Communications Law for Non Law Professionals
April 3, 2011 Leave a comment
Article from SMH
Backed by a groundswell of support from the gaming community, the Gillard government is determined to fix the classification system for computer games, which allows unsuitable games to be rated for 15-year-olds, yet bans popular games for adults.
March 20, 2011 Leave a comment
Fascinating series form the UK of the history of Pornography and it’s intertwining with social and technical development.
Pornography as a word and a concept as we know it today did not exist until the mid 19c – and its emergence is tied with technological evolution.
This program also proposes that Pornography is also born of the emergence of Privacy.
Excerpt: ‘…Ten years in the making, PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION is a six-part series, which tells for the first time on British television the history of pornography. This landmark series charts the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies over thousands of years: from ancient times to print, photography, film, video and the Internet. With unprecedented access to the modern porn industry, interviews with pornography experts and historians and an unparalleled collection of archival material, it is also the story of how these technological mediums influenced the development of pornography, who used it, how it was distributed and how it was censored…’
I have just launched into this.. more later
Guidelines for the Classification of Films and Videotapes (Ammendment 3)
March 14, 2011 1 Comment
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other – Sherry Turkle
In a line… the connection between isolation and connectivity. Not specifically Law, but part of the muddle.
“… In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It’s a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for—and sacrificing—in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today’s self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity…”
March 14, 2011 Leave a comment
Reflective article about the changing shape of the Bookstore
To quote…
Many bookstores are evolving into a blend of bookstore, coffee shop and/or cyber cafe, and are investing in POD (Print On Demand) machines that enable the retailer to maintain a huge backlist.
”The take up of e-books will be rapid: it will be 4 per cent by the end of the year and 10 per cent by the end of 2012,” Page says. ”Some of it will be new market, some of it will be print readers switching over, and if booksellers don’t have books in the digital format, it will be lost business.”
I can almost see bookstores becoming cultural havens, offering literary, thought, culinary diversity as the face to face social network aggregation points. There is still something about the environment of a book store that makes you wish you read more or devoted more time to scholarly and intelligent pursuit.
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