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Category Archives: Media & Communications
SYN celebrates 10 years of young people on air
SYN Media is a not-for-profit media organisation run by a community of young people, providing training and broadcast opportunities to those aged 12-25. Based on RMIT’s City Campus, the station itself has just celebrated ten years of radio broadcasting. Tahlia Azaria, General Manager and RMIT Alumnus (Bachelor of Communication (Journalism)), spoke to RMIT University about [...]
Also posted in Education, Entertainment, Technology Tagged Australia, community radio, digital, media, Melbourne, radio, RMIT, SYN Leave a comment
Uncivil and unbalanced: the Australian media can’t be trusted to report on industry reform
Anyone who has picked up the country’s biggest newspapers in the past week (and that of course includes the nation’s poll-fearing political powerbrokers) would naturally think communication minister Stephen Conroy’s apparently doomed media reforms presented a serious threat to Australia In the past week the newspapers, lead by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, have put Conroy on [...]
Posted in Media & Communications Tagged ABC, Crikey, Daily Telegraph, journalism, Kim Williams, media reform, News Limited, newspapers, regulation, Stephen Conroy Comments closed
Vigilante hackers are contraindicated
First, an admission. As a research postgraduate I was involved in hacking. A few of us wrote a program called “perve”. Without going into details, perve was able to reconstruct edit buffers in real time so that we were able to see what another user was typing into, say, their word-processor. Why did we do [...]
Also posted in Technology, Uncategorized Tagged Anonymous, Australian radio hosts, Guy Fawkes, hacktivist, King James Hospital, radio Comments closed
Israel, Gaza and the tragic justifications for war
Gaza, ostracised, enclosed and pummelled, is being levelled – again. Israel’s case against Hamas, expressed both via air strikes and a social media war, is one of self-defence. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter affirms that right, one accepted in customary international law. But the comments of the Israeli minister Operation Pillar of Defence [...]
Also posted in Politics, Social Justice, Social Media Tagged gaza, Israel, the west bank, war Comments closed
Porn, manga and the 21st century Japanese man
The generation of men who have come of age in Japan’s twenty-first century society have grown up enveloped in a world of pornography. They are the first generation to have grown up as teenagers with easy and individually-tailored access to hardcore and child pornography in the form of manga comic books and the first to [...]
Also posted in Law, Politics Tagged Chakuero, child pornography, Japan, Japanese government, Japanese men, manga, porn, pornography Comments closed
Anonymous’ Operation Australia – can the federal police stop them?
About 10am this morning, Anonymous used Twitter to announce an attack on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) website. Anonymous claimed the ASIO website would be unavailable for the rest of the day. The ASIO website was down for about 30 minutes after the attack and is now operating slowly or not at all. It [...]
Also posted in Law, Social Media, Technology Tagged AFP, Anonymous' Operation Australia, ASIO, Australian Federal Police, DDoS attack, hacker, Hacking Comments closed
Herald Sun intern debacle is a hard lesson in newsroom culture
The fury unleashed on a young Melbourne University student for writing about her internship at Australia’s biggest selling newspaper provides lessons for us all. For those at the Herald Sun, it should be a moment to take a deep breath and think: “Is that really how the world might see us in our unguarded moments?” [...]
Posted in Media & Communications Tagged Herald Sun, internship, misogyny, racism, sexism, student intern Comments closed
The art of storytelling: Danny Boyle’s London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
Olympic Games opening ceremonies serve to showcase the might, power and confidence of the host nation, which is why so many fade into the background after their shock and awe blitz. Consider the Beijing Games opening ceremony: more than 2,000 drummers and illuminated drums, massed groups of choreographed and costumed singers, acrobats and other performers. [...]
Also posted in Sport Tagged Britain, British, Danny Boyle, London 2012 Olympics, olympics, opening ceremony, storytelling Comments closed
Keep calm and trademark it: privatising the English language