... South elaborated a wide-ranging structural critique of the status quo, arguing that developing mass media required decolonizing international networks and global governance practices that perpetuated media inequality. But over the course of the decade, UNESCO began to invite research and expertise from...

...Ximena Espeche Abstract Operation Truth (Operación Verdad) was the Cuban Revolution’s first major intervention in the global mass media. In late January 1959, the revolutionary government invited journalists and politicians from around the world to witness the trials and executions of individuals...

... documentary Cold War global media journalism Copyright © 2021 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2021 The CBC would distribute a documentary on Algeria just a few years later, Algeria—What Price Freedom (1964). Algeria exemplified a nation in transition marked by faith...

... information about their own governments. The notion that such a leak could foster any kind of “transparency” was thus seen as suspect — and in some cases, the cables themselves were seen as fabrications. If Cablegate was a “global” media event in 2010 – 11, it was one that revealed persistent tensions...

...Niki Akhavan This book review compares Mehdi Semati's Media, Culture, and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State and Nasrin Alavi's We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs . Both works recognize the significance of media in shaping and understanding contemporary Iranian society...

...Kristopher Imbrigotta With the onset and proliferation of today's twenty-four-hour mass media culture, war in particular has become—and will continue to be—very photogenic. But can we rely on what we see? What is missing from that message? Strictly speaking, Marxist thinkers and critics have been...

... quota system. Claiming that the new law discriminated against Europeans, Irish advocates framed their campaign as an effort to diversify the post-1965 immigrant pool, which was predominantly Asian and Latin American. By examining the rhetoric deployed in congressional hearings and media appearances...

... data, mainstream media, and recent activist projects like Letters for Black Lives, this essay critiques the notion of “empathy” as a foundation for meaningful multiracial alliance. Solidarity based on notions of shared suffering can create a false equivalence between different experiences of racialized...

... transnational character—globally networked, media-rich computers unfettered by national or geographic boundaries—that allows for multiple users in multiple loca- tions to communicate, organize, and access data and transcend time and space by meeting in cyberspace...

... means of broadcasting to subvert and defy the imbalance that characterizes the global media scape.18 In the following section we will show how the party uses the filmed operations to advance and promote a narrative opposed to the mainstream dominant narrative of the Israeli-Arab conflict...

... question, the new flows of information enabled by a networked, digital world have changed the global mediascape, but the impact of these changes is less clear. Studying the intersection of digital media and politi- cal life, Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos argue that it is often assumed...

.... The increasingly cen- tralized, corporate media bombard the public with distracting entertain- ment, information overload, and manipulative co-optation. Meanwhile, the global commons-and with it the ability of the ecosphere to sustain life-is progressively endangered. Despite, or rather because...

... focus of Eakins’s rowers and the grit of Bellows’s backroom fights are replaced by a global media economy as hard to represent as is the “real” of the wrestler’s grip. The real, understood as a vanishing point around which a represen- tational system is organized, shifts from flesh to capital...

... for their comments and suggestions. Ben Cohen also read a draft and provided much valuable wit and direction. 1. Global media attention was also diverted by an earthquake that struck neighboring Iran on April 10, 1972, killing thousands. 2. “Mercury in Fish: Cause for Concern?” FDA Consumer Magazine...

... black origins outside Mexico, and perpetuate the myth that Afro-Mexicans hail from “somewhere else.” Layered across local Mexican understandings about African presence are global media representations of African diaspora people that come from television broadcasts. Images of North American...

... to benefi t from the system; unemployed workers suffering in the global economy; or the elderly who have not had their needs met. One of the goals of radi- cal media is, in fact, to enable those alienated from mainstream media to create, produce, and spread...

... of American aggression against the people of Vietnam. What does this mean? First it suggests that these media traits are highly relevant to activists trying to raise public consciousness about global capitalism, the role of the IMF or WTO, etc. But second, I am also suggesting that activists...

... influence on the Global New Left were the turn to arms and dissemination of “foco” theory, the works in this section suggest Cuba’s more complex legacy in contributing to the sensibility and subjectivity of the New Left. The “Cultural Diplomacy and Mass Media” section begins with Ximena Espeche’s essay...

... Greta Thunberg, a fourteen-year-old Swede, who posted to various social media platforms a photo of herself protesting climate change in front of her school in 2018. What happened thereafter is now known as the “Greta effect”—the rapid transformation into global influencer. Rather than news being spread...

... not account for the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on racial minorities and global South countries. In this teaching essay, the author describes how his course on the history of HIV/AIDS takes a global approach to highlight that the AIDS crisis is not over. Starting with histories of HIV/AIDS...