Uncommon nonsense

Yes, I’ve been terribly lax with updating this.  I guess the thesis bogged me down and this just seemed like a side-thing.  Yesterday, however, that changed.  James, Purdy, Tamara, Gina and I are working on an online news feature about the Sudanese community, focusing on refugees’ experiences in Melbourne.  
 
Getting contacts seemed really difficult, none [...]

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Well yes, as said, this is the post with my notes on Barons to Bloggers, which was of course a cracking good read.  Or at least part 1.  Part 2 is still being mentally digested.
 
On the introduction:
Donald McDonald comments that the media has always been in a state of transition.  The free press, to be [...]

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Hi.  As the address says, this is the Uniblog, err, blog for Jane Felstead.
I am a media and communications honours student, which means THESIS (it’s taken on the sort of dreadful quality which gives the writer uninhibited use of caps lock).  The THESIS is titled “All’s Fair In Love and GTA IV: Social Capital In [...]

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