"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

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

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

BBC report on Kurdish media on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njiGsCpnPo&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

"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