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By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
Of late, there’s been something of an upsurge of bad news about the news, prompted probably by the coincidence in the acceleration in the decline of newspaper business models under the pressure of the global financial crisis and the upsurge [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged audiences, Bachratz, Baratz, decline, editors, global financial crisis, Jay Rosen, journalism, Media, media studies, new media, newspapers, non-decision making, non-decisions, pluralism, political science, power, Sociology, sociology of culture |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 16, 2008
Bruce Moore’s new book, Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian Language got a fair bit more press coverage – in the news pages as opposed to the reviews sections – than is usual for a tome authored by an [...]
Posted in Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Education, History, Imperialism, Language, Media, Nationalism | Tagged Australian accent, Australian English, Australian history, Book review, Bruce Moore, cultural studies, Language, linguistics, post-colonial cultures, social linguistics, Sociology, sociology of culture, Speaking Our Langage, vernacular culture, Writings |
By Kim on September 26, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/20070801_jinnan_texting.jpg" align=left Hot on the heels of lexicographer Erin McKean’s advice that if it feels wordish, use it, here comes some more legitimation for linguistic innovation. The well known author and linguist, David Crystal, has published a new book [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Language, Sociology, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, David Crystal, education policy, education wars, Language, linguistics, literacy, sms speak, Sociology, sociology of culture, spelling, spelling variants, text messages, texting, txtng, Writings |
By Kim on September 9, 2008
Never let it be said that this blog lets a good idea from its commenters go to waste. Even when that good idea emerges in response to a monotonous manifestation of the enormous ego of one of the blogosphere’s most [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, History, Lesbian and Gay, Life, Relationships, Sexuality, Sociology | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, cultural sociology, cultural studies, David Lynch, Elina Löwensohn, Film, film cultures, history of film, Hollywood, lesbian vampires, mass culture, mass media, media effects theory, Michael Almareyda, Nadja, pop culture, sociology of culture, sociology of love, sociology of romance |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mark-davis.jpg" align=left At one stage, having read a lecture by Mark Davis in Overland, I thought his new book was going to be an update of Gangland. I’ve just started reading The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [...]
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Australian culture, Australian history, Australian nationalism, Australian studies, battle of ideas, Book review, Culture Wars, egalitarianism, fair go, Gangland, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Mark Davis, Melbourne University Press, neoliberalism, Nettie Palmer, political culture, political ideologies, politics & government, Rudd government, social democracy, sociology of culture, The Land of Plenty, Writings |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/facade_i_by_phenomenologist.jpg" Photo credit: me. A larger version of the image can be seen here by clicking on full view once inside the gallery. The latest issue of Griffith REVIEW – Hidden Queensland – touches on a number of subjects [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, History, Life, Media, Photography, Queensland, Urbanism | Tagged 1980s Brisbane, ALP, Book review, Brisbane Writers Festival, Busted, Disruptive Influences, Edwina Shaw, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Goss government, Griffith REVIEW, Griffith REVIEW events, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Julianne Schultz, Kevin Rudd, Labor, magazine review, Melbourne Writers Festival, Peter Beattie, political culture, Queensland culture, Queensland history, Queensland politics, Raymond Evans, small magazines, Sociology, sociology of culture, urban sociology, Wayne Goss, writings Hidden Queensland |
By Kim on August 21, 2008
There was an interesting discussion on this post on the whole “what is different about blogs and MSM “blogs” theme” with George Megalogenis recently. I generally agree with those who argued that whatever takes place on the bulletin boards of [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, Levity, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged blog moderation, bloggers, Blogging, blogging practice, blogosphere, communication, cultural studies, Jurgen Habermas, media and society, new media, News Limited columnists, political journalism, professionalism, public sphere, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of media, status, virtual community, Writings |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 21, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/new_farm_houses_v_by_phenomenologist.jpg" align=left I’m not sure where it came from, but there’s been a bit of praise for the suburbs around the joint lately, and dissing of the dissers of the suburbs. Age columnist Shaun Carney attracted a bit of [...]
Posted in Australiana, Brisbane, Climate change, Culture, History, Life, Media, Melbourne, Politics, Sociology, Sydney, Urbanism | Tagged ALP, Brisbane culture, Brisbane history, climate change policy, creative cities, creative industries, Creative Industries Faculty, creative suburbia, cultural studies, Culture Wars, inner city culture, Labor, latte left, political demographics, Queensland architecture, QUT, Rudd government, service industries, Sociology, sociology of culture, sub-tropical climate, suburban culture, suburbia, urban development, urban sociology, urban topology |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2008
One of the rather egregious questions on last week’s Q&A asked the panel to comment on why there was no contemporary political fiction of the stature of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s. As with a lot of the queries posed on Q&A, it’s [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged ABC tv, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Australian literary fiction, Australian writers, Blogging, cultural studies, culture and taste, fantasy, Jeff VanderMeer, political fiction, Q&A, Qanda, science fiction, social class, Sociology, sociology of culture, Television, writers, Writings |
Muting a generation
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism | 18 Responses