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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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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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 …
Read the full story »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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
In anticipation of their two day installation at CafeOTO in London’s Dalston, some information on quartet FEN (Far East Network):
A map showing the topics being discussed in Iranian blogs. No conservative poetry is being written.
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:
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 …
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