Following the news that Australia intends to censor the internet for arguably spurious reasons, the story deepens: The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet, which experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography. Internet…
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The blogging revolution that’s changing the world
The following feature, by Pam Walker, appeared in the Hub newspaper on October 13: Few would now deny the growing power of the internet and its appeal to younger readers who are turning their backs on mainstream media in favour of online content, especially blogs. Antony Loewenstein, Australian journalist and author of My Israel Question,…
Sydney launch of The Blogging Revolution
The Blogging Revolution launched in Sydney in late September at leading independent bookshop Gleebooks. It was recorded and screened on ABC2 and is now available online below. I was in conversation with leading media commentator Kate Crawford:
Have blog, will rebel
The following news story and interview, by Rob Bates (photo by Alan Place), appears in this week’s Wentworth Courier newspaper: Controversial author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein will host an event at Paddington’s Fringe Bar to discuss internet censorship and the brave few who rise against it. Loewenstein’s first book, My Israel Question, received mixed…
The obsession with the medium
Your brain on blog. A discussion about the limitations and strengths of the blogging medium between The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan and Marc Ambinder. Deep thinking is seemingly shunned:
Time Out Sydney on blogging
My following article is published in this week’s Time Out Sydney magazine: In the years after September 11, 2001, I was constantly frustrated by the failure of the Western media to examine the real reasons behind the attacks. It was as if only a Western journalist’s filter was allowed to see the post 9/11 world.…
How to take over the world
Marvel at the rise of the new super-power: The Chinese love affair with the internet will see digital ad spend increase 40% to $5.2bn (…£3.07bn) next year, making the booming Asian online economy roughly the same size as the current UK market, according to a report… By the end of next year, the Chinese ad…
Down the path of authoritarianism
Who says online filtering is only happening in “repressive” regimes? Alas, America is becoming the home of imposed political censorship onlne.
Is killing wrong?
As videogames create better, more immersive models of reality: are we free to do anything we want in a virtual world, or are some things inherently… wrong?
The Committee to Protect Bloggers on my book
The following review of The Blogging Revolution is published by the Committee to Protect Bloggers: I told Antony Loewenstein well over a month ago that I would review his book, “The Blogging Revolution.” I’ve put it off not because the book’s no good but because I simply hate reviewing books. It takes forever and, if…