December 2018 – Club Troppo

Deck the halls of academe: Managerialism, product placement and The Conversation, featuring Troppo’s annual Christmas competition

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

I was checking out Peter Martin's list of Seven really bright (policy) ideas for a forthcoming article currently titled "What is a policy hack?"(It's a good article...

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Peter Shergold’s foreword to my submission to the Thodey Review

Nicholas Gruen

December 23, 2018

At a time like this, with two sleeps to go before Santa's elves hack Alexa and get it to let Santa and his reindeer shapeshift their...

Films and TV IT and Internet Media Parenting

PATRICIA EDGAR. Kids Technology and the Future: The Case for Regulation of Australian Children’s content (Part 3)

Nicholas Gruen

December 17, 2018

In the dynamic media environment we have in Australia, broadcasting regulation has become an exceptionally tricky exercise. If regulations are to work, they require creative...

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PATRICIA EDGAR. Kids Technology and the Future: The programs and projects children want to see (Part 2).

Nicholas Gruen

December 17, 2018

Children are now on the move. Their phone is their companion for reaching out to friends, texting, referencing, looking up what they want and need...

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PATRICIA EDGAR. Kids Technology and the Future: Technology is not the enemy. The Need for Positive Media Literacy (Part 1).

Nicholas Gruen

December 15, 2018

Cross posted from Pearls and Irritations The Information-technology Revolution is challenging the assumptions on which the education of children and the provision of their entertainment...

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Some moral seriousness from the kids

Nicholas Gruen

December 14, 2018

https://youtu.be/HzeekxtyFOY Putting the grown-ups to shame without the moral vanity the grown-ups tried so hard to teach her.

Films and TV

By PATRICIA EDGAR. Kids Technology and the Future: Radical revamp needed for Children’s TV content quotas.

Nicholas Gruen

December 12, 2018

Today’s kids are way ahead of our broadcasting regulators and television producers in the way they use both television and digital media. It’s time for...