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Cover of Overland 247. Cover design is a painting by Hop Dac, of a pink wall and floor, with an orange cabinet, a beaded door curtain, and a brown rabbit lying on the floor.

247 Winter 2022

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Gregory Marks on Wake In Fright, Lachlan Summers on the naming of storms, Jack Kirne on colonialism and climate literature, plus new fiction and poetry from Laurie Steed, Karen A Johnson, Yeena Kirkbright, Holly Isemonger, joanne burns, and the winner of the 2021 Nakata Brophy Prize.

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Jack Kerr

Jack Kerr is journalist (The Guardian, ABC, Vice, Der Spiegel, etc), radio documentary maker and former lecturer in Online Journalism at RMIT.

Articles by Jack Kerr:

11 September 20156 October 2015

The machines read so you don’t have to

Jack Kerr

Interactivity is considered one of the defining features of the online experience, yet the reality of most media consumers today is one defined by interpassivity. And it presents a serious challenge for those of us engaged in online journalism.