Deepthi Welaratna explores media, globalization, and popular culture
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Millennium Development Goals
UN Week is focusing on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, a set of ambitious but targeted objectives to be achieved by 2015. Learn more.
Primitive in Paris
Visits to the Cité de l’Immigration and the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades.
Globalization in Action: Avaaz
Avaaz has had a deep impact on a variety of social justice issues in just two years of existence.
Issue-Based Communications
Multimedia campaigns based on a rigorous understanding of media and policy environments, trends, and stakeholders.
Policy-Driven Events
Strategic planning on policy events from statewide televised conferences to small-scale policymaking forums.
Paris Mourns Michael Jackson
For a little while longer, there is a new sound added to the hum of Paris – a Michael Jackson soundtrack busting out from bars and clubs, compact cars, and cheap boomboxes.
The Digital Playground/Factory
People used to get paid to do what is now just as much the domain of amateurs who contribute their work for free.
Brutal New York, 1965-1995
This photo series captures the side of life too often ignored by shows like Mad Men.
NYT Edits Comments
The New York Times still believes in the authoritative voice — an attractive idea, but also outdated and dangerous.
Lions Among Us
It was an era of bronzed gods and goddesses, the likes of which had only been hinted at by 21st century Miami.
Reaching for that Platinum Baby
That’s right folks, it’s the 147th annual Living Monument to Flesh Championship Cup, and I am so honored to have been invited to welcome you all and open the games.
Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference
Critical Themes in Media Studies provides a distinguished forum for graduate students to present original scholarship on media studies and society.
Lively Movie Cameras, Laughing Soviet Workers
Creating a new score for Man with a Movie Camera, an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov.
New Website Launch
Hope To Action’s new website serves as a full-service online community site supporting women’s grassroots efforts for climate protection.
Breaking Down Our Better History
Mr. Obama’s speech displayed an acute awareness of the traditions of the past but also reflected the modern concerns of his global audience.
Constructing Photography
The author takes a closer look at the significance of photographs as cultural evidence, tying together contradictions in fact, fiction, memory, and evidence.
Global Youth Culture
Global youth culture might sound like a nice all-encompassing term, but it actually gets defined a few different ways, depending on who’s doing the defining.
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee has created an elegant elegy that follows a young girl’s journey from student to spy.
Who Can You Trust?
As the media industry has grown to a simply unmanageable number of reporting outlets, there have been marketers waiting, watching, and wondering how exactly to best take advantage of the industry.
Phases of the Image
The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned ImageThe four stages of simulacra that Baudrillard lays out in “The Precession of Simulacra” are very convincing but ultimately missing a crucial element in their makeup.
Public Works for the 21st Century
As much as I love the idea of launching a new wave of public works projects to improve our national infrastructure and create new jobs, I have a few reservations about this article.
Racial Authenticity in Multicultural Settings
Natasha Warikoo has been focusing on youth in multicultural settings, one of the most influential populations within global youth culture.
Malcolm Gladwell, Reconsidered
The irony of the sneers at Gladwell is that his latest book, Outliers, is about smart people, where they come from, why they are successful.