creativity/machine

Category: politics

  • #asmc14 paper: Hashtag as hybrid forum: the case of #agchatoz

    I’m posting this from the University of Amsterdam, where we are now well into the final day of a fantastic three-day conference called Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space. We have quite a gang of participants here from the QUT Social Media Research Group, and we’ll collect all our papers up and post…

  • Who’s @theqldpremier?

    So, I’m sure Australian readers will have noticed that some things changed in Queensland over the weekend. Sometime yesterday I noticed that now ex-Premier Anna Bligh’s Twitter account, @theqldpremier (which had been going great guns, by the way, and props to her for that among many other things), looked all wrong: There had already been…

  • After the Apology

    Like many others, I was floored by how utterly uncynical, uncompromising, and genuinely empathetic Rudd’s speech turned out to be this morning. I’m actually proud of my government for the first time in a very long time. I’m struggling for words, and that’s quite OK. Said with more eloquence I can muster right now at…

  • Sorry

    Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will say sorry to Indigenous Australians, and especially to the members of the Stolen Generations, on behalf of the Parliament and successive Governments. Shamefully, it comes more than a decade after the Bringing Them Home report. It’s very significant, it’s about time, and it’s (only) a start. The sense of occasion…