This week, Andrew wrote a blog titled, “Worried About Our Younger Generations Not Reading the News?” and it drew my interest. During the course of our Comm 100C Summer Session classes, the professor brought up important news stories throughout the…
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…
Palestine’s propaganda creates a story of frail children
I read an article about Palestine uses of propaganda that is written by Michael Curtis when I took a propaganda class last quarter. Throughout the article, the author writes that how Palestine propagates and appeals to people in the world.…