By admin, 5 months and 29 days ago

Armenia: Children's Day

Unzipped says that International Children's Day, marked worldwide on 1 June, took on a more political tone in Armenia this year with the families of detained opposition activists staging a protest yesterday near the General Prosecutor's Offic [...]

Link: Global Voices Online





Tags: Unzipped, says, that, International, Children's, Day,, marked, worldwide, June,, took, more, political, tone, Armenia, this, year, with, families, detained, opposition, activists, staging, protest, yesterday, near, General, Prosecutor's, Office, United, Nations, building, downtown, Yerevan., blog, calls, Armenian, Government, make, declarations, [...]

By admin, 5 months and 29 days ago

Brazil: First blog falls victim to electoral law

The Rio de Janeiro Electoral Court demanded this week that Brazilian bloggers deleted banners they had published in support of their candidate for the Rio Mayoral 2008 elections - or the candidate would have his candidacy banned. Bloggers reacted str [...]

Link: Global Voices Online

Tags: Janeiro, Electoral, Court, demanded, this, week, that, Brazilian, bloggers, deleted, banners, they, published, support, their, candidate, Mayoral, 2008, elections, candidate, would, have, candidacy, banned., Bloggers, reacted, strongly, that, they, were, victorious, this, battle, against, censorship.

By admin, 5 months and 29 days ago

Korea: Battles between Netizens and Newspapers

It started from complaints and small protests against the US-Korea Beef Trade. Koreans were upset due to the process of the negotiation of the trade between the US and Korea and due to unconditional support from major media for the current government [...]

Link: Global Voices Online

Tags: started, from, complaints, small, protests, against, US-Korea, Beef, Trade., Koreans, were, upset, process, negotiation, trade, between, Korea, unconditional, support, from, major, media, current, government., Candlelight, vigils, were, expected, disappear, after, several, days,, they, have, continued, [...]

By admin, 5 months and 29 days ago

Dream Kitsch -- Folk Art, Indigenous Media and `9/11': The Work of Pat in the Era of Electronic Transmission

This article explores the process of transmission of the image(s) of 9/11 through an ethnographic/art-historical examination of Bengali (Indian) pat (traditional scroll painting) made by a community of rural Indian ar [...]

Link: Journal of Material Culture current issue

Tags: This, article, explores, process, transmission, image(s), 9/11, through, ethnographic/art-historical, examination, Bengali, (Indian), (traditional, scroll, painting), made, community, rural, Indian, artisans, with, little, exposure, mass-media., transpires, that, while, impact, mass-media, —, often, held, responsible, extinction, `authentic', folk, —, been, somewhat, exaggerated,, argument, forward, here, that, putative, anteriority, time, [...]

By admin, 6 months ago

Brazil: PeBodyCount joins Brazilian Disarmament Network

PEBodyCount blog [pt] is now officially a member of the «Brazilian Disarmament Network», which brings together more than 40 entities. «The network will stimulate and strengthen the idea that carrying guns is risky and, hence, handin [...]

Link: Global Voices Online

Tags: PEBodyCount, blog, [pt], officially, member, «Brazilian, Disarmament, Network»,, which, brings, together, more, than, entities., «The, network, will, stimulate, strengthen, idea, that, carrying, guns, risky, and,, hence,, handing, them, over, better, than, registering, them.», Also, check, these, t-shirts,, that, have, been, sale, help, [...]

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