The 15th London Palestine Film Festival organizes experimental, documentary and drama pre-festival events at three venues across London.

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For those in and around London next week, you may be interested in a forthcoming event on documentary practices from India, including screenings, conversations and discussions on the theory and practice of selected films and …

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As I sit here breathless in London, flicking channels between Al Jazeera English, BBC, CNN and France 24, in anxiety and excitement to see what Hosni Mubarak will announce within the hour, I look back …

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From Gareth Bentley, who runs the Transnational News course.

‘Academics often think decisions are made for ideological reasons when, in fact, it’s happenstance, technology not working or lack of money. News is a pretty random business in many …

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Yesterday I went to my first protest in London. What I saw there shocked me, and not because of the violence that the press is so hyper to write about, where the focus of attention …

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‘Blogfather’ and SOAS student Hossein ‘Hoder’ Derakhshan has been temporarily released from Iran’s notorious Evin Prison on bail totaling $1.5 million. Hossein, who was arrested in late 2008 and has spent the last two years …

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Having been involved in the early baby poops of Project: Carousel! – it is a delight to see the new buzz of energy here.  I am also glad to have handed the reins over to …

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The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, and Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France, made the following statement on 20 October 2010 concerning Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, who …

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Every year PEN Canada hosts an annual benefit which also serves as the launch for Toronto’s International Festival of Authors.  And every year, there is an empty chair on stage, symbolizing an imprisoned writer who …

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Hossein Derakhshan is a journalist, Internet activist, blogger and SOAS student, nicknamed the Blogfather for spawning Iran’s spectacular blogging revolution. Since the mid-1990s, he has been advocating the use of the Internet as a means …

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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 …

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:

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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 …

With all the stuff going on in Haiti, I thought it’d be interesting to look at some of the digital mapping being carried out by Ushahidi.

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As some of you may recall a few months back when we set up the website, I said that at least a familiarity of new social media such as Twitter should be mandatory for all …

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The 10th Palestinian Film Festival will by hosted by the Barbican Center and our very own SOAS. Starting from the 24th of April, running till the 8th of May there will be movies, talks, a …

With promises of revolution we sallied forth, the 4th Oekonux [http://www.oekonux.org/] …Was to determine the particular erosion and subsequent rebirth of the global information economy as an open source and democratically created multiplicity. Its tentacles where now spreading into areas previously considered the provision of goods for which exchange value was the sole determinant of worth… When local ‘Fab Labs’ [http://fab.cba.mit.edu/] build and rent mobility aids (cars [http://www.cmmn.org/]) designed collectively and with open source blueprints making money through extra services such as autopilots what does this mean for traditional notions of working and value creation?
Lots of questions! So much hope, you could smell the sweaty Marxist palms worn smooth with the wringing, but lets go to the beginning.

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Being “detained” at a peaceful demonstration last night (April 1) was on the edge of being extremely uneasy and beautifully fun. 

The Climate Camp was set up on the block of Bishops Gate where the European …

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Screening of award-winning new documentary Doormat
Followed by Q&A with Director Christy Garland and Chris Mitchell (ORTV) Friday March 20 7:00 PM at the FRONTLINE CLUB
3 Norfolk Place London w2 1QJ
Entry: Free with reservation
To book …