The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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Politics
The ACTA Retreat: Their Ignorance, And Ours
A Practical Magic: Christine O’Donnell’s Invocations of Witchcraft
By now you've surely heard the news: Christine O'Donnell is not a witch. Merely scoffing at her response to this brouhaha, though, means passing up an opportunity to understand how she constructs herself and her appeal as a righteous outsider.
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What the Quran Burning Episode is NOT About
As the media hand-wringing continues over whether Rev. Terry Jones's Quran book-burning stunt deserved so much media attention, commentators miss the more important points about this episode and its relationship to contemporary political culture.
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Grown-Up Government: Bindi Irwin for Prime Minister! (Or President!)
In the Inception election, is there anyone left in Australia who harbours political ambitions, personal integrity, a strong stance on environmental issues, and a unified and universal identity? Crikey, yes!
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Imperception and the Election? Dreamtime 2.0 Down Under
Down under, well beneath the consciousness of the wider world, the 2010 Australian Federal election has an unreal, dreamlike air. We’re not talking Aboriginal Dreamtime here; we’re witnessing a new creation myth.
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Did the UK General Election Debates Make a Difference?
The British General Election of 2010 likely will be seen as a decisive moment in the country’s democratic history, not just because of its unusually messy result, but also because it heralded a new era in the mediation of electoral politics.
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Do New Media/Social Media Distort Political Reality?
As the Republican Party careens off into the netherworld of nuttery crafted by right wingnuts, we must ask ourselves what role users of new media play in helping craft their appeal. Do they deserve the attention we afford them through our own actions employing new media/social media?
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Meet the Bigots: When Popular Culture and Unpopular Politicians Collide
Rarely has television fiction been replicated and superseded by actual events as drastically as in Wednesday’s meeting of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown with Rochdale-based pensioner Gillian Duffy.
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The Right to Make Wrong TV?
Later this year, the RightNetwork, a network dedicated to programming solely for conservatives, will launch. I’m intrigued by this network for a few reasons.
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Five Thoughts On: Peter’s Palestinian Alarm Clock
I don’t know if I’m the only Jew who watched this episode of Family Guy while residing in the Palestinian Territories, but I’ve got a suspicion that if we all got together we’d have trouble making a minyan. In any case, it’s a good opportunity to offer up a new gimmick for Antenna: ...
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