Category Archives: Politics
Menzies House’s campaigns against Aboriginal Australians.
What do these two Menzies House campaigns have in common? It’s not support for the principles around freedom of political expression. Menzies House only extends that support to Bolt. It’s not about demanding that limits be placed on political action … Continue reading
Iain Dale’s whinge about Australia’s Parliament
Prominent British political blogger Iain Dale is visiting our country at the moment, and he’s had a piece published on the BBC’s website about our national Parliament’s Question Time. Dale notes that Question Time here is a much rowdier affair … Continue reading
Playing with politics
Another paper-spruiking post. Playing with politics (PDF download) is a reasonably final draft of a paper that will be appearing in a special issue of Convergence later this year. The special issue is about mobile media and mobile games, so … Continue reading
Sunrise to Sunset
Hello, blog, it’s been awhile. I’ll dispense with the reflex apologies, and just say that it’s been a busy semester with two unit coordinations and the new role of Convenor of journalism at UC. Yes, yes #firstworldproblems. Anyway, I have … Continue reading
Me at The Drum on The Drum.
Got a piece over at the Drum this morning, which goes over some stuff I’ve raised here earlier: Is the ABC illegitimately competing with commercial media outlets by offering online opinion with its online offerings? This is a separate question … Continue reading
Another reading post…
Busy, busy at semester’s end – a reading post will have to do for this week. Re-reading something that seemed poignant in the light of the US mid-terms, and to a lesser extent Labor’s current soul-searching and the bizarre turns … Continue reading
Some writing.
Just a couple of research related things that I thought blog readers might find interesting. First – I had a piece in Crikey today using Leximancer to crunch election coverage. The piece runs exactly parallel with some research I’m currently … Continue reading
A good start
Quelle surprise – today brought a Twitter-baiting editorial from The Australian (link intentionally omitted): TWITTER has become the dunny-door graffiti of the digital age, adding precisely nothing to the sum of human knowledge. This week, as always, unattributed commentary scrolled … Continue reading
Clippings from my reading
I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading in preparation for a long essay on you know what. A couple of quotes I thought I’d share by way of a post this week. The first is from James W. Carey’s … Continue reading
Geoff Craig on political interviews.
I’ve moved a fair bit in the last few years. One of the upsides is finding out about what new colleagues are into, research-wise, and UC’s been no execption here. I got an invitation to a seminar on Monday that … Continue reading