Voting in Wukan by Jordan Pouille James Madison famously remarked that a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy. The present government of the People’s Republic of...
Read MoreMEDIA & DEMOCRACY: On the final day of The Conversation’s series on how the media influences the way our representatives develop policy, John Keane examines how the relationships between politicians, journalists, lobbyists and the PR sector undermine democracy. [caption id="" align="aligncenter"...
Read More[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="668"] Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire is reeling under the phone hacking scandal. AAP[/caption] Schadenfreude is the tough-sounding word that wins my vote for describing accurately how millions of people around the world are feeling about Rupert Murdoch’s...
Read MoreProfessor John Keane is in conversation with Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Australian Greens. This conversation is not meant to be a traditional political interview. It is a discussion between a leading academic and a senior elected representative about...
Read MoreGreat revolutionary convulsions typically trigger long-lasting reflections on their causes and consequences. The European tradition of political thinking harbours many well-known examples, including Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Harold Laski’s Reflections on the Revolution of Our...
Read MoreIn the beginning there was the grand spectacle of a worldwide satellite television broadcast, featuring Maria Callas, Pablo Picasso and the Beatles. Then came fax machines, photocopiers, video recorders and personal computers. Now there are electronic books, scanners and smart...
Read MoreThe Media & Democracy Public Life & Late Capitalism The Life & Death of Democracy ...
Read MoreChapter 6 - pp. 92-114 - in Geneva Overholser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (eds.) 2005 - The Press, The Institutions of American Democracy, Oxford University Press After more than half a century [1] , fresh interpretations of the vital importance of journalism...
Read MoreJohn Keane on WikiLeaks in Die Zeit, 7 October, 2010 Read German article in PDF format...
Read MoreKeynote public lecture at the 2010 Journalism Education Association of Australia Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 25th November, 2010. Another version of this lecture was presented on October 6, 2010 as a part of The Sydney Ideas lecture series. Its audio form...
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