Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 2001

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 2001

A net opportunity: Australian political parties on the Internet.
January 1, 2001... ABSTRACT In recent years, some elaborate claims have been made about how the Internet can revolutionise politics. While the Internet is not a panacea for all problems, it does present a number of opportunities. It is fast, inexpensive,...

Antinomies of agency, structure and technology: a case study.
January 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Twentieth century sociology and political science posited two pre-eminent counter-factuals to agency. These entities were social structure and instrumental reason, including the letter's attendant technologies. An unusual case...

Surrogacy: all the features of a relationship that could go wrong?
January 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Surrogacy arrangements have been a feature of family formation for centuries. However, their practice has not been embraced as an acceptable way of allowing infertile couples to form a family. The notion of a surrogacy arrangement...

Beyond technoglobal corporatisation: toward a wild politics.
January 1, 2001... ABSTRACT The argument of this paper (1) is that globalisation depends on an ideology that takes as its inspiration accumulation: the accumulation of wealth, of personal glory or of individualistic freedoms. The ideology valorises...

Technoculture: from Alphabet to Cybersex.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... LEILA GREEN CROWS NEST, NSW, ALLEN AND UNWIN, 2002, 254PP ISBN 1 86508 048 9, Aus$35.00 Lelia Green, senior lecturer in the School of Communications and Multimedia at Edith Cowan University, Perth, provides an important contribution to...

Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community and Public Policy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... LISA J SERVON BLACKWELL PUBLISHING OXFORD 2001, 288pp ISBN 0 631 23242 7, USD$62.95 As the US moves into the new information society, differential access to computing and communications technology becomes increasingly associated with the...

The Internet in Everyday Life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... BARRY WELLMAN AND CAROLINE HAYTHORNTHWAITE (EDS) BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, MALDEN, MA, 2002, 588pp When a book is characterised as being the one to introduce science into a research area that has hitherto been dominated by arm-chair theorising...

Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... CHRIS BENNER BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, MALDEN, MA, 2002, 293PP ISBN 0 631 23249 4 After a long departure from a focus on the importance of work in society, there is currently a renewed interest among academics on the impacts of current...

Are You Being Served? State, Citizens and Governance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... GLYN DAVID AND PATRICK WELLER (EDS) ALLEN AND UNWIN RRP $35.00 This collection starts from the question of whether or not liberal democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy; have citizens lost trust and faith in liberal democracy? ...

Power and Freedom in Modern Politics--Essays in Honour of Patrick O'Brien.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... JEREMY MOON AND BRUCE STONE (EDS) CRAWLEY: UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA PRESS, 2002, 253PP In composing a collection of essays in honour of Patrick O'Brien, Jeremy Moon and Bruce Stone have undoubtedly succeeded in their primary task of...

Australians and Globalisation: the Experience of Two Centuries.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... BRIAN GALLIGAN, WINSOME ROBERTS AND GABRIELLA TRIFILETTI CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001, 224PP Australians and Globalisation: the experience of Two centuries is a rather ambitious study, which sets out to debunk some...