November 5, 2006
Computers are shaping and transforming our creative and intellectual culture. As internet search engines get faster and information networks grow larger computers are not the only things changing-we are too, as we become ever more reliant on computers.
Some compare the internet to an Adam Smith-style marketplace, where ideas, knowledge and information are being produced and exchanged with unparalleled efficiency and accuracy. Others hold that the internet is doing the opposite by deadening and weakening the population's creativity.
It's a ' do it your self style' that is developing in the digital media and one that rejects the hackneyed routines of traditional academic discourse that presents a closed face to the world outside academia. Bad Subjects, political and cultural journal, is an example of the new style of an electronic periodical that is more than a periodical.
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Most of the Australian blogeteriat are established academics and public intellectuals. Not that many prominent 'punk' bloggers.