Robin Williams, he was an American actor and comedian. I first knew this great actor and comedian through a great movie Dead Poet Society (1989). I became a fan of Robin Williams as I watched the movie, Patch Adams (1998)…
Lecture 5.1, Free Speech
The article you are going to read for this lecture presents an interesting case study of how people perceive the threat of hate speech in the early (i.e. 2001) Internet. Here are some things to consider/pay attention to as you…
Media freedom is threatened in Syria.
Yesterday, a beheading video of American Journalist James Foley spread through social media. He had been captured by Islamic State extremist group in 2012, and they killed him and made the beheading video labeled as a “Message to America.” John…
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…
Globalization, who are the winners?
Globalization is very controversial issue that people are arguing for a long time. There are people whose income was increased, where other group’s income merely changed, and even growing negatively. Who are the winners and losers resulted from globalization? …
Cameras on Police Officers
There seems to be absolutely no trust towards the police after the incident of John Brown in Ferguson. Missouri. The conflicting reports of John Brown’s death from the police, witnesses, and Brown’s autopsy report has citizens furious. The tragedy in Ferguson…
The Untold Stories
Cable news are thought to provide all sides of the story in an objective view when reporting news events, however, news report on the shooting incident in Ferguson started a controversy on whether the news cover every aspect of what happened.…