*** Image 1 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 2 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 3 Source: Carol Lan, @carolbluelan For more on: visual rhetoric Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Lee, Eunji, Jung-Ah Lee, Jang Ho Moon, … [Read more...]
Trump, TPP, and Globalization
For next class, Courtney, Evans, and I will be leading a discussion on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), as well as how Donald Trump’s opposition to the TPP is embedded in a broader anti-trade sentiment and his “America First” foreign policy. Please read the four attached articles and come prepared to discuss what a Trump presidency means for globalization: Globalization … [Read more...]
Sid Sriram: “A cocktail of Indian and Western influences”
Sid Sriram is an American-Indian jazz and blues artist. At the age of three, he began learning Carnatic music from his mother at her institution in San Francisco, then trained under Padmabushan Sri PS Narayanaswamy in 2002. In 2008, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and honed in on R&B, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel music. The Fader praises Sriram’s ability to … [Read more...]
Social Activism, Technology, and the Generation Gap
Jeffery S. Juris' "The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements" discusses a lot of what I already know: new digital technologies are being used to build networks, practice media activism, and physically manifest their emerging political ideals. These new platforms have much power and potential for growth, and have not been taken … [Read more...]
French Cinema: Resistance of Americana Hegemony
Daya Kushan Thussu's "Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra-Flow" article primarily focuses on the US-led Western media flow as opposed to the "subaltern flow" of content from the global South to the North. Although French media is unambiguously Western, its film industry offers a unique case study of state-sponsored resistance of Americana hegemony. In 1989, the European … [Read more...]
