::fibreculture:: Globalisation

[Cokley, John]

my all-consuming interest at the moment is how access to computers and the
internet are affecting news gathering and dissemination in third world
countries. i'm in the middle of researching a paper on this topic. anybody
know of precedents in (say) S.America, Africa, Pacific Islands or (wild
guess) North-West Territories of Canada?

thanks
john cokley

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Brown [mailto:hughie at onlineopinion.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:52 PM
To: Cokley, John
Subject: Re: ::fibreculture:: Globalisation


I tend to agree, John. What, for example, would YOU like to discuss???

Hughie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cokley, John" <cokleyj at qnp.newsltd.com.au>
To: <fibreculture at lists.myspinach.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: ::fibreculture:: Globalisation


> i'm beginning to wonder whether i'll achieve any constructive thing by
> remaining on this list. i imagined it would be a useful list for
discussion
> of serious professional topics but since all this chatter started my main
> aim has been to reach the delete key! i guess the next move will be
> "unsubscribe"?!
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> john cokley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: craig bellamy [mailto:milkbar at milkbar.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 7:25 AM
> To: fibreculture at lists.myspinach.org
> Subject: ::fibreculture:: Globalisation
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> Hi all,
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> Being a bleak history type person in a 'ruthless discipline of context", I
> get the feeling that a times-are-a-changing and we really must reassess a
> few of the things that we as progressive computer people, or activists, or
> critics, or netizens have taken for granted over the past six or seven
> years.  The first is that 4 trillion dollars has vanished into thin air
> from the US dot coms during the past year. This is (get this) more than 2
> 1/2 times Australian GDP or the entire Australian federal budget for the
> next 33 years! The other is that Labor is more popular in Australia now
> than in any time since the early 70's. Perhaps this puts a bit of a new
> spin on 'globalisation' and ICANN and cyber-culture and other determinist
> futures that we may have forgotten operate in a real world. Maybe the
> corporations won't look so bad when they are all going broke. The next few
> months will be telling.
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> all the best,
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> Craig Bellamy
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