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Facebook journalism, continued

The recent post about Rudd’s social networking strategy is now available over at Online Opinion. Since I wrote the piece there have been some pretty spectacular examples of Facebook journalism–the most notable being The Courier Mail‘s massive headline last Saturday, June 7: “FACEBOOK MURDER”. The web version of the story includes a link to the [...]

Blog reader survey – please help

A message from Bo, my wonderful RA. Please consider linking to this post if you are a blogger and want to support more cultural research in this area! Do you have a favourite blogger that you want to talk about? I am an Honours student from the University of Queensland, Australia and I am conducting [...]

The social networking strategy that wasn’t

When photos of the Prime Minister’s ‘butler’ appeared in various Sunday papers this past weekend it was the latest example of an emerging genre of so-called news stories based on allegedly revealing photos available on Facebook (Australian readers may well remember the media frenzy around swimming star, Stephanie Rice). Rudd’s apparent reaction to the front [...]

A screen without a mouse: On TV bashing

**This post is also a response to the Passion Quilt Meme. I tag Supervalent Thought, Purse Lip Square Jaw, Unemployed at Last!, and tactical.** Some people will have seen that one of UQ’s most respected television scholars made the editorial of Brisbane’s Courier Mail on Friday, after giving an address to The Sopranos conference at [...]