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Capitalizing on Multiculturalism: “Premium” Indian American Audiences and “American” advertisers

December 20, 2010
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Capitalizing on Multiculturalism: “Premium” Indian American Audiences and “American” advertisers

If we think of efforts by “American” entities to access “Indian American” spaces of culture, capital labor, and belonging as symptomatic of emergent modalities of the transnational, might we be able to see subtle shifts in the discourse of multiculturalism in the contemporary moment?
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The ACTA Retreat: Their Ignorance, And Ours

October 21, 2010
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The ACTA Retreat:  Their Ignorance, And Ours

The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue

October 15, 2010
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue

The rescue of a group of Chilean miners this week has become a media phenomenon. We want your opinion on it all.
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Simpsonic Business as Usual?

October 11, 2010
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Simpsonic Business as Usual?

Last night, the Banksy-directed opening credit sequence “couch gag” for The Simpsons took us into the sweatshop behind the franchise. As executive producer Al Jean noted, “This is what you get when you outsource.”
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What the Quran Burning Episode is NOT About

September 15, 2010
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What the Quran Burning Episode is NOT About

As the media hand-wringing continues over whether Rev. Terry Jones's Quran book-burning stunt deserved so much media attention, commentators miss the more important points about this episode and its relationship to contemporary political culture.
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The Lingering Power of the Domestic Box Office

June 11, 2010
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The Lingering Power of the Domestic Box Office

International audiences seem to dig Jake Gyllenhaal’s abs more than Americans do – but is that enough to save the Prince of Persia film franchise?
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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D

June 7, 2010
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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D

The information and communication technologies for development (ITC4D) initiative can and should be more than developmentalism. How can we think more broadly about the pleasures of engaging with emerging media?
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Google leaving China?

January 13, 2010
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Google leaving China?

In a quiet blog post with major ramifications, Google announces that it is no longer willing to censor search results in China. What happens next?
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