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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...

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Mon 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...

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Mon 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...

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Wed 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...

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Mon 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...

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Tues 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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