Tag: digital
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Media Changes to Hit Journalism Students
The recent cuts at Fairfax have caused panic in newsrooms all over Australia with almost two thousand job losses for the papers affected. While it has been an expected decline for over a decade, the sudden shift in Fairfax’s approach to the problem caught many by surprise. While Peter White, Senior Lecturer for Journalism at…
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Opinion: It’s Time for Direct Digital Democracy
I propose a counter-model to representative democracy which I call ‘Digital Direct Democracy’ or ‘D3’. It is, as the name suggests, a modified version of Direct Democracy, a system of government in which people vote on specific policies rather than electing representatives to vote on their behalf. Historically, Direct Democracy has been dismissed as an…