Category: political communication
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Reflecting on Julian Assange: Internet activism and the fight for transparency
I first became aware of Julian Assange in the book Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfus 1997. I heard a reading of the book in an Internet Café on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Assange was the character Mendax in the book, although it was not widely known then…
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Gov Hack: What party am I?
This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…
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The Open Victoria Project: Open-Government Widgets for Enhanced Citizen-Government Dialogue
This is a project I am trying to develop. It is a proposal for a small prototype project. Any takers? Synopsis The Open Victoria Project will investigate and improve access to online Victorian State Government knowledge bases in a high-capacity broadband era. The project will repurpose and make available a set of portable generic widget…
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Political Issue Analysis System
The report from the project is available (here). And have fun with the prototype (click on the image below). The Internet is recognised as a vital component of our political information systems. Although extensively used by governments and civil society groups, its effects on political processes, particularly deliberative political processes, remain relatively unknown. Emerging research…
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White Paper: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS)
Here is a paper that I co-authored for the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) here at the University of Melbourne. The Political Issues Analysis System (PIAS) project sought to investigate how citizens in Melbourne, Australia used the Internet to seek political information about key political issues. It also sought to understand how citizens contacted…
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Why free is good for everyone…
” 20 years ago, set the agenda for far-reaching transformations in the political sphere, in economies everywhere, in social interaction, even in concepts of our own identity. And Berners-Lee succeeded in doing so for one reason: he released the technology for free. This simple decision, taken by a computer scientist used to work in environments…