Category: politics
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Victoria gets first Greens in Parliament
Greg Barber is one of three Green representatives recently elected to ‘Northern Metropolitan’ region in the 40-seat Legislative Council with Greens colleague Sue Pennicuik and one DLP member (with which he will share the balance of power). These are the first Greens in the Victorian Parliament. Here is an interview I did with Greg for…
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Network Publics at the Annenburg Centre at USC
This is a good school that does good stuff.. netPublics explores the roles of audiences, activists, citizens, and producers in maturing networked media ecologies. These changes include but are not limited to the changing relationship between production and consumption, viral and peer-to-peer distribution, and networked lateral political mobilization. Although the Internet is clearly a central…
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Buy Nothing Day 24-25 November
Are You a Greedy Pig? (check out the vid) Every November, for 24 hours, we remember that no one was born to shop, we make a small choice to participate by not participating. If you’ve never taken part in Buy Nothing Day, or if you’ve taken part in the past but haven’t really committed to…
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ActNow
Australian political communication at its finest (and using features of Web2.0).(link)