Essays
Through our support of original research on an important and timely set of themes surrounding the interrelationship of media and politics, we hope to generate new research questions and collaborations. These essays are designed as ‘think pieces’ to spur further discussion.
Infrastructures of Empire: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Media and Information Studies
by Miriyam Aouragh and Paula Chakravartty
From Pamphlets to Facebook: Collective Memory, Media Strategies and the Moroccan Left
by Jamal Bahmad
Our cousin from the jungles: Assam and the Assamese in the Indian imaginary
Dislocation and Wild Imaginings: Revolutionary Culture from Syria to Turkey
Online Political Satire in China as Symbolic Protest
by Min Jiang and Guobin Yang
A Soundbyte of Rage: Popular Culture and the Political in a Networked Age
The Birth of a Meme: "I Want True Universal Suffrage" in Hong Kong
Mao vs. Jasmine: Transnational Orbits of Revolutionary Symbols in the Cold War and 2011
by Guobin Yang and Min Jiang
Mediated Events as Nodes of Articulation: The case of the Diaoyu Islands Dispute in Sina Weibo
by Elaine Yuan