Global Culture

In a series of emails with Kamla, a blogger from India, I provided the following example of how to participate in this project:

how do you get a taxi in your country? how are they recognized from other vehicles? While this may be a very simple task, there are so many variations to [...]

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Erick Schonfeld writes in B2Day about a new tool that will leverage the culture of participation to showcase the best of each neighborhood around the world by paying freelance filmmakers to upload short videos.
TurnHere is truly a remarkable initiative in that it is not only set to become a popular destination on the web by [...]

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As part of my research for this project I came across Global Voices, a project sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.

Their primary goals are to showcase the most interesting conversations taking place in the blogosphere across the globe, by indexing, aggregating and summarizing posts from notorious bloggers [...]

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At the recent O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, PhD candidate Danah Boyd gave a lecture entitled “G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide”. Since I’m an avid reader of her blog, the fact that her position was so relevant to this blog made it truly energizing.
As the ultimate objective of this project is to [...]

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In a series of posts, Chris presents a well formulated summary of the various thesis accepted by academics when studying culture and its relationship with globalization:

Culture and Commodity: Globalization and the Culture Industry is an introduction to the paper
Culture and Globalