By Mark Bahnisch on January 17, 2011
My colleague in several incarnations, Dr John Harrison, has a neat post on social capital and the SEQ floods at jmaced: The good thing is that communities with high levels of social capital recover from adverse circumstances faster than those [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Disasters, International, Sociology | Tagged #qldfloods, Anna Bligh, brisbane floods, communications, donations, equality, facebook, giving, Hurricane Katrina, inequality, mentalities, queensland floods, queensland government, Queensland police, social capital, social media, Sociology, trust, tsunami, twitter, volunteering |
By Kim on August 19, 2010
… though although I’m nodding to Robert Frost’s famous poem, read at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, I don’t think Mr Abbott is going without sleep because he has promises to keep: on his own admission, we have leave to doubt [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged campaign, cycling, Federal Election 2010, John Howard, riding, robert frost, sleep, Tony Abbott, trust, truth |
By Kim on June 27, 2010
I admire Julia Gillard and always have. Those who’ve been around here for a long time, and have long memories, might recall that I was backing Gillard enthusiastically when Kim Beazley’s leadership was on its last legs. I welcome and [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Relationships | Tagged agency, ALP, ambition, Anne Summers, Apology, care, Culture, Disasters, Ethics, fear, Federal election 2007, Feminism, first female PM, fluidity, hope, insecurity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor, Labor leadership, liquid lives, Politics, press conference, risk society, second modernity, Shakira Hussein, Sociology, spill, stolen generations, structure, trust, work, workplace, workplace culture |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 16, 2010
In comments on Mr Denmore’s guest post on the interpretation of polls (particularly Newspoll) through the self-referential lens of the ‘media narrative’, I wrote: All quantitative polling tells you only so much, without asking questions about strength of voting intention, [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, bernard keane, Climate change, Coalition, cprs, Crikey, Essential report, Essential Research, ets, Federal Election 2010, issues, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Media, media narrative, Newspoll, party images, Polls, preferences, public opinion, The Greens, Tony Abbott, trust |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 19, 2010
Tony Abbott’s 7.30 Report interview has prompted some bizarre reactions – not least Barnaby Joyce’s particularly unhelpful comments. The Coalition spin appeared to be that Abbott was somehow demonstrating his authenticity and honesty by telling viewers that his word isn’t [...]
Posted in Ethics, Life, Media, Politics, Relationships, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, Barnaby Joyce, Coalition, confessional, CPRS. backdown, Ethics, ets, great big new tax, interview, Jonathan Green, Kerry O'Brien, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, lies, lying, morality, Neil Mitchell, paid parental leave, personal attacks, phoney tony, promises, Still Life With cat, Tony Abbott, trust, truth |
By Kim on May 18, 2010
The full video of the 7 30 report interview can be found here.
Posted in Advertising, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | Tagged 7 30 Report, ALP, Federal Election 2010, gospel tony, gospel truth, lies, phony tony, promises, Tony Abbott, trust |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
The biggest story in social media over the last couple of months has been the rapid decline in trust between Facebook and its users. Far from being a phenomenon restricted to techie activists, Facebook’s campaign to push an ever increasing [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Creativity, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, Capitalism, commodification, commons, communicatins, danah boyd, data, dialectic, facebook, functionality, Henry Farrell, identity, internet, Jason calacanis, jeff jarvis, Kieran Healy, Labour, libertarianism, Mark Zuckerberg, monetisation, open source, partner sites, privacy, privatisation, publics, regulation, search engines, settings, social media, social networking, socialism, sociality, Sociology, trust, user generated content, web, Wired |
By Kim on May 5, 2010
Two articles in the two Fairfax metropolitan papers tell two very different stories about Labor’s backflip/clear the decks strategy. In the SMH, Lenore Taylor has been talking to Labor strategists. The target voters, it’s argued, are those in outer suburban [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, backflips, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Guy Beres, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor strategists, labour movement, modernisation, Polls, public opinion, shaun carney, trust, vision |
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