Category: politics
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Chancellor of Germany makes first political podcast
In a world-first for a mainstream political leader, the Chancellor of Germany has made a political podcast. In the history of innovation in political communication, this is equivalent to Hoover and his political innovations with radio and his famous ‘fireside chats’ . Technorati : germany, podcast, politics, web2, web2.0 Del.icio.us : germany, podcast, politics Ice…
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The (Australian) National Forum
The National Forum is an initiative that engages with many of the nations most important issues and political processes online. They have a whole bunch of sites; check them out. The National Forum, publisher of this site, was incorporated as a not-for-profit company to be a vehicle to promote democratic uses of the Internet in…
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Australia’s Cross Media Ownership Laws Change
In line with the some what predictable behaviour of Conservative, laissez-faire ideology, the Australian Conservative government is set to change the laws that protect diversity within the Australian media system. Australia has one of the world’s most concentrated media systems in terms of ownership and the ‘cross-media-ownership’ legislation was in place to protect the Australian…
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Game Activism
Some ten thousand Chinese protestors staged a demonstration on the weekend after a motif resembling a Hinomaru or “rising sun” Japanese flag was seen on a wall at a government office. Such large protests last took place in China two years ago when government-sanction anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out around the country after Japan approved school…
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Wikepedia founder launches political site
Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection (link).