Edited by the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

Mark Bahnisch

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Social media: Tools for user-generated content

For organisations which choose to incorporate social media elements into their online presence, this report provides material to inform that choice and guide the structural decisions which follow from it

The stuff that myths are made of

As a political tool the internet is neither ?top down? nor ?bottom up,? argues Mark Bahnisch in this review of Matthew Hindman's The Myth of Digital Democracy

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The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

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