By Alison Harvey
Writing a text accounting for the changes in the media landscape since Liesbet van Zoonen set out her compelling and detailed overview of feminist media studies in 1994 was an inspiring and challenging task. New media forms, technologies, and culture are just the tip of the iceberg; … Read More
By Alison Harvey
Writing a text accounting for the changes in the media landscape since Liesbet van Zoonen set out her compelling and detailed overview of feminist media studies in 1994 was an inspiring and challenging task. New media forms, technologies, and culture are just the tip of the iceberg; … Read More
In my book Social Media and Everyday Politics, I examine how social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr are used for both playing with and participating in political activity,for engaging with politics. Drawing upon research that I conducted over the last few years, this work extends beyond … Read More
What is meant by The Closing of the Net? Iptegrity readers will already have their own interpretation. Closing the net entails restrictions on Internet content, applications and services. Technology companies do have the capability to impose such restrictions. They can block. They … Read More
His prolific output includes the stunning Discourse Networks 1800/1900, one of the most
Compared to most new media, the use of webcam platforms such as Skype and Facetime have crept up on us. Today, they have become almost taken for granted, at least for transnational communication, without much reflection upon their consequence.
Most people probably assume that these are not very profound. By … Read More
There has been a major international debate in recent years about whether creative industries provide new opportunities for developing countries to benefit economically from their abundant cultural resources. Studies such as UNCTAD’s Creative Economy reports, as well as UNESCO reports, have identified ways in which the creative industries offer … Read More
Osama bin Laden, leader and figurehead of al-Qaeda, the global terrorist network which shook the world with its dramatic and violent actions against the USA,Europe and beyond, was killed in May 2011 and many other leading figures in the network have suffered the same fate. The Taliban regime in … Read More
My book is a contribution to the social history of computer games. It wasn’t obvious to anyone what the first computer game programs were for when they were created in the late 1950s and early 60s. The idea of the computer game as much as the technical objects themselves had … Read More
This article was originally published on Think Africa Press, authored by James Wan.
Think Africa Press spoke to theorist Lilie Chouliaraki about how solidarity has become a consumerist choice rather than a conviction, and more about ourselves than others.
‘Doing good’ has never been easier. As clever charity adverts … Read More
In the twenty-first century, promotion is everywhere and everything has become promotable: goods, services, people, organisations, ideas, nations, cultures, pasts and futures. But where is this promotional ubiquity in modern times taking us and how are we to assess the changes it is bringing?
Over the course of a … Read More
