In the dawning of a new State government for New South Wales following the recent election, The Fourth Estate looked at the celebrated development introduced for the disabled or absentee voters - "the eVote - and why it won't necessarily be in place for the next Federal election according to some experts...
Plus, with legal change evolving for the media, we revisit the age-old copyright debacle, but this time on a more global and dominant scale: Google is in negotiations to buy off the rights of every book published in the US, and - in time - the world to launch the digitised freeflow of information: GoogleBooks...but would this only result in a monopoly market position in cyberspace for the global search engine giant and it corporations?
We also explain if there is any truth to the notions behind addictive online gaming..
Postmodern design theorist and founding father, JONATHAN BARNBROOK, of the UK, most revered for his anti-corporate graphic logos associated with his work at ADBUSTERS recently visited Australia and hosted a design workshop for University of Technology's Visual Communications students. The resulting efforts in design-focussed message of political conscience will be exhibited at the public gallery showing over the coming week.
