Security and Violence: Risk and the Potential for Violence
The ugly scenes of Australian PM Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott being whisked away has certainly captured the attention of journalists and commentators. I don’t have much to add to Ben...
View ArticleJay Rosen, Engagement and News: Turning Parliament into a Cooking Show
EDIT 22/02/12: Annabel Crabb has a new show on the ABC: Kitchen Cabinet. Blurb from the show’s ‘About’ page: A half-hour entertainment series that serves up a delectable combination of political...
View ArticleWorking paper seminar series
Below is the title and abstract of a paper I shall be presenting this Friday as part of our working papers seminar series. It is based on about the first third/half of a paper I am trying to finish...
View ArticleThe Map is the Territory
Mel has a very interesting work in progress paper up on her blog on “The territory of the post-professional“. We sometimes share very similar research interests. I’ve also looked at questions of...
View ArticleWalkleys Conference Notes — Google and New York Times presentations
From my iPhone, WordPress backend interface a bit tricky! Google Australia Communications and Public Affairs Manager Johnny Luu presents Google 101 for Journalists, covering tips and tricks for using...
View ArticleDinner text
Friends texting each other about dinner. Got me thinking condiments and their status as objects. it made me realise the dinner as a differential repetition of the event ‘to eat’ (also ‘to transduct’)...
View ArticleDrones in the Cloud: Attending to Snapchat
I don’t know enough about you To be kind, to be kind to you Don’t you even think about me – Cymbals, “The Natural World” The Cymbals’ electro-pop lament of unrequited attention (‘love’) has the same...
View ArticleEducation and Cluster Funded Explanations
The way fields of knowledge are split into teaching and research clusters in higher education in Australia is confusing . We have Field of Research codes through which we align our research outputs...
View ArticleNieman Lab 2015 Predictions for Journalism
Last week I delivered the first lecture in our Introduction to Journalism unit. I am building on the material that my colleague, Caroline Fisher, developed in 2014. One of the things about teaching...
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