gatewatching

The Australian Communications and Media Authority have released their Communications Report for 2006-2007.
ACMA are responsible for regulating broadcasting and communications in Australia. Part of their responsibility is recording and publishing information on the scope of Australia’s communications industires, and the success of broadcasters, telcos and other in meeting their regulatory obligations. This report does [...]

A quick addendum to my last Gatewatching post, which discussed why in the face of a journalistic environment more concerned with scoring points than reporting on the issues of the day it’s not such a bad idea if politicians choose to converse with citizens outside of the media glare: from what I’ve seen so far, [...]

Brisbane.The last AMIC 2008 session this afternoon starts with a paper by my colleague Jason Wilson, our research associate on the Youdecide2007 project and its follow-ups, and he presents especially on the experience and lessons from Youdecide. There may be a need for a structural modification in the role of conventional journalists, and a change [...]

Brisbane.The post-lunch session at AMIC 2008 starts with Zheng Jiawen from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, whose focus is on citizen journalism in China - and particular, on Zola Zhou, popularly recognised as China’s first citizen journalist. Broadly, citizen journalism is a public response to the inadequate performance of the mainstream journalism industry (and rose [...]

Our latest piece is up at the ABC here Feel free to comment there or here.

Club Bloggery: Once were barons
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders
The Bulletin magazine, published by ACP, has closed down after almost 130 years of publishing.
Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, [...]

A few bloggy responses to the first 100 days of the new government. (If there are some we’ve missed, let us know)
Guy Beres offers a summary of the MSM reaction.
Tim Dunlop reckons that the printed report is a bit rich after the pasting Labor have been giving the outgoing government over political advertising.
And Uncle Piers, [...]

1. It’s very difficult to stop people watching a television programme that’s been broadcast in another State, even if you’ve banned it, and even if it might prejudice court proceedings. (Bloody Internet.)
2. It’s very difficult to keep a Prince’s wherabouts under wraps when the media are globally networked, even if his life depends on it. [...]

Goodness me. There’s a bit of a stoush on the Oz’s website! Janet Albrechtsen wrote a column earlier this week that gave out some advice to Kevin Rudd, and claimed victory in the “Culture Wars”, or argued that they were still going on, or something like that (It’s honestly a little bit hard to tell). [...]

Our 8th Club Bloggery is up at the ABC site. We’ve got some recommendations for voters based on the parties online performance. Have a look.
This will be our last Club Bloggery for the election, but keep an eye out for more pieces from the gatewatching crew.

Club Bloggery part 8: Scoring the e-lection
Jason Wilson, Barry [...]

Hi all - here’s the latest Club Bloggery posted over at the ABC on Friday. The topic seems to have excited a fair amount of interest - feel free to comment here.
Jason Wilson, Axel Bruns, and Barry Saunders
Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know [...]