Week 9 - Tutorial Task

Internet and political participation
In this weeks tutorial task we were to find opportunities for political participation via the internet.
1) The first task was to sign an e-petition of your choise, and I signed the Amnesty's e-petition "Not In My Name" against death penalty as regards to the Troy Davis case.

Picture reference: Amnesty International, "Not in my name", 21 Sept 11. Located at:
 http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/c.6oJCLQPAJiJUG/b.7741827/k.62FF/Not_in_my_Name_Pledge/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=7741827&en=dmIPI6PPJcIYLgOSLbKULiM9LvL9KmN4LtI9LqNaIAK




2) To respond to a professional blogger at a major news site, I found a celebrity blogger for CNN that I chose to give a comment.

Picture reference: CNN Blogs, "Arrested development cast reunion in NYC", 21 Sept 2011. Located at:  http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21/arrested-development-cast-reuniting-in-nyc/#comment-639682

3) To find out what Barack Obama was up to today, I went on his Twitter acount and found out that he is speaking at the United Nations General Assembly.

Picture reference: Twitter, Barack Obamas News Feed 09 Sept 2011. Located at: http://twitter.com/#!/BARACKOBAMA

4) The Australian Government plan to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed"), and they are pushing forward with a plan to censor the Internet for all Australians. This is so that they can filter out a prescribed list of websites deemed prohibited by the Australian Communications and Media Authority with the apparent aim of ensuring children are ‘protected from harmful and inappropriate online material.
Karina Travaglione, 2009. Mannkal Essay Competition, "Internet Censorship in Australia - A ‘clean-feed’?", 21 Sept 2011. Located at: http://www.mannkal.org/downloads/scholars/internet-censorship-in-australia.pdf.


5) When will the NBN get to your place?
The NBN will come to Brisbane on the second release.
NBN, 2011, "Our Network". Viewed 21 Sept 2011, located at: http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-network/maps/qld.html.


- What are the benefits?
It provides better business solutions, better education for a brighter future, it assists the medical community and provides endless entertainment.
Chesher, C., 2010, " Benefits of the NBN go beyond the individual". Viewed 21 Sept 2011, located at http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/benefits-of-the-nbn-go-beyond-the-individual-20100812-120zv.html.

6) Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are and look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
I live in Surfers Paradise and the local representative in the Queensland Parliament is John-Paul Langbroek.The last time he spoke in the parliament was Thursday, 8 September 2011.
Parlament QLD, "Explore your parlament" viewed 21 Sept 2011, located at http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/en/explore.