A Human Rights Case For Digital Media: The Persecution of Baha’is In Iran
Imagine not being able to go to college, let alone graduate school. Imagine not being able to get a government job or owning a business. Imagine not being allowed any...
Category: Issues in Globalization
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IS IT ETHICAL FOR HUMANS TO GO TO MARS GIVEN THEIR TRACK-RECORD ON EARTH?
Elon Musk loves Mars–in fact, he wants to live there, with you! The mustachioed SpaceX CEO sauntered onto stage at the 67th annual International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico in September, to announce...
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Fragile male pride in the form of a Wikipedia page?
With rapid social changes post WWII, women in Japan have become more active outside the domestic environment. This leads to several policy and attitude changes within the society. This, however,...
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The Lucidity of Frank Ocean: Rolling Orange into Blonde
Grapheme-color synesthesia is a form of a neurological phenomenon in which an individual’s perception of numerals and letters is associated with the experience of colors. Involuntarily, consistently, and in a...
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Understanding Transcultural Compatibility
Globalization theory has contributed to many forms of new expression, cultures, and values that have become widespread through present-day digital technologies. While researching the actions of visual activist culture, globalized...
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Changing the Story: Media Influence and the Chinese Credit System.
The path information takes to get from the source to the recipient is a fascinating, often troubling journey. Even reduced to the simplest possible forms of communication, philosophers,linguists, and physicists...
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Sensationalizing Media & Terrorism: The Achilles Heel of the American People
Our new media landscape has created a new, less tangible paradigm of fear. Terrorist organizations and insurgency groups (many of whom partake in terrorist activity) successfully utilize these media technologies....
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International Trade of Cultural Products: It's Complicated
A potent fear of cultural loss, homogenization, and hegemonic dominance has been a key concern for governments, civil society organizations, and ordinary citizens in recent years, in light of what...
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The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization
This essay shamelessly attempts one of the most common fads of our time: that is, taking the Internet and stuffing it into one singular box with one singular framework and...