Digital reality and social media can release a person’s ability of self-expression and challenge people to communicate well. New Media, according to our Lievrouw reading, involves reappropriation, networking, ubiquity and user participation. The brilliant Benjamin Bratton of UCSD critiques social…
Habitation for the Global Village!
In response to an influx of refugees from Syria, the International corporation of Ikea has pooled resources, research and survey work with the UN’s to design, produce and donate sturdy camp homes to the newly-homeless refugees. This article includes a blueprint of…
Jihad popular in Britain–brief post
So far in class and through readings we’ve talked about globalization, the spread of propaganda–and upcoming, freedom of speech. I thought that the recent ISIS video’s link with Britain would be interesting to look into, because it is a good…
Can Digitized Circulation Preserve Traditions?
Hafez notes that even though technology would allow media to flow across national borders, it still tends to flow within cultural groups. Since music is statistically the thing that crosses cultural borders most frequently, I am going to write about…
One story, many Views: What are ‘Radicals’ thinking? Symbols of Islam in Various News Sources.
Lots of discussion about militant groups in the Middle East is floating around. The United States has its own history with these conflicts but it is not alone; China has an ongoing conflict with the Muslim Uighur minority, a historical…
Looking at a Practice of Journalism & Dissemination of News Among Worldwide Asian Diaspora.
Many of CCTVNews’s facebook status posts include screen snapshots of popular twitter feeds, use references to conversation on Twitter. But they rarely linked to longer, business-like articles. I used google to find the more legitimate-looking, ‘official’ versions of the CCTVNews articles on…