Category: political communication
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Google: global search trends
Google has released some of its search results. Releasing results like this is extremely important as it gives citizens access to some of the ‘meta-narratives’ that influence our lives. If large corporation such as Google only have acesss to these ‘meta-narratives’; it means that they can manipulate these trends and patterns to their own advantage…
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Bloggers pan Government’s ‘e-democracy’ bid
Prominent Australian bloggers have lashed the Federal Government over its first attempt at public consultation via a blog, which has already been hijacked by critics of its plan to censor the internet. In a move dubbed “e-democracy”, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner announced this week they would be taking feedback from…
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KevinPM.com.au
(It doesn’t matter what medium; one thing remains true. Assume your audience are idiots!) Dear Craig , As a supporter of the Kevin07 campaign, I wanted you to be the first to hear about my new website: KevinPM.com.au I’ll be using the site to speak frankly with you about the big challenges facing Australia; the…
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Soap Box Project
This project led by Dr Sally Young at the University of Melbourne will be of interest to those who wish to understand the history of political advertising in Australia. Politicians and members of the public would once stand atop a soapbox in order to shout their message across to an audience. Now they use a…