Posts Tagged “race”

Weekly round-up [2/19/10]: Old media memes, new media TV audiences, race + tech, and awesome uses of twitter

By | February 19, 2010

First, a couple of pieces that looks at “traditional media” concepts in light of new media practices and insights: Over at Harvard’s Berkman Center, there was a recent talk from Jure Leskovec that tracks quotations-as-memes use in news cycles. While I’m more of a qualitative gal myself, I do have to admit a certain amount […]

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Globalization and . . . no, wait, what?

By | July 3, 2009

I was all set to run a Globalization/Delight post to ease into the holiday weekend, but was instead blind-sided by this promotion for the latest LG Cyon phone — Black & White — in Korean markets: In case you missed it: yes, that is two white people, one of whom is in full-body black paint. […]

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IP or Censorship: Viacom issues take-down for racism protest

By | May 4, 2009

Recently, Viacom, in the process of of trying to “protect” their intellectual property not only managed to make copyright claims on original transformative work that is protected under fair use, they managed to censor political protest against racism in the process. (one of the revised shirt designs available at racebending.com) In one of their “routine […]

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