Search Results: blogosphere
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 05 April 2016
7 Comments
Ellis' work is a prime example of the notion advanced by the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: that committed literature, and the act of writing, are political and ethical acts. Even in a film script, one can ponder social political change. Always of the left, but never formally the structured party man of faction and following, the dishevelled, sometimes wild Ellis proved contrarian even to Labor stalwarts. There were never pious reflections, or unqualified praises.
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MEDIA
- Michael McVeigh
- 06 August 2013
15 Comments
One of the things we expect from our media is that they will ask the hard questions on an election trail. Today's editorial from the Daily Telegraph makes it clear that they believe only one party is worthy of your trust. If the mainstream media can no longer be trusted to ask the serious questions of both parties, perhaps it's time for the game to move elsewhere.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Greg Foyster
- 30 July 2013
29 Comments
With the release of some frightening reports over the last 12 months, those who deny the scientific consensus on climate change will have to expand their list of 'alarmists' to include some unlikely suspects — the World Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the International Energy Agency. When accountancy firms start sounding like environmental campaigners, the future looks very alarming indeed.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 11 April 2012
89 Comments
Atheist Richard Dawkins' debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in February was a gentlemanly affair. By contrast Dawkins' debate with Cardinal George Pell on the ABC's Q&A this week was billed as a 'title fight of belief'. As one comment on Twitter noted the next day, 'they both lost'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 19 July 2010
6 Comments
The fact that we are 'discussing' more
than ever before due to the internet and the blogosphere, does not prove
that our democracy is in better shape. The environment precludes reasoning because reasoning requires a willingness to listen to the other and to approach questions
through mutual respect.
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 23 October 2009
22 Comments
Liberal Roman Catholics have particular reason to be perturbed at the
influx of ex-Anglicans driven not by ecumenical zeal, but by
dogged adherence to positions on women's ordination or human sexuality which bespeak a broader conservatism.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Ben Coleridge
- 14 August 2009
The lecturer's joke about religion is met with laughter. Here, 'faith' is the jester. In dismissing faith, we dismiss people for whom faith is central to the search for truth. We exclude them from that task of imagination and creation.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 02 June 2009
2 Comments
The internet raised Susan Boyle to
superstardom, while traditional media heaped her with disparagement and conjecture. Might the more democratic realm of new media might
provide a more saintly balance to the traditional tabloid monster?
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MEDIA
Bloggers
are being hunted and jailed in countries such as Burma and Iran. In Western nations they are incurring the wrath of disgruntled mainstream journalists. The plight of St Mary's South Brisbane holds a useful metaphor for this crusade on free speech.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 29 September 2008
3 Comments
Online publications know that the flame throwers among those who post comments invariably draw a crowd. Such an environment is potentially fertile ground for character assassination, rather than reasoned argument.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 July 2008
1 Comment
Cult filmmaker Romero fears that new media has, rather than democratising the news, led to increased
tribalism that is divisive rather than unifying. He articulates these fears in his latest high-concept zombie film, Diary of the Dead.
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Cassidy
- 18 May 2006
1 Comment
Margaret Cassidy considers how the blogs of two young women reflect their very different world views.
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