Oppression is not a point of view
12 October 2015, Mada Masr By Jonathan Guyer “All comics are political,” wrote Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas in their seminal 1994 study Arab Comic Strips. But whether for children or adults, the forms of political expression in comics are never straightforward. Translated editions of Superman project cultural imperialism as well as the human need for heroes and villains. A comic advertising Stella beer
» Read moreThe Department of English Language and Literature at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, is recruiting academic members of staff in the field of Translation in various academic ranks: Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor. Applicants should meet the following conditions: PhD. in Translation or Linguistics An appropriate record of publications Appropriate teaching
» Read moreLinguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics, Language, Literature and Translation Conference Dates: November 3-5, 2016 Conference Location: Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman Call Deadline (Early Decision): 14 February 2016. Decision returned by 29 February Call Deadline (Regular): 11 April 2016. Decision returned by 2 May Meeting Description: Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World 2016 will provide a forum for
» Read moreClosing Date: 20 October 2015 The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies (Chinese-English). The appointee will have the responsibility of undertaking independent teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the Chinese Studies program and also making a lead contribution to the course design, content and delivery of the new
» Read moreSociology Lens Paul Gilbert on September 28, 2015 Doubtless I am not alone among the contributors to Sociology Lens in having been exposed, during my first year as an undergraduate, to an array of foundational thinkers in sociology (and anthropology) who present human history as a movement away from ‘traditional’, ‘face–to–face’ or ‘kinship–based’ societies, towards those in which interaction and identity is less relational, and more individualized.
» Read moreFounded by Todd Wolfson, Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) is based in Philadelphia and is an award winning social justice group that uses media to build the power of working people. MMP exists to build a media, education and organizing infrastructure that will cohere and amplify the growing movement to end poverty. We use media to organize poor and working people to
» Read morePublished on Jun 27, 2015 Rutgers SC&I Social Media & Society Cluster Melding virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left’s cultural logic, Todd Wolfson maps the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and details its operations on the local, national and global level. He looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements
» Read moreOnline organizing and the new era of radical struggle Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Todd Wolfson reveals how aspects of the mid-1990s Zapatistas movement–network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent–became essential parts of Indymedia and other
» Read moreNew Media & Society, Volume 16, Number 3, 2014 Todd Wolfson and Peter N Funke Abstract Understanding class as a process of self-making in relation to a particular, historical form of capitalism, in this article we argue that media and communication (from face-to-face and old mediums such as radio to internet-powered tools) must be conceptualized as an emerging structural dimension for class
» Read moreTriple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique Volume 10, Number 1, 2012 Abstract Due to the increasingly atomized, isolated nature of social life, as well as the apparent splintering of the working class under neoliberal capitalism, media serve a pivotal infrastructural function for generating the necessary commonality between the fractured sectors of the contemporary working class. This article ethnographically and
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