China’s rampant movie piracy has given rise to an alternative film culture. Through the viral infrastructure of pirate circulation and consumption, an active cineaste culture of “D-buffs” and an independent film practice, the “D-generation,” have rapidly emerged and expanded in…

This article provides a series of notes that define, describe, and theorize the concept of hype as a pertinent one for the field of media and communication studies. I argue that hype helps to explain a common and powerful dynamic…

This article is a case study of The Christian Science Monitor’s move to a Web-first publication after the close of its print daily. We focus on three key points in the change process, which we observed through field visits to…

Since the 1990s, building the “information city” has emerged as an important issue in urban development. This phenomenon began in the United States and Europe, and since then such development has been pursued in countries in the Asia-Pacific region. To…

There are 18 Islamic universities and institutes in Indonesia, and each offers some sort of journalism education. These courses are not located in the social sciences, but rather in schools of dakwah, where they are seen as key elements of…

The current scientific vocabulary is one vocabulary among others . . . there is no need to give it primacy, nor to reduce other vocabularies to it.

~Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 142

Interesting philosophy is…

The lack of effective communication about climate risk has contributed to improper interpretation of scientific findings pertaining to climate change and to poor mobilization of vulnerable groups for developing appropriate response actions. This article describes communication efforts undertaken in Ghana,…

The 2006 Democratic primary in New York’s 11th Congressional District saw opposition from the blogosphere to David Yassky, a White legislator running for election in a district created under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s account…

This article aims to understand to what extent the news-gathering factor explained global news coverage of the 2009 Iranian election. It examines the differences and similarities between the BBC and Al Jazeera English (AJE) pre-election coverage of the 2009 Iranian…

In the late-1970s, the United States Postal Service (USPS) launched an innovative electronic mail service, “E-COM,” that sought to integrate networked computing and the postal system. Postal management envisioned E-COM as a path-breaking program that would carve out a key…