Welcome to Jason Ensor's personal microblog for unstructured and uncensored thoughts about screen media, culture, text, technology, reading, history, digital humanities, consumption, virtual worlds, literature, futures studies and Australian society. All opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views or opinions of any institution or work environment.
Editorial
The year 2006, which marked the tenth anniversary of John Howard’s Coalition Government, was peculiarly bracketed by two interrelated sets of events (and corresponding media flurries) both problematising the symbolism of the national flag: the Cronulla riots of December 2005, and the nation-wide debate in the media over the ‘banning’ of the Australian flag at the hugely popular travelling music festival Big Day Out … Read more [PDF].
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