The pressure to chase clout and attention online is leading to adverse impacts on our ability to build the communities and connections we crave. It’s called brandification and audience capture. Let’s talk about it.
Corporations have worked hard to make themselves the most powerful political players in the land. They have a responsibility to not only help us create a more equitable world, but to do it properly.
The pressure to chase clout and attention online is leading to adverse impacts on our ability to build the communities and connections we crave. It’s called brandification and audience capture. Let’s talk about it.
Corporations have worked hard to make themselves the most powerful political players in the land. They have a responsibility to not only help us create a more equitable world, but to do it properly.
Wages are low, work insecure and funding has been gutted. Amid a cost-of-living crisis and a pandemic, are we about to lose a swathe of artists to obscurity? How Australian culture locked out the working class.
Without realising it, that lonely decade became a slow reclamation. Free of obligation to anyone but myself. My time as a single woman was crucial to discovering who I really am.
Mum tells me of how she flew to Melbourne from Adelaide just to see me for five minutes before I flew away. All these years later, I still grapple with what it means for my sense of home and identity.