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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Tags: advertising, Asian American markets, desi, ethnic segmentation, India, Indian Americans, Indian TV, Multicultural advertising, multiculturalism, Satellite channels, Star TV
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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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Tags: acta, copyright, intellectual property, policy, policy sphere, policymaking
Posted in Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
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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Tags: Chilean mine rescue
Posted in Current Events, Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Print, Print, Technology, Technology, TV, TV, What Do You Think? | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: Al Jean, Banksy, credit sequence, FOX, opening credits, production, race/ethnicity, sweatshop, The Simpsons
Posted in Current Events, Global, Industry, TV | 20 Comments »
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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Tags: Fox News, fundamentalism, Quran, right-wing, Terry Jones
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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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Tags: box office, film franchise, Prince of Persia, sequels
Posted in Current Events, Film, Global, Industry | 2 Comments »
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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Tags: digital media, fandom
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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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Tags: China, Google, hackers, internet, policy
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