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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 Mark Bahnisch on January 22, 2010
There’s been some discussion on the ABC’s decision to introduce a 24 hour news channel on a related thread, and it deserves consideration in its own right. Mark Scott’s announcement was accompanied by the now ritualised shots across the bow [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged abc, Crikey, digital tv, future of journalism, Jason Wilson, margaret simons, mark scott, Media, New Matilda, news, news channel, News Limited, public broadcasting, Sky News, user generated content |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 16, 2009
A lot of the most reliable data on web use and social media comes from the World Internet Project. Most of the findings from the project derive from rigorous quantitative research, and unlike a lot of what purports to be [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged business models, content creation, cultural studies, Culture, Economics, everyday life, facebook, fairfax, future of journalism, future of media, internet, jeffrey cole, lived experience, margaret simons, myspace, newspapers, print journalism, science and technology studies, social media, social networking, social uses of technology, Sociology, swinburne university, user generated content, web, web 2.0, world internet project |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2009
<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. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged action movies, audiences, canon, cinema, content creation, creative industries, cultural economics, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, culture industries, David and Margaret, Doomsday, dvd, Fenella Kernebone, Film, film criticism, IMDB, internet, John Howkins, marketing, Media, movies, new media, newspapers, post-apocalyptic, print, review, reviewers, reviews, rhona mitra, science fiction, Sociology, user generated content, user reviews, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 6, 2009
Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of editors/columnists/commentatorsminions have been sounding off about the evils of Google as a news aggregator. News Limited is a “content creator”, it’s asserted, and news aggregation is something akin to theft. A few years ago, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged blogosphere, blogs, consumer behaviour, content creation, google, media industry, news aggregators, News Limited, newspapers, online, Rupert Murdoch, user generated content |
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 December 30, 2008
At Ambit Gambit, Graham Young riffs off a comment made by Jay Rosen on Twitter: You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is “safety first” reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens.” [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, cultural studies, Graham Young, Jay Rosen, Media, motivations, political blogging, political blogosphere, Sociology, user generated content |
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 |
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