1.
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i12/12b01301.htm?utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Formalizing net neutrality through regulation is essential to keeping the Internet from becoming compartmentalized by competing media interests.
**** 2.
http://www.arnoldporter.com/resources/documents/TEL09_Arnold%20&%20Porter_ver2.pdf
Recent developments in the US on net neutrality
Thursday, October 23, 2008
world perspectives on US economy from BBC
world perspectives on US economy from BBC
recap of some world media perspectives on the US bailout failure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7644129.stm
also, older article on impact in asia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7617976.stm
***** New post on Hwood / overseas production
HOLLYWOOD COULD GET A CUT OF THE BAILOUT
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Richard Verrier]
Hollywood would get a little unexpected boost from the proposed $700-billion bailout of the nation's financial system. The bill wending its way through Congress would provide tax breaks worth more than $470 million over the next decade for movie and TV producers that shoot in the US. That's not a lot of money, given that the average studio movie costs $106.6 million to make and market, but it could keep some low-budget productions -- and jobs -- from going offshore. Hollywood has long sought measures to curb so-called runaway production, which it blames for causing thousands of job losses in Southern California as filmmakers have fled to Canada and other foreign countries that offer cost savings through tax breaks and other incentives. One provision would provide film and TV producers with the same tax deductions that American manufacturers such as General Motors Corp., Boeing Co. and Xerox Corp. receive for making their products in the US. Specifically, the legislation would allow filmmakers who shoot in the U.S. to qualify for a tax deduction granted in 2004 to domestic manufacturers that capped the top tax rate at 32% instead of 35%. Additionally, the tax package lifts the budget cap on the existing tax deduction, which was limited to movies that cost less than $15 million to make -- in effect excluding most studio films, which cost a lot more.
http://benton.org/node/17507
recap of some world media perspectives on the US bailout failure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7644129.stm
also, older article on impact in asia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7617976.stm
***** New post on Hwood / overseas production
HOLLYWOOD COULD GET A CUT OF THE BAILOUT
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Richard Verrier]
Hollywood would get a little unexpected boost from the proposed $700-billion bailout of the nation's financial system. The bill wending its way through Congress would provide tax breaks worth more than $470 million over the next decade for movie and TV producers that shoot in the US. That's not a lot of money, given that the average studio movie costs $106.6 million to make and market, but it could keep some low-budget productions -- and jobs -- from going offshore. Hollywood has long sought measures to curb so-called runaway production, which it blames for causing thousands of job losses in Southern California as filmmakers have fled to Canada and other foreign countries that offer cost savings through tax breaks and other incentives. One provision would provide film and TV producers with the same tax deductions that American manufacturers such as General Motors Corp., Boeing Co. and Xerox Corp. receive for making their products in the US. Specifically, the legislation would allow filmmakers who shoot in the U.S. to qualify for a tax deduction granted in 2004 to domestic manufacturers that capped the top tax rate at 32% instead of 35%. Additionally, the tax package lifts the budget cap on the existing tax deduction, which was limited to movies that cost less than $15 million to make -- in effect excluding most studio films, which cost a lot more.
http://benton.org/node/17507
Think Global, Act Local
From Larissa:
This phrase was first used to encourage recycling, waste reduction campaigns, and other environmental issues. If you keep a keen eye, you will still see bumper stickers with this message (both on cars and for sale).
Here is a blurb from Wikipedia that doesn't say much by way of details, but tells us a) not first used in a corporate advert and b) hsbc was not the first company to take this approach in their marketing campaigns.
from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Feather
Think Globally, Act Locally was reportedly coined by David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, as the slogan for FOE when it was founded in 1969, although others have stated it was originated by Rene Dubos as an advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Canadian futurist Frank Feather also chaired a conference called "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally" in 1979.[1] Others suggested that this phrase is coined by French theologian Jacques Ellul.
Others later converged "global" and "local" into the single word "glocal," a term used by several companies (notably Sony Corporation and other major Japanese multinationals) in their advertising and branding strategies in the 1980s and 1990s.
Larissa added:
I also stumbled across a flip of the phrase, making it "think local, act global", coined in 1985 by Izumi Aizu (Japanese), which I thought was interesting. All this talk about "global is what local does" seems to make reference the the oft mentioned 'butterfly effect' (I think there was even a movie about that!)
from mathworld.com: In physics, it refers to how tiny changes in initial conditions (such as the flap of a butterfly's wings) manage to have far-reaching, large-scale effects on the development of the system (such as the course of weather a continent away).
This phrase was first used to encourage recycling, waste reduction campaigns, and other environmental issues. If you keep a keen eye, you will still see bumper stickers with this message (both on cars and for sale).
Here is a blurb from Wikipedia that doesn't say much by way of details, but tells us a) not first used in a corporate advert and b) hsbc was not the first company to take this approach in their marketing campaigns.
from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Feather
Think Globally, Act Locally was reportedly coined by David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, as the slogan for FOE when it was founded in 1969, although others have stated it was originated by Rene Dubos as an advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Canadian futurist Frank Feather also chaired a conference called "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally" in 1979.[1] Others suggested that this phrase is coined by French theologian Jacques Ellul.
Others later converged "global" and "local" into the single word "glocal," a term used by several companies (notably Sony Corporation and other major Japanese multinationals) in their advertising and branding strategies in the 1980s and 1990s.
Larissa added:
I also stumbled across a flip of the phrase, making it "think local, act global", coined in 1985 by Izumi Aizu (Japanese), which I thought was interesting. All this talk about "global is what local does" seems to make reference the the oft mentioned 'butterfly effect' (I think there was even a movie about that!)
from mathworld.com: In physics, it refers to how tiny changes in initial conditions (such as the flap of a butterfly's wings) manage to have far-reaching, large-scale effects on the development of the system (such as the course of weather a continent away).
