Postlude: thank you for a good year
March 25, 2010 – 10:01 pm | No Comment

Last day at work – last seminar – last postlude at the Carousel!  Wishing you all now good luck on the essay crunch and I will see you all on the other side.  Do let …

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Who are you cheering for in the World Cup?
June 7, 2010 – 12:29 pm | No Comment

I’m gutted that Sweden hasn’t qualified for this year’s World Cup. Last time it happened – the only time in the last 20 years – I was just 17 years old. So who should I …

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Pakistan bans Facebook
May 22, 2010 – 11:07 am | 5 Comments

Now that I have your attention with the title of this post, the real story behind this post is to discuss whether campaigns like “Draw Muhammad Day” are really more attempts at increasing the divides …

Postlude: thank you for a good year
March 25, 2010 – 10:01 pm | No Comment
Postlude: thank you for a good year

Last day at work – last seminar – last postlude at the Carousel!  Wishing you all now good luck on the essay crunch and I will see you all on the other side.  Do let …

Addicted in Afghanistan
March 14, 2010 – 5:02 pm | No Comment

Last Thursday, on March 11 2010, SOAS held the London Premiere of the film “Addicted in Afghanistan.”  Khalili Lecture Theatre was packed at 6:00 pm from people who had been queing up since 5:15 pm …

Digital resistance in Zimbabwe
February 21, 2010 – 6:05 pm | No Comment
Digital resistance in Zimbabwe

Following on from my previous post about the digital divide not being the internet’s fault, I thought I’d write about some more practical stuff. As the benevolent dictator said: ‘Ttheory is good only as far as it connects to something’. So in this post I’ll be looking at digital activism in Zimbabwe – sokwanele.com and kubatana.net.

is terrorism the accident of global mass media?
February 8, 2010 – 10:31 am | One Comment
is terrorism the accident of global mass media?

Mentioned this old old essay from 2003 in the theory reading group on Virilio so I thought it would nice to re-air it here.  This essay was actually an interactive multimedia presentation where clicking on …

Surely the digital divide is not the internet’s fault?
February 2, 2010 – 8:27 pm | 4 Comments
Surely the digital divide is not the internet’s fault?

Recently I’ve been having quite a few conversations about social media where people are expressing quite a high level of scepticism. A common view is that we should be careful when promoting social media because not everyone has access to the necessary technology to use it.

FEN :: the horns that sound in Dalston
February 1, 2010 – 12:09 pm | One Comment
FEN :: the horns that sound in Dalston

In anticipation of their two day installation at CafeOTO in London’s Dalston, some information on quartet FEN (Far East Network):

Map of the Iranian blogosphere
February 1, 2010 – 10:23 am | One Comment
Map of the Iranian blogosphere

A map showing the topics being discussed in Iranian blogs. No conservative poetry is being written.

chasing the long tail of climate change – part 2
January 29, 2010 – 12:24 pm | No Comment
chasing the long tail of climate change – part 2

Knowledge works in mysterious ways. So just to give you Carouselians an idea of what is going on, here is a recent conference proposal I will probably submit for the IAMCR conference in Braga, Portugal this summer (together with a friend of mine). The abstract below:

the mass media and democracy in developing countries
January 28, 2010 – 4:40 pm | 2 Comments

There is a presumption held by many that a pluralist media system enables an open and free debate on political and social issues and a flow of  accurate news reporting. In countries that have recently …