Metzger at Boing Boing] that Marx doesn’t appear [...]
Posted in Culture, Developing world, Economics, Immigration, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, CCi, creative economy, creative industries, economic sociology, economy, Fernand Braudel, fictitious capital, finance capital, financialisation, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, globalisation, Immigration, insecurity, intellectual property, Karl Marx, knowledge economy, labour mobility, neo-liberalism, networks, Paul Keating, QUT, regulation school, Robert Metzger, Robert Reich, services, services economy, social inequality, Sociology, sub prime mortgages, symbolic analysts, Thomas Jefferson, work, world systems theory |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2030886815_ed804cda53.jpg" Image of a PhD dissertation courtesy of raffyd at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. My 2009 began in a very sober mode (if not mood) – today was the deadline for finishing the edit of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Education, Life, Sociology | Tagged authors, Books, Writers & Writing, candidature, dissertation, doctorate, higher degree, humanities, Latin tags, lingua latina, Mark Bahnisch, phd, PhD student, QUT, research student, social science, Sociology, submission, theses, thesis, Virgil, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3153159979_d584827f6d.jpg" Happy New Year 2009 image courtesy of zltgfx at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. There are quite a few cultural constants of New Year’s Eve – fireworks (and the illegal ones in my neck of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Life, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged calendar, choice, confession, Crikey, cultural sociology, cultural studies, freedom, habitus, holidays, individualism, Life, lifeworld, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, michel foucault, new year, new year's resolutions, new years eve, NYE, phenomenology, Pierre Bourdieu, Queensland election 2009, QUT, resolutions, Smart Services CRC, Sociology, strategy, work, work/life balance |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2008
It’s a bit of a hard ask to keep up with all the policy reviews the Rudd government has initiated. And they appear to be in the habit of releasing the results or closing deadlines for submissions well into the [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Policy | Tagged abc, creative industries, digital futures, inquiry, public broadcasting, QUT, review, Rudd government, SBS, stephen conroy, submissions, Terry Flew, user generated content |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
I’m no climatologist, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen storms with as much force as we’ve now experienced in Brisbane and South East Queensland three times in four days, most recently about an hour ago, and [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Climate change, Disasters, Government, Life, Photography, Sociology | Tagged 1974 floods, Anna Bligh, bom, Bremer River, Brisbane, bus station, Campbell Newman, climatology, creative commons, creative industries, dangerous winds, extreme weather, flickr, hail, images, infrastructure, inner city bypass, Ipswich, King George Square, meteorology, natural disaster, New Farm, Paddington, Photography, photos, public transport, QUT, radar, Sociology, South East Queensland, storms, subtropical climate, The Gap, TransApex, TransLink, Transport, tunnels, weather |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 15, 2008
As those folks who are my friends on Facebook are no doubt aware, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at my final seminar on Thursday in the Humanities Program at QUT. That’s a milestone I’m really happy to have reached, [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Education, Life, Sociology, The Web | Tagged book reviews, Books, Writers & Writing, dissertation, fantasy, holiday reading, humanities, locus, phd, QUT, reading, science fiction, seminar, sf blogosphere, Sociology, speculative fiction, thesis, viva, Writers & Writing, zines |
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