in the sunny Caribbean. The technology of social networking is a juvenile prerogative; for an old man to adopt ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

with his “half-baked neo-socialism”, which pandered to the old-fashioned “politics of envy”. Few ... at tarring the fledgling Labor Party with the brush of militant unionism and revolutionary socialism ... for the provision of social goods and public ownership, Menzies would appear as something of a Menshevik in today’s ...

The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

journalist, George Monbiot, recently reproduced some figures to show the effects of this cult on social ... into developing what became the internet), infrastructure and social security. Over the next 30 years, ... these figures can be made to illustrate a great social improvement, or a situation that is better than it would ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-04-27 10:48 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

meeting with the media was a small and very matter-of-fact event, in a small but not fragile body politic. ... paratroops of the Indonesian invasion force landing in Dili’s streets. * Media grilling over, ... garden. The distinction between open and closed, inside and out, light and dark, social and intimate ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The case against Google "The bottom line: People don't trust Google with their data. And that's new. Google is a fundamentally different company than it has been in the past. Its culture ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-23 13:47 - 0 comments

here, is not going to have much of an impact compared with capturing an entire news media. Now you look ... to do it. You have to capture the high ground of what are still the major media, and I think will remain ... of 800 million dollars each year. It is also the media operation where Rupert Murdoch has perfected ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

and archetypal fat cat, Clive Palmer. Intertwined with the media interests of Murdochs senior and junior (see ... social democratic bona fides. Pity he didn't do it two years ago. ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2012-03-01 13:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to social relations – whereas Australia’s media players not long ago were at each other’s throats, now ... of social commentary, [it] is not big,” says a veteran media executive. “There are some voices of dissent – ... of the world’s most powerful media conglomerates walked out on the family business. Lachlan Keith Murdoch, eldest ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The street views Google wasn't expecting you to see (image gallery) Not Editors Choice ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-22 13:50 - 0 comments

The rising influence of vested interests is threatening Australia’s egalitarian social contract. ... relations, seemed very far from the social contract, based on a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work with a decent social safety net for the vulnerable, that had served our nation so well for so long. Today, ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

in sociology or communications or media studies or something of that nature from a red-brick university, ... of Frank Weisel. As politics and the media merged into one indivisible domain, the ‘media-savvy’ Weisels ... if it is not into well-paid jobs with large corporations, including media corporations, it is often into consultancies ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-03-01 11:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Journalism, Social Media, Twitter, The Street) ...

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Google Announces Privacy Changes across Products; Users Can’t Opt Out “Google’s move appears to be aimed squarely at Apple and Facebook – titans of the tech industry that have been successful in keepin ...

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the German Greens): ecological sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy, and peace ... held up in media commentary about the ‘watermelons’ (red on the inside) dragging the Greens leftwards; ... triggered a political firestorm. Hale calls it “a media beat-up”. Ian Cohen says: “It made us look like ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

lost office in part because he made some errors; in part because he made some serious mining and media ... to implement practical social-democratic reform. In contemporary Australia there are at least four great holes in the social welfare state. Families struggling with mental illness or with major disability are cruelly ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

a distinguished panel discusses the contested cyber space of social networking. Panellists include: Baroness Susan ... Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne and Prof Julian Thomas - Director Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University. Presented by Melbourne Conversations, BMW Edge, ...

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a distinguished panel discusses the contested cyber space of social networking. Panellists include: Baroness Susan ... Program in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne and Prof Julian Thomas - Director Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University. Presented by Melbourne Conversations, BMW Edge, ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

People often lament that they don't have time to read fiction. In our social media age, the pressure to stay constantly up to date about current affairs is so demanding that it's no wonder ... of political and social fare for you to enjoy at leisure over the holidays, before the Monthly returns ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2011-12-14 13:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

voices in the media preaching global warming denialism, like Rush Limbaugh in the United States ... played by the mass media . In recent weeks, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford ... States, United Kingdom and Australia, in recent times, the media has played a major role in legitimising ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-12 10:46 - 31 comments - 0 attachments

beach car park by a group of “young men of Middle Eastern appearance”. The media in Sydney, particularly ... him a fine for violating racial vilification codes. Little media incitement was needed. An SMS ... and social theorist Ghassan Hage takes the idea one step further, proposing that what the provocative groups ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2011-03-16 10:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

as a social organiser in Chicago’s all-black South Side; and, then, as a politician – first in the Illinois ... set an example of study, empathic cosmopolitan understanding and social idealism. The rest of his ... registered voters than the majority-white wards. The media and the party heavyweights took notice. Jesse ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-17 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Carnegie, who emerged as the media star of the Gillard government’s tax forum in October with his call ... social set, as he acknowledged: “It’s like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.” But he campaigned ... issued four press releases on the subject. But nobody heard about it. Media Monitors’ Patrick Baume ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

written by the colonisers – those with a financial, political, or social stake in its success.” ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

this year, Paul Keating appeared on the ABC’s Lateline program to discuss politics and the media ... “Imagine a country of about 25 million people, democratic, tolerant, welcoming to immigrants, socially ... Keating has maintained his raging presence in the public mind through selective media appearances. Hawke ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Media ... campaign organiser for the Obama campaign. In this keynote address to the Media140 Oz Politics conference, ... of new media to provide the boost that would eventually be the difference between Obama's campaign ...

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