Middle East media articles
Middle East media * new links added 10/10
1) from Marion:
Arab TV controversies:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=114280&d=14&m=9&y=2008
2) from Marion:
NYT article on Oprah and Saudi women
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/middleeast/19oprah.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=oprah%20saudi%20women&st=cse&oref=slogin
3) *** ex public diplomacy? US to fund pro american publicity in iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204223.html
4) IN EMIRATES, NEWSPAPERS STILL A GROWTH INDUSTRY
Spacious and airy, the newsroom of the National seems a newfangled journalistic field of dreams, with its stylish furniture, flat-panel monitors and roomy, uncluttered desks. Though the new United Arab Emirates newspaper has a daily circulation of only 70,000 to 90,000, it has grand ambitions and leaders who are bullish on print journalism. Although most newspapers are laying off reporters and editors, the English-language National, which launched in April, has quickly built an editorial staff of about 240 reporters, stringers and editors, luring many from Western papers. Newland is a former editor of London's Daily Telegraph and the business editor is from the Wall Street Journal.
1) from Marion:
Arab TV controversies:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=114280&d=14&m=9&y=2008
2) from Marion:
NYT article on Oprah and Saudi women
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/middleeast/19oprah.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=oprah%20saudi%20women&st=cse&oref=slogin
3) *** ex public diplomacy? US to fund pro american publicity in iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204223.html
4) IN EMIRATES, NEWSPAPERS STILL A GROWTH INDUSTRY
Spacious and airy, the newsroom of the National seems a newfangled journalistic field of dreams, with its stylish furniture, flat-panel monitors and roomy, uncluttered desks. Though the new United Arab Emirates newspaper has a daily circulation of only 70,000 to 90,000, it has grand ambitions and leaders who are bullish on print journalism. Although most newspapers are laying off reporters and editors, the English-language National, which launched in April, has quickly built an editorial staff of about 240 reporters, stringers and editors, luring many from Western papers. Newland is a former editor of London's Daily Telegraph and the business editor is from the Wall Street Journal.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
"China urged to extend media freedoms domestically"
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE49G26V20081019
media in Russia and caucuses articles
media in Russia and the Caucuses * new links added 10/7
1) Echo of Moscow
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/22/080922fa_fact_remnick
Interesting New Yorker article on radio station in Moscow and key role it is playing.
2) NPR story on Russian propaganda, refernces Echo of Moscow radio as an exception:
Georgia Rift Reveals Russians' Anti-U.S. Sentiment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94223401
3) VOA banned from Russia *
http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/category/radio-free-europeradio-liberty/
* I had never heard of this site before and here is a link to their 'about us' page...run by former VOA journalist and others: http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineabout.htm
4) News media feels limits of georia's democracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?ref=todayspaper
1) Echo of Moscow
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/22/080922fa_fact_remnick
Interesting New Yorker article on radio station in Moscow and key role it is playing.
2) NPR story on Russian propaganda, refernces Echo of Moscow radio as an exception:
Georgia Rift Reveals Russians' Anti-U.S. Sentiment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94223401
3) VOA banned from Russia *
http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/category/radio-free-europeradio-liberty/
* I had never heard of this site before and here is a link to their 'about us' page...run by former VOA journalist and others: http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineabout.htm
4) News media feels limits of georia's democracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?ref=todayspaper
internet usage and digital divide report
internet usage and flows *new links added 10/7
1) addresing digital divides in scotland
http://www.tegola.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
2) Internet traffic begins to bypass USwww
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html
3) UN Agency eyes curbs on internet annominity
http://benton.org/node/16797
1) addresing digital divides in scotland
http://www.tegola.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
2) Internet traffic begins to bypass USwww
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html
3) UN Agency eyes curbs on internet annominity
http://benton.org/node/16797
Friday, October 10, 2008
cultural hybridity
or, fun on you tube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR02G-K5aHY
Indian video with strong hip hop influence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFDikHWyCkg
Bulgarian pop star Azis on Music Idol
"Ken Lee" on Music Idol in Bulgaria. Just a silly clip that went around the internet earlier this year (?).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
Ok, another entertaining video of an Indian song in a very strange use of language. On one hand, we can just laugh. On the other, we should ask what it means to have linguistically hybrid music, and the influences, and what results when they are a bit off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
Bulgarian Music Idol ragga contestant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkKgHFDRRJY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR02G-K5aHY
Indian video with strong hip hop influence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFDikHWyCkg
Bulgarian pop star Azis on Music Idol
"Ken Lee" on Music Idol in Bulgaria. Just a silly clip that went around the internet earlier this year (?).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
Ok, another entertaining video of an Indian song in a very strange use of language. On one hand, we can just laugh. On the other, we should ask what it means to have linguistically hybrid music, and the influences, and what results when they are a bit off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
Bulgarian Music Idol ragga contestant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkKgHFDRRJY&feature=related
The Mediteranian diet and globalization
from hannah:
nyt article on mediterranian diet and globalization
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/world/europe/24diet.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
nyt article on mediterranian diet and globalization
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/world/europe/24diet.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
"News Media Feels Limits to Georgia's Democracy"
this links takes you to other related links as well...
http://benton.org/node/17648?utm_campaign=Benton%27s+Headlines&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2008/10/07/nid-17650&
or go straight to the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?ref=todayspaper
http://benton.org/node/17648?utm_campaign=Benton%27s+Headlines&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2008/10/07/nid-17650&
or go straight to the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?ref=todayspaper
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