John Burdett (politician)

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bjbj John Keane: Australia is something of a laboratory in a region, which itself is arguably at the cutting edge of the twenty-first century in terms of media trends and the relationship of communication media and politics and the future of democracy. Super: What does this mean for democracy? John Keane: The question is, what is, what effects is this networked, digital, global media system having on the way we understand democracy. I think the changes are very profound. Democracy is being transformed from fair, free, clean elections to something much more. Abuse of power, arbitrary power, the misuse of power is more easily exposable. Super: What is the political impact? John Keane: One of the immediate consequences is that we re living through a period where party membership is at an all-time low, where respect for politicians has plummeted, where politics comes to be a dirty word. And this is not unrelated to this communications revolution which is going on because it becomes much more likely that governments, politicians, parties, politics, comes to be subject to the muckraking, to exposures, to being outflanked by citizens and others using digital media. Super: How should governments respond? John Keane: Once upon a time, parties had tremendous access to media. They had alliances with newspapers. They had television and radio stations, even. This has all been broken. There s a net jump in the level of public controversies about power. That s a good thing for democracy but it s having disabling effects on the representative system. And the prize will go to those politicians and those parties and those governments that learn how better to deal with this digital media revolution. [Content_Types].xml Iw}, $yi} _rels/.rels theme/theme/themeManager.xml sQ}# theme/theme/theme1.xml w toc'v )I`n 3Vq%'#q :\TZaG L+M2 e\O* $*c? )6-r IqbJ#x ,AGm T[XF64 E)`# R>QD =(K& =al- 4vfa 0%M0 theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.rels 6?$Q K(M&$R(.1 [Content_Types].xmlPK _rels/.relsPK theme/theme/themeManager.xmlPK theme/theme/theme1.xmlPK theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.relsPK <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <a:clrMap xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" bg1="lt1" tx1="dk1" bg2="lt2" tx2="dk2" accent1="accent1" accent2="accent2" accent3="accent3" accent4="accent4" accent5="accent5" accent6="accent6" hlink="hlink" folHlink="folHlink"/> ALABS Normal ALABS Microsoft Office Word University of Sydney Title Microsoft Office Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDoc Word.Document.8