#apsa08 - Going dark from the conference now.
#apsa08 - OECD is less about compromise-agreement and more about delivering high level ideas, decent quality and high end solutions
#apsa08 - trust an australian bureaucrat to implement best practice in a body that preaches best practice. Practicing of preaching is policy
#apsa08 - speaker makes the OECD sound like the Borg
#apsa08 - Peter Carroll and Ansley Kellow for the third shift on OECD and public servants
#apsa08 - changes to and by the internet are intensely political
#apsa08 - NetNeutrality becomes a question of your mail rates being set by what's written in the letter rather than what poststamp you used
#apsa08 - censorship in democracy - critics of the blockades blocked themselves. Net neutrality raised as a censorship issues
#apsa08 - warrantless survelliance of internet traffic; cctv in london; market research (little brother), hello panopticon.
#apsa08 - corporate controllers of the internet to effective close down markets and protect IP.
#apsa08 - group controllers - authoritarian gov't - info flow and control; democratic controls - terror, gov't efficiency and flow
#apsa08 - elites are starting to take control back over the technologies - control being exerted over new iCT spaces. Not a conspiracy tho
#apsa08 - citizen journalism as activism. Less over politics = filesharing networks (napster is politcal and challenges few-to-many models)
#apsa08 - dominant perspective of tech is as a neutral tool to be used by anyone. (instrumental view)
#apsa08 - ICT value in democratisation - political consequence to limitations on technology via non state actors eg RIAA
#apsa08 - Fast side shift to Sky Croser - broader application of critical theory to technology
#apsa08 - FDR's personal biases towards a method (military) blinded his capacity to process the problems
#apsa08 - metalesson - organisational goals need to be concrete, stated and communicated - particularly when dealing with foreign policy
#apsa08 - Burt's raised an interesting point on the influence of the US military in the foreign policy under FDR -recurring pattern for US?
#apsa08 - FDR proved the foundation of Yes Minister, "never trust a diplomat" as policy
#apsa08 - Sally Burt kicking off the session with FDR
#apsa08 -
last session for live tweet - International Relations stream in Moreton Room.
#apsa08 - catch-all parties that are increasingly use celebrity rather than celebrity parties which follow from cartel parties
#apsa08 - Fascinating talk - entirely unsure if it's remotely related to the paper published in the proceedings
#apsa08 - Experts make policy and seek acceptance from electorate. Top down to the people, need media and celebrity to access market
#apsa08 - late modernity has seen the rise of the discursive (increase importance of media, celebrity and experts) . Expert celebrity party
#apsa08 - 2nd category - everyday makers (citizen counterpoint to the expert citizen - grassroots participants?)
#apsa08 - classic moment - speaker's voice recorder has taking a life of its own for playing back a prior speech
#apsa08 - policy is made by expert community - how do governance networks implement policy
#apsa08 - move from heirarchy to networks of governance
#apsa08 - Room change. Sounds like a topic change for David Marsh as well.
#apsa08 Session over. Restarting the process for the 1.30 Governance and Public Policy in Room 5
#apsa08 - 42 minutes of speech converted to 10seconds on media. Journalists are becoming the brokers of political speech - 7second limits
#apsa08 - Howard gave better soundbytes - 11 from 15 soundbytes get repeated. Rudd - 12 soundbytes for 1 repeat. Uniform howard releases?
#apsa08 - SBS and ABC published 60% of political speech. Editorialisation issue - Host+Reporter=3xtime the coverage of the political speech
#apsa08 - Coalition - 58% Howard. Will be misunderstood wildly by political marketers
#apsa08 - one soundbyte from democrats (SBS), 2 from greens (CH10). Presidentialisation thesis test - leader soundbytes - 73% Rudd
#apsa08 - .au pols got 6.99 seconds per time. In newsclips, 28 seconds of coverage for pols. 4 soundbytes per story.
#apsa08 - UK pols get 25 sceonds to speak on air.
#apsa08 - Sally Young presenting on Soundbytes