Mon 8.11.08| Young At Work
How big of a problem is child labor, and should we be concerned only about underage factory workers and child prostitution abroad? Peter Dorman describes the nature and consequences of child labor and...
View ArticleMon 8.01.11| Murdoch and the British State
While revelations about the unsavory methods of Rupert Murdoch's media empire fill the newspapers, his role in supporting the neoliberal transformation of the UK -- first under Margaret Thatcher, then...
View ArticleMon 7.21.14 | Stuart Hall on Representations in the Media
The mass media represents a variety of things, phenomena, and events in certain ways, and media consumers constantly take in those representations and images. Stuart Hall investigated the nature of...
View ArticleWed 2.25.15 | Indymedia and the Cyber Left
Often disparaged, the internet has become both a key tool for social movements and a way for activists to tell their own stories. Inspired by the Zapatistas, media activists blazed a trail, and...
View ArticleMon 11.09.15 | Intimacy Against Alienation
Is a romantic partner a replacement for the community that people used to rely on to meet their material and emotional needs? Mitch Monsour thinks so; he points to the competitive and individualistic...
View ArticleTues 2.09.16 | Globalization, Ideology, and the Media
We're constantly taking in media representations of things and events. Stuart Hall investigated the nature of those representations, their impact on us, and the ways in which we can and do respond. He...
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