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 doing on election coverage in regional areas. It’s here (though paywalled, unfortunately.) Second – I …
Month: November 2010
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 at the National Press Club dais from the directors of the last election campaign: In …
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 from, say, the manifestly spurious claims of bias that crop up about sites like The …
Just reproducing here a call for papers/EOIs for a collection I’m putting together with Melissa Gregg and Sue Turnbull. Love to hear from anyone who’d like to write something for it – whether you’re in academia, industry or elsewhere. Call for chapters and expressions of interest Underbelly: A Critical Companion Edited by Melissa Gregg, Sue …