Category Archives: Examples and Analysis
Henry Yu’s editorial from the Vancouver Sun
“Maclean’s must answer for racial profiling: Asian-Canadians aren’t just being too sensitive. There’s a history behind their reaction to the magazine’s ‘Too Asian’? article” By Henry Yu, Vancouver Sun November 27, 2010 In the weeks since the Maclean’s article ‘ … Continue reading
Iconic Media as Propapaganda
In the context of the Media and Threat topic, I could think of no better example of the use of media for political ends and to regime opposition than Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin. Here is a 6-minute … Continue reading
Art – Media or Message
One final post that captured, in my mind, the blurry division between content and media. This artist won a recent TED prize for his work in creating large printed photos of people (primarily) and posting them directly into conflict and … Continue reading
Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution
This video has direct relevance to Week 2 – Media Effects and the debate on social networking tools, protests, and democracy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvJxasiSZ8 Wael Ghonim is an Egyptian national and Google company executive who created the original Facebook page that set … Continue reading
Commemoration of the Nation-State: 60th Anniversary of the PRC
A group of students from Colgate University produced a short video about monuments and places of commemoration in the People’s Republic of China. It is the third down, “Untitled” by Lauren Graves and Lauren Paverman. Note the use of “jumbotrons” … Continue reading
Guardian: The truth about Twitter, Facebook and the uprisings in the Arab world
Guardian article: “The truth about Twitter, Facebook and the uprisings in the Arab world: Recent events in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt have been called ‘Twitter revolutions’ – but can social networking overthrow a government? Our correspondent reports from the Middle East on … Continue reading
Great Guide to Chinese Microblog Sina Weibo
“Inside Sina Weibo” posted February 21, 2011, at DigiCha Yet another interesting article on social media in China–in this case, how to read and analyze it. Our next task should be locating similar information for other Asia Pacific vernaculars!
Censorship and Microblogging in China
“How microbloggers vault the ‘Great Firewall of China’” from CNN World, by Peter Shadbolt, February 20, 2011. Communicating without keywords to avoid automated censorship. Misspellings and cryptic slang have been used in the English language online world since its beginnings … Continue reading
Social Media and Protest Movements – the Debate
Here is a collection of articles taking differing sides of this debate. The main discussion took place in The New Yorker and Foreign Affairs recently. However, I’ve added some peripheral readings to supplement. So as not to overload reading, my … Continue reading
Grass Mud Horse in China
This is from a few years ago, circa 2009. At the time the Grass Mud Horse concept surfaced among netizens in China as a way to criticize online censorship. The Chinese translation of Grass Mud Horse is a homonym for … Continue reading
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