Tag: Media
26 Articles
- Society & Culture
Good Evening, Europe: The Politics of the European Imaginary at the Eurovision Song Contest
A Mediated Version of “Europe” The Eurovision Song Contest is committed to its “proud tradition of celebrating diversity through music.” Although the contest’s origins…
August 14, 2025
- Society & Culture
Sympathy for the K-Drama
The K-Drama Over the past several years audiences around the globe have become fans of K-dramas such as Crash Landing on You, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, The Glory, and dozens of…
June 11, 2024
- Conflict & Security
TikTok: A Casualty of US-China Geopolitical and Economic Tensions?
In March 2023, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reportedly recommended banning or divesting from TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is based…
May 19, 2023
- Human Rights & Development
From Satanism to Genocide: Moral Panic and White Supremacy in South Africa
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, as it became increasingly clear that South Africa’s apartheid system of minority rule was neither functional nor tenable, White society…
May 12, 2023
- Human Rights & Development
Routine Observance of Human Rights in Shadow of an Unresolved Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: External vs. Internal Locus of Responsibility
Human Rights in a De Facto State: The Locus of Responsibility The Second Karabakh War of 2020 not only shifted the geopolitical balance in the South Caucasus but also created a…
April 6, 2023
- Dialogues
Adom Getachew on Anticolonial Worldmaking of the Past and Present
GJIA: Plenty of historical literature and political theory already exists on the decolonization period, but the reorientations to the Black Atlantic and global transformative…
February 13, 2023
- Society & Culture
The Politics of Eurovision after the Invasion of Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had profound consequences for the world. In addition to humanitarian concerns, ramifications for oil and gas prices and global supply chains…
May 9, 2022
- Conflict & Security
After Christchurch: Hard Questions for Policymakers
Social Media-Fueled TerrorismOn March 15, 2019, a white nationalist terrorist shot and killed fifty-one people and injured forty more at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand…
February 27, 2021
- Business & Economics
Argentina’s New Media Regulations Create Jitters over Information Control
Stop the Presses A price freeze for telephone, cable, and Internet services in Argentina has raised concerns that the new government is increasing control over communications…
January 19, 2021
- Society & Culture
Take the Redpill: Understanding the Allure of Conspiratorial Thinking Among Proud Boys
To understand the Proud Boys, it is important to understand one of the primary stages of their recruitment, “taking the redpill.” The redpill is the gateway into the…
September 7, 2020