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Earth Day thoughts for a mediascaped planet…

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , , , on April 22, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been posting about the Ukrainian presidential runoff elections over at UKR-TAZ, the blog I established in the wake of the 2014 Maidan revolution. (See Four theses on Ukrainian politics and Politics as reality-FB.) The gist of my comments is relevant to the study of social media’s impacts on political and cultural change in general, […]

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inside job

Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DRm5ES-uA?fs=1&hl=en_US It’s not as good a film as I would have liked — there are too many talking heads, and director/interviewer Charles Ferguson (who remains conveniently invisible throughout) has an annoying tendency to look for “gotcha” moments, when his interview subjects hesitate and stumble in answering his questions, as if these provide the smoking gun […]

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