NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia
----- Forwarded message from Laura Ranca <laura.ranca@gmail.com> ----- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:05:01 +0000 From: Laura Ranca <laura.ranca@gmail.com> Subject: New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> Lauren, This might be of interest for the NNSquad group. Best, Laura ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Natalie Fenton <N.Fenton@gold.ac.uk> Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM Subject: New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in I have been asked to forward the below: Subject: New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia From: "Mark McLelland" <markmc@uow.edu.au> I feel that I should at least make an attempt to alert people internationally to what is going on with the proposed internet filter and its implications for Japanese/cultural studies academics here in Australia. You can read a precis here of the implications of the government's proposed filter -- I wrote the text that Dru cites http://drupagliassotti.com/2010/01/18/australian-anime-manga-slash-fans- may-run-afoul-of-law/<http://drupagliassotti.com/2010/01/18/australian-anime-manga-slash-fans-%0Amay-run-afoul-of-law/> and I have a paper entitled Australia's Proposed Internet Filtering System and its Implications for Animation, Comics and Gaming (ACG) and Slash Fan Communities (Forthcoming in issue 134 of Media International Australia, February 2010) Once the paper is published I will put up a pdf version on the university's open access research publications site that you can link to. This is something that the international Media Studies establishment needs to take on. cheers, Mark Mark McLelland, PhD Associate Professor & Convenor, Sociology Program School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication Arts Faculty University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia tel: 02-4221-4305 web:http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/ssmac/staff/UOW018742.html CAPSTRANS Research Associate web:http://www.capstrans.edu.au/people/staff/mark-mclelland.html Latest publication: 'Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers', guest-edited special edition of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue20_contents.htm ----- End forwarded message -----