Week 8 tute task.

Everyone should have completed their news report videos by now - for Ireport - and you should also have posted them onto your weblog either by uploading to blogger or putting them on a video hosting service.

It is time to begin thinking about what topic you will choose for your final essay. Have a look at the questions on the announcements page. You should choose only one of the questions to answer. You may think of another topic but you must have it approved by your tutor during the tutorials.

This week's tasks:

What opportunities can you find for political participation via the internet. How many of the following can you achieve while sticking to your political beliefs?

• Sign an e-petition.
• Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
• What is Barak Obama up to today?
• Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
• Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
• Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
• Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.

+ we ask:

What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")???

What place does censorship have in a democracy?

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Remember that the blogs are due for assessment on Friday the week 10.