Can Australia Save Journalism From the Internet?
As published in The New York Times | Opinion on Wednesday, 24 February, 2021. Last week Facebook carried out what may have been the single largest content takedown in its history. Any content that looked vaguely like news, even if it very much was not, disappeared...
Facebook VS the media code: whoever wins, we lose
Published in Overland Thursday, 18 February, 2021. Facebook has followed through on its promise, banning news content on its platform in response to the media bargaining code currently before parliament. Although it was something that Google had talked about most...
Podcast – Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News
Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast with Paris Marx. Listen to podcast. More ways to listen: Apple Spotify Overcast Google Stitcher Podcast Addict Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie O’Shea to discuss how Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers...
Australia’s flawed push to make Big Tech pay for news
As published in Nikkei Asia on Friday, February 12, 2021. Lizzie O’Shea is a human rights lawyer. She is author of “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology.” The experience of online...
Big Tech versus Democracy
As featured on the Green Left Show on Sunday, February 7, 2021.
Future Histories: Social movements can shape a sustainable, digital future
Tuesday, 2 February 2021. 12-2pm AEDT Register (Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 6–8 p.m. in Edmonton, Canada) The rapid advances of digital technology show how human ingenuity and cooperation has the potential to overcome profound challenges, reduce inequality and develop a...
Why Advancing Welfare Rights is a Digital Issue
Keynote presentation at the 2021 WACOSS conference ‘Finding Ground: Building A Better Way Back Together’ on Wednesday January 24, 2021. Footage to follow.
Antitrust case reveals the dangers of Facebook’s business model
At stake is the right to engage online without being watched, tracked or managed Lizzie O’Shea is a human rights lawyer. She is author of “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology.”...
The trouble with the media bargaining code
Published in the Overland. Sunday, 14 December, 2020. The proposed news media bargaining code tabled last week has been praised by many journalists. It’s also deeply flawed. The scheme requires that organisations apply to the Australian Media and Communications...
Human Rights Week. Equality Talks: Part 2 – New frontiers
Tuesday December 8, 2020. Register The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted almost every aspect of life as we knew it. Existing structural inequalities were highlighted, and often exacerbated, while ‘COVID-normal’ is asking us to take radically different approaches to the ways...
What next after coronavirus: the good, the bad or the ugly
Hosted by Melissa Benn Featuring: Ed Miliband MP, Hilary Cottam, Christine Berry, Lizzie O’Shea and Anita Whittaker Whether or not we have a second wave of the pandemic, the post-coronavirus economic recession is going to be very severe and is already here for...
Fake techno-utopianism and imagining a better future
As featured on Behind The News on Thursday, 13 February 2020. Listen below: ...
E&T Review Future Histories
My book reviewed by E&T: Public interest lawyer Lizzie O’Shea makes the case for learning from our past to mould a progressive and democratic digital future. Digital technologies have already reshaped the world and continue to do so at a pace that makes it a...
Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there. SYDNEY, Australia — A state’s capacity to spy on its citizens has grown exponentially in recent years as new technology has meant more...