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When is a newspaper no longer a newspaper?
There’s been some movement over the last year of newspapers dropping their print edition and becoming online-only. Which raises an interesting philosphical question: When does a newspaper stop being a...
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Social networking and the NYT – be careful what you sign-up for
Thanks to Poynter Online for posting the New York Times guidelines for reporters using social networking sites as a journalistic tool. The first guideline is about politics or controversial groups and...
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“Sorry” is indeed the hardest word: Facebook faux pas leads to apology
A number of British news organisations have been forced to apologise and pay damages to a woman after wrongly reporting that her daughter’s 16th birthday got out of hand because people turned up to her...
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What can we learn from video gamers that will help journalism?
This is a shameless plug! The Journalism and Society Research Group was recently established by Dr Martin Hirst and colleagues, in the School of Communication at AUT University, to further research and...
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Journalism and blogging: leave it to the machines?
In science and science fiction there’s a moment when it all goes to custard for the human race. It’s the singularity – often defined as the time when machines begin to out think humans. We’re not there...
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The Open Newsroom – a study of New Zealand newsrooms and citizen journalism
Congratulations to Masters student Vincent Murwira. He has completed his dissertation research project and it is now available for public viewing. There is a trend with postgraduate students to present...
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A journalist is not a gadget
My second installment discussing Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget. In the future, writing might not be something anymore that is entirely done by humans, and that surely needs to be debated....
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Rinehart’s Fairfax gamble…a long play game
Published 2 Feb 2012 in The National Times There’s been some excitement on the bourse and in media boardrooms this week over Gina Rinehart’s move on Fairfax Media. It seems the West Australian iron ore...
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Telco giants do the techno-legal time warp, again
Telecommunications giant Optus managed to convince the Federal Court in Sydney this week that there’s a legal blindspot in relation to its download pay-per-view service. Telstra – given its business...
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Media “reformers” drunk on Clayton’s tonic: How to be seen to be doing...
Well Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has finally let the skinny, de-clawed and highly-stressed cat out of the bag. This week he has announced a raft of media reforms that will be introduced into...
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One tweet does not a revolution make: Technological determinism, media and...
This is my recently published piece on technological determinism and revolution – case study of the Arab Spring. Reprinted from Global Media Journal Abstract This paper discusses the problematic...
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Big Data is the DNA of Big Brother
“Big Data” has become a popular term in information technology and business circles, but what is it and what should we think about it? “Big Data” is often talked about reverently and passionately by...
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