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The Cultural Background of (German) Digital Games
Over the course of the last two weeks I conducted a couple of interviews for my Ph.D. dealing with the was the perception of digital games differs in Germany and Australia. By talking to just a couple of people you can tell how the cultural history of a country also influences the way modern media [...]
Posted in Jens Schroeder, Uncategorized, Video Games, germany Also tagged Ascaron, BlogCampaigning, DS, EGDF, germany, home computer, Kultur, Wii, Yager 1 Comment
A Liberal Democracy on Par With China and Saudi Arabia: Australia’s ‘Net Filter Plan
The internet: decentralised, largely unregulated, not belonging to anyone, knowledge flowing freely. Australia: Traditionally having one of the strictest censorships of a liberal democracy, banning R18+ video games and behind pretty much everyone else in terms of broadband speeds. How do these two mix? Exactly…
The Australian Government under Kevin Rudd plans to impose a [...]
Posted in Et cetera, Jens Schroeder, Online, Politics Also tagged censorship, Conroy, Getup, Internet filter, Kevin Rudd, Labor 2 Comments
National Cinemas/ National Game Cultures pt.1
This is the first part of a two part post musing about national cinemas compared to national game cultures. Today I give you some thoughts on a(n Australian) national cinema, the game part follows tomorrow.
I spent a good part of last week reading Tom O’Regan’s excellent “Australian National Cinema. O’Regan explains that Australia’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Game culture, national cinema, national game culture Leave a comment
Learning From The Past: How DRM Failed in Australia
While doing research for my Ph.D. I came across the history of how radio was introduced in Australia – and how it initially failed due to some ancient DRM suggested by the industry heavyweights.
Official radio transmission in Australia commenced in 1923. In May that year the Postmaster-General convened a conference of all interested parties to [...]
The voter-conversation
Steven Noble had an interesting post over at the Hill & Knowlton site, Elbow Grease, a couple of days ago. Under the headline: The digital election is about what voters say to each other, Nobel argues that we spend too much time focusing on the wrong questions when we discuss the concept of “the digital [...]
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No Tax Rebate For Australian Videogame Industry
When the Australian Government decided to introduce a new media funding scheme this year. For some reason videogames weren’t included and it seems the Liberals are determined to keep it that way. As Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (now that’s quite a portfolio there) explains:
The Screen Media Support Package announced [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Australian videogame industry, future jobs, GDAA, government funding, PhD, tax rebates Leave a comment
Bioshock and the Australian Videogame Industry
Internet! Finally! But then again the opportunities of me contributing more to this blog remain marginally slim because I’m playing Bioshock, “the ultimate rarity: not only does it live up to its lofty promise, but exceeds it through simple, old fashioned talent and imagination – not to mention verve, style,class, wit, and sheer bloody-minded ambition. [...]
Posted in Video Games Also tagged Australian game industry, Bioshock, GDAA, IP, PhD, videogames 1 Comment
Trolls, John Howard and the Over-Manipulation of Reality
I wanted to write about this for ages but packing my stuff, filling out fascist custom forms and trying to read every book I can get a hold on before I leave Australia next week kept me quite busy.
The article Espen points out, It’s not the blogs I hate, it’s their fans, reminded me of [...]
Discrimination? Blame your Genes