http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/bronwen-clune/ Bronwen’s first story as a journalist was covering a meeting on how to attract ladies to the town of Narrogin, WA, to marry the local farmers. She got lots of winks that day and it’s been downhill since then. Her next story was covering a sheep auction. Luckily she was seconded back to Perth where she worked at The West Australian before freelancing and naively embarking on an ambitious effort to save journalism. Yes, she has delusions of grandeur. She has just been elected to be on the board for the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism where she hopes to at least make somewhat of a contribution to achieving that goal. She’s enjoying having the time to write again in between running her own company, Norg Media, and speaking on the future of media at various events. When she’s not doing that she’s likely to be dancing like nobody’s watching. 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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-alien-film-thats-a-true-story-sort-of/ Popular science fiction has long explored the themes of race, racial tolerance, isolation and segregation. Alien species as a metaphor for race is not rocket science and it goes as far back as 1953 with the movie It Came From Outer Space, where the aliens believe their hideous appearance will inevitably lead to conflict with humanity, and reflects the xenophobic thinking at the time, that is the “blacks” would show consideration for the “whites”. It was the sort of thinking that in turn led to one of the most tragic social-engineering laws of our time - Apartheid. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Bronwen Clune) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-alien-film-thats-a-true-story-sort-of/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-alien-film-thats-a-true-story-sort-of/#item1231 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:35:43 +0000 Bronwen Clune | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-to-get-along-with-geeks-a-seven-point-guide/ A few years ago, I worked in a co-working space called Silicon Beach House - it was our play on Silicon Valley - and everyone there was either a developer, a web designer, or running a web start-up. It was a little harem of geeks. And then there was me. My original MySpace page (yes!) is evidence that I really had no idea what I was doing back then. I still use it in presentations to show people what NOT to do on the web. I am also yet to live down the day I replaced the batteries on my mouse with rechargeable ones and had everyone in the office spend a good 20 minutes giving me tech support, before I sheepishly made the discovery. It may have happened two years ago, but when I asked my Twitter followers the other day if they had any idea why my second screen wasn’t working, someone still suggested I check the batteries. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Bronwen Clune) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-to-get-along-with-geeks-a-seven-point-guide/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-to-get-along-with-geeks-a-seven-point-guide/#item1136 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:24:16 +0000 Bronwen Clune | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/apprentices-tale-mums-dont-lose-personality-in-birth/ I have four children. That’s not an easy thing for me to admit in public. It’s not that I am ashamed of it, far from it, but it brings with it an expectation from people about how I should be/have that I don’t always live up to. Let’s just say it’s one of many well-worn-out stereotypes I don’t do well. It bothers me though that I feel compelled to somewhat mask this side of my life, not out of privacy, but for fear that my own identity will be drowned out by the din of social constructs that requires one’s personality to drop out of your vagina when giving birth to your first child. I can’t believe that “motherhood” is still in need of an image shake-up in 2009, or we at the very least we need to extend the parameters of how we expect mothers to behave. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Bronwen Clune) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/apprentices-tale-mums-dont-lose-personality-in-birth/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/apprentices-tale-mums-dont-lose-personality-in-birth/#item1014 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:25:14 +0000 Bronwen Clune | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/six-million-australians-are-selling-their-lives-to-facebook/ I am a social media whore. That’s the point of it all right? There’s a lot you can know about me from what music I listen to, what concerts I’ve been to and yes, even occasionally what I just ate. There’s even a 12 second video somewhere of me dancing in a tutu to What a Feeling by Irene Cara.  All of which I chose to share across a number of social networks I belong to that include Blip.fm, Twitter and 12seconds.tv and I’m comfortable with that. And then there’s Facebook. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Bronwen Clune) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/six-million-australians-are-selling-their-lives-to-facebook/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/six-million-australians-are-selling-their-lives-to-facebook/#item960 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:01:32 +0000 Bronwen Clune | Author bios | The Punch