I know that lots of people have lots to say about this, so I’ll give a brief introduction. Sony Playstation Network and its associated online services released an update to the Terms of Service which explicitly states that users must agree to give up their right to sue and be a part of a class (as […]
I wrote this op-ed for CNN and I thought you might find it interesting. Two days ago, I learned about two young people killed by drug gangs in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, their corpses bound and hung from a bridge. Unfortunately, drug murders happen so often in Mexico that they are not […]
So, I know I’m using emancipation very loosely here. Saying emancipation begs the question: Emancipation from what? I’m trying to cheekily hark back to early ideas of the Internet as a space that can emancipate us from mass culture by making us all producers and consumers of cultural products. Nowadays, most of us accept that the cultural production […]
By the end of the first workshop, we had turned a enormous range of ideas into five groupings of discussion topics. If we started with a sky full of stars, by the end we had formed them into loose constellations. Now, looking ahead towards the second workshop in April 2012, we want to sharpen this […]
The Cultural Studies podcast, hosted by Toby Miller, has posted its latest interview, with our own Nick Couldry. Nick narrates his academic career and offers glimpses of his forthcoming book, Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity), which he calls: “An attempt to think about the implications for my earlier work on media […]