… it’s a timely reminder that now is the time to make your opinion count in terms of the latest Australian films that are contenders for awards. For those concerned with social justice and media representations of marginalised groups, it’s an excellent opportunity to vote up films with diverse and inclusive casts and storylines.
media
old, new, social, global, cross platforms etc.
It’s Feminist Defence of Palin Time again
Which means it must be just about time for a US Congressional election. Yup, here come those midterms. So people are going to start talking to and about Sarah Palin again. Great.
Day 10 of the hung parliament: media chasing its tail
There’s hardly anybody in the MSM writing anything worth reading about the current situation, because there is nothing to do but wait until 3 men who don’t give a toss about Big Media make their minds up in their own sweet time (as they should).
How to wrangle a new paradigm
I’m particularly intrigued by the growing hysteria echoing out of Murdoch’s media outlets. Dealing with independents who aren’t pavlovian in their response to the media’s narratives must come as something of a shock.
7-point plan submitted: where to now? #auswaits
I’m vastly amused by how outraged some of the punditocracy appear to be that the markets didn’t run around like headless chooks on Monday, after the pundits predicted that they would and should take a tumble because of the dreaded “instability” of such a terribly unprecedented thing as a hung parliament. Dearie me.
Cutting through the 24/7 news cycle / soundbite culture
to recast election campaign news coverage away from the horse-race and inside-baseball paradigms that currently masquerade as informing the public
When your advertisers leave in droves, that’s not an abridgement of your free speech rights
Something which most junior high schoolers could tell you straight out of their civics textbook, “Dr Laura”
Imagine no campaign press buses
How would campaigns and campaign coverage be different if a law was passed saying that no party could provide a campaign bus for the press, that journalists would have to make their own way to cover a campaign itinerary stop, assuming that the itinerary as outlined looked sufficiently newsworthy to them and/or their editors?
Politics on Youtube
This is a whole new side to political advertising. Are these sort of leader parodies available to the Liberals, Greens, and other parties or would the backlash be too great? Discuss.
A Tiny Bright Spot
This has been a pretty damn depressing election campaign for all of us, I think. It’s been filled with bigotry and gossip about ALP internal politics, and there’s been very little analysis of policy or what either major party is… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 