Deepthi Welaratna explores media, globalization, and popular culture
Writing
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.
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.
1989 Reviews in Romanian
A portrait of the last days of the Communist era in Eastern Europe, 1989 takes its form and mood from the dramatic decline of the Ceausescu regime that dominated Romania for over two decades.
Society of the Spectacle
Debord’s ideas have left their mark on modern thinkers in a number of areas, including but hardly limited to media studies and youth culture studies.
I love Wikipedia
Where else would I discover that even though the Hegelian Dialectical model was named after Hegel, he never employed it himself and in fact denounced it?
Global Youth Culture
By introducing the term global youth culture and tracing its roots, Kahn and Kellner pave the way for future work on the population linked to it.
Kyocera Will Save Your Soul
Mobile devices are often marketed as lifestyle products, and the myth underlying this striking image may surprise you.
The Marketplace of Participation
The marketplace of participation produces culture out of a base of user-created content, collaborative tools, and networked communities.
Immigrant Adolescents as Culture Brokers
Immigrant children and adolescents are often called upon to mediate or broker their parents’ relationships with the larger community.
Slumdog Millionaire is a Winner
With Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle expands to a global landscape that is the perfect match for his universal vision.
The Uneasy Relationship: Advertising and Content
A strange polemic exists in advertising — drawing on the universal and appealing to the specific are the two most successful ways to connect.
Signs of the Time, in No Particular Order
The Whitney Museum’s current exhibit comprises one intimate room displaying contemporary photography in a wide range of styles.
Video Migration from TV to the Internet
The new forum for presenting video on the Internet has largely led to democratization of the form.