http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/sarah-lux/ Sarah Lux is an intellectual property lawyer at an international firm and lectures in law at the University of New South Wales. She is a co-editor of The Social Interface (http://www.thesocialinterface.com), a multi-disciplinary blog on the social implications of technology.  She has previously worked with the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-world-of-warcraft-could-save-your-life/ Mothers and girlfriends worldwide have long yelled at errant sons and partners for being overly fixated on a video game.  This week, however, a group of gamers and scientists demonstrated that proficiency in World of Warcraft may be worth more than the geek cred it achieves. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology has published an advance online copy of a paper that explains how enjoyment of and technical skills in playing video games can be harnessed to achieve remarkable outcomes in scientific research. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sarah Lux) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-world-of-warcraft-could-save-your-life/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-world-of-warcraft-could-save-your-life/#item6775 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:40:23 +0000 Sarah Lux | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/You-might-be-dead-but-you-can-still-win-arguments/ Since the dawn of life, there has been death. And since the dawn of death, there have been endless vain attempts, some gallant and some desperate, some real and some imagined, some tragic and some inspiring, to grasp the key that unlocks immortality. One of the earliest literary works, the Epic of Gilgamesh, is preserved on twelve clay tablets recovered from the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal’s ancient library collection and depicts a hero’s search for the secret to everlasting life. Jumping forward almost two thousand years, Oscar Wilde’s fictional character Dorian Gray was consumed by his desire for eternal youth. The human preoccupation with preventing death is as alive today as it was in the times of Ashurbanipal and Wilde. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sarah Lux) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/You-might-be-dead-but-you-can-still-win-arguments/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/You-might-be-dead-but-you-can-still-win-arguments/#item6003 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:50:30 +0000 Sarah Lux | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/julian-assange-betraying-his-own-hacker-ideals/ The name Julian Assange has become synonymous with a number of freedoms. Freedom of information, freedom of expression, freedom of the press - Assange and many of his supporters champion the right of human beings to communicate with each other without governmental intervention. In his public statements, Assange appears to reject outright the legitimacy of restrictions by governments on their people’s freedoms to speak and to access information. In March 2008, he called on his volunteers to defend absolute freedom: “it is time to sum the great freedoms of every nation and not subtract them. It is time for the world as an international collective of communicating peoples to arise and say ‘here I am’”. Arising and saying “here I am” is something Assange is good at. We saw this most recently in his surprise video-stoush with Julia Gillard on last night’s Q&A. The televised appearance formed part of the ongoing struggle by the “Cypherpunk Revolutionary” to liberate individual freedoms from the stranglehold of the state. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sarah Lux) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/julian-assange-betraying-his-own-hacker-ideals/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/julian-assange-betraying-his-own-hacker-ideals/#item5387 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:15:54 +0000 Sarah Lux | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-revolution-will-be-twitterised/ The notion that one person’s status update can spark a revolution has gained momentum in recent years.  The “Twitter Revolution” is now a familiar concept. Before it was applied to the current protests in Egypt, the term was used to describe the election riots in Moldova and Iran in 2009 and last year’s Tunisian street demonstrations. As well as being an attractive media catch-word, the moniker has been regarded as apt because the political upheaval in each of these cases was organised using technological networking tools, including SMS, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Social networks are powerful instruments for connecting and uniting strangers with common objectives.  The Obama 08 campaign was fought perhaps most intensely on the internet, where followers were offered intimate access to “Obama Everywhere” (or at least on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Black Planet, MiGente, LinkedIn, MyBatanga and DNC Partybuilder). feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sarah Lux) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-revolution-will-be-twitterised/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-revolution-will-be-twitterised/#item5122 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:40:13 +0000 Sarah Lux | Author bios | The Punch