Issue 01 – The Politics of Networks
There are many who say that publishing today – especially the publishing of new ideas – is in trouble. In many ways, this is hard to argue with, especially as regards commercial academic publishing. At...
View ArticleFCJ-001 Report: Creative Labour and the Role of Intellectual Property
Ned Rossiter Communications and Media Studies, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University This report is based on the survey I conducted for the fibrepower panel initiated by Kate...
View ArticleFCJ-002 Perfect Match: Biometrics and Body Patterning in a Networked World
Gillian Fuller School of Media and Communications, UNSW Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close range by way of its likeness. (Benjamin, 1992: 217) When a body is in...
View ArticleFCJ-003 Internet Politics in an Information economy
Jon Marshall University of Technology, Sydney Introduction The Internet, and information technology generally, is not separate from the social world in which it is embedded, neither does it fully...
View ArticleFCJ-004 The Military-Entertainment Complex: A New Facet of Information Warfare
Stephen Stockwell and Adam Muir Griffith University All by itself, a Go piece can destroy an entire constellation synchronically; a chess piece cannot…Chess is indeed a war but an institutionalized,...
View ArticleFCJ-005 The Erasure of Technology in Cultural Critique
Belinda Barnet University of New South Wales Isaac Asimov once suggested that it would make far more difference in our everyday lives if the automobile had not been invented than if Einstein had failed...
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