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Risks and rewards
Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors takes a wide-ranging look at the technological upheavals and innovations that define the...
Me, we and them
The roots of the digital change movement lie in ideas about audience persuasion that date back to Aristotle: that a combination of pathos, ethos and logos – the mixture of a credible hero, an emotive, empathetic story and a logical argument – is what’s needed to convince an audience to take action.
I, cyborg
Cyborg is a scary word. It is associated with science fiction, but despite the condescension with which some mainstream authors view the genre, it provides a useful way to explore the unintended consequences of how our paths into the future interact with human character and frailties
Cows come home
In this creative representation of the chatter that is social media, Annie Zaidi illuminates both the shortcomings and the insights that make up the underlying discourse of Indian political conversation…
ヴェブレン OK
(The Veblen Good)
At last year’s Queensland Literary Awards, David Thomas Henry Wright received the QUT Digital Literature Award for an exceptional...
Seeing through the digital haze
THERE IS SOMETHING seductive about aircraft vapour trails, those long streaks – ice, carbon dioxide, soot and metal – that...
Move very fast and break many things
WHEN FACEBOOK TURNED ten in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and nerdish face of the social network, announced that...
Hashtag war
THE CAR JOURNEY from Canberra airport to the parliamentary triangle is a necessary trip for Federal politicians. One route...
Cypherpunks and surveillance power
ON THE SURFACE, the global digital rights landscape is a depressing and forbidding place. US technology giants have commodified...
Networked hatred
EVERY ERA IS defined by its sustaining myths. Among ours is surely ‘disruption’. The book that seeded the mythology,...
Discounted goods
WALK THROUGH THE doors of a suburban op shop and you’ll find the residue of household (de)composition that was...
Guarding the gatekeepers
WARS OFTEN RAGE behind the estimated ten million Wikipedia pages: edit wars, where editors repeatedly override each other’s contributions...
