Deepthi Welaratna explores media, globalization, and popular culture
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Postmodernity in Howl’s Moving Castle
Both the novel and the film versions of Howl’s Moving Castle transcend genre labels and reside in the uneasy, rugged terrain of postmodernism.
Internationalize Your Website
Translating websites for audiences with different languages and regions is a tricky process. Read on for the complications and the rewards.
Erica Koch, Innovation Officer, UNICEF
Erica Kochi of the Innovation Unit at UNICEF talks about the potential of mobile phones to help us reach the Millennium Development Goals.
Lucy Chesire, TB Activist
An international activist on TB from Kenya, Lucy Chesire talks about her work and what it’s going to take from citizens and governments to combat TB.
Anita Sharma, UN Millennium Campaign
Anita Sharma talks about the UN Millennium Campaign and the role women and girls can play in helping achieve the eight millennium development goals by 2015.
UN Week Digital Media Lounge
Reporting live from the UN Week Digital Media Lounge. Video interviews with women leaders and more.
Imagining a New State: Image and Activism in Iran
The dynamics of the Iranian election protests signal a shift in collective action and state power structures and raise questions about new models of governance and decision-making.
Cleaning Coal: The Battle to Rebrand Coal
What exactly is “clean coal”? Who’s trying to persuade Americans to invest once more in a long discredited form of energy?
Thai Temple Nurtures Community
The Thai Buddhist Temple in Berkeley attracts thousands of visitors to its famous weekend brunch. But for a few, a richer experience awaits.
Audience-Focused Research
Thoughtful research strategies including media audits, competitive analyses, focus groups, and online surveys.
Weights + Measures: A System of Relative Values
Considers how linear animation can evolve into a data-driven exploration of relative measures through database aesthetics, emergence in visual systems, and the unique properties of multi-stream visual storytelling.
Icons Past and Present: Face And Community
From the 10th annual Critical Themes in Media Studies conference at The New School.
Resistance and Difference across Global Media
Sample syllabus for “Intertextual Representations of Resistance and Difference across Global Media”
Postmodernism in Howl’s Moving Castle
Howl’s Moving Castle leaps from the English printed page to the animated Japanese voice. Whose story is it?
No Easy Answers: M.I.A. and the Politics of Pop
In a 2009 interview, M.I.A. called the civil war in Sri Lanka a genocide and compared it to Nazi-Germany. What lies behind M.I.A.’s contentious claim?
Poverty Porn: Reinforcing the Imperialist Gaze
Why the “poverty porn” argument actually reinforces the very imperialist gaze it seeks to undercut.
Mad Men Can Never Be Happy
Why can’t these characters seem to create a normal moment of happiness for themselves?
Natural Fuse at Towards the Sentient City
The project addresses not only power generation and balance, but also embeds a community regulation mechanism.