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Category Archives: Media and Politics
Mar 24 2013
Book Review: Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity
Leave a commentTweet In an age when the United Nations has declared access to the Internet a human right, and universal access to high-speed broadband is a goal for many countries, urban areas have been largely ignored by federal policy. The cost … Continue reading
Posted by: March 24, 2013
Tagged with: cities, digital citizenship, digital literacy, internet, online, urban redevelopment, urban studies, USA
Mar 17 2013
Book Review: Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
Leave a commentTweet In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects such as smart phones to … Continue reading
Posted by: March 17, 2013
Tagged with: media, mediation, New Media, privacy, social media
Feb 10 2013
Book Review: Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World
1 CommentTweet Although Al Jazeera English has yet to receive to receive the attention accorded to its Arabic-language elder sibling, it is in many ways the more interesting of the two. It seeks to redefine global news coverage by focusing on … Continue reading
Posted by: February 10, 2013
Tagged with: Al Jazeera English, Global News, Philip Seib
Feb 3 2013
Book Review: Think Tanks In America
Leave a commentTweet Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who … Continue reading
Posted by: February 3, 2013
Tagged with: think tanks, thomas medvetz
Jan 20 2013
Book Review: Social Media as Surveillance: rethinking visibility in a converging world
1 CommentTweet Within a few years social media has become an ordinary part of our everyday lives. So too increasingly have fears about the impact this technology has had on privacy. In Social Media As Surveillance Daniel Trottier presents empirical research with a range of … Continue reading
Posted by: January 20, 2013
Tagged with: privacy, social media, surveillance
Jan 13 2013
Book Review: The Culture and Politics of Street Gang Memoirs
1 CommentTweet Josephine Metcalf’s close examination of the emergence of three Los Angeles gangland autobiographies and their literary receptions focuses on an important social issue and is ultimately a daring read for the way it intellectualises an area most would assume is of … Continue reading
Posted by: January 13, 2013
Tagged with: jo taylor, josephine metcalf, street gangs
Dec 16 2012
Book Review: Illuminating the Dark Arts of War: Terrorism, Sabotage, and Subversion in Homeland Security and the New Conflict
1 CommentTweet In this book, terrorism, sabotage, and subversion are analyzed to challenge the dominant views that a ‘new conflict’ is now posing unprecedented threats to U.S. homeland security. Since 9/11, the dominant view is that we have entered an era … Continue reading
Posted by: December 16, 2012
Tagged with: homeland security, terrorism
