Games & Interactive

A landmark court ruling over the Oscar-winning movie means that Australians can now be tracked down and sued over illegal downloading.

The internet is full of sights, sounds, video and music. And there are almost limitless options to share that content, and to mash it up into new forms. Australians have a notorious appetite for illegal downloads of movies, television and music. But proposed new regulations may make it easier to highlight such infringement and for copyright-holders to take action against it. Nearly every artist has a story of how they have found their creations have been ripped off online, but some creators have embraced the culture of free downloads and are using it for their advantage.

We live so much of our lives in the online realm. It's hard to imagine where we would be without email, web surfing, online banking and social networking. But what happens when you die? Who will inherit your online life? And is "inherit" even the right word? Legal experts say "no", while bereaved family members describe the difficulties in accessing the online property of their loved ones.

US streaming service Netflix has launched in Australia. Will it stop us illegally downloading?

Tinder hasn't changed the nature of dating or set love on a path to ruin. But it has encouraged attitudes best left unencouraged. It feeds illusory beliefs that love can be made safe from risk, that love is always conditional.

Audience numbers listening to digital radio in Australia's capital cities have grown to more than three million people, but remote parts of the country are still waiting for access to the digital signal. Listeners are frustrated the service is confined to the capital cities and were expecting the rollout to be done by now.
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Thousands of fans of the Japanese animation, Kiki's Delivery Service, continue to make the pilgrimage to a small bakery in Ross.

In the last few years a number of so-called have experienced a huge boom, disrupting some very well established global industries. Based online, these are companies like Airbnb - which is shaking up the hotel world , ride sharing company Uber and, Freelancer which helps businesses outsource small tasks. Its not just traditional industries facing challenges from this new economy, governments around the world are struggling to figure out how to regulate in a way that strikes a balance between protecting consumers and existing competition laws, while encouraging efficiency and innovation. The Grattan Institute hosted this talk on how to regulate the peer to peer economy.

Jill Lepore uncovers the secret history behind Amazonian superheroine, Wonder Woman.
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Over one billion young people around the world are at risk of hearing loss from listening to loud music through headphones, and going out to noisy clubs and gigs.

Hundreds of people have signed an online petition to have Bendigo councillor Elise Chapman be removed from office, after she tweeted an image depicting genital mutilation to a supporter of the Bendigo mosque.

Tucked away in a back room of one of Mildura's oldest buildings is a colourful collection of tin cans, old pipes, buckets and tubes, bound together by hot pink string.

Helen Razer's writing often contradicts popular opinion and stirs debate.
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A Queensland nurse who transforms herself into a totally different person with make-up and wigs says it all started with gaming.

The outgoing chair of the Australian Press Council airs a range of criticisms about newsgathering techniques and publishing in the digital age, highlighting the practice of publishing information and images obtained on social media.
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One of central Queensland's most iconic voices credits a former president with helping him win a job with the ABC almost 20 years ago.

Trading cards is something that takes me back to my adolescent years; I remember sitting in the schoolyard swapping cards that more often than not came out of a cereal box. Fast forward a few years and I have now discovered that trading cards are being taken to a whole new level.

Does a sense of playfulness underpin the modern world? From information sharing to social activism to business training, the dynamics of play are increasingly important in our rapidly evolving world. But play isnt just being used to entertain, relax or divert. Its more than mere games. Play in the 21st Century has found a new role as a motivator and unifier. (Pleasenotethisprogram wasoriginallybroadcastonthe29th of September2013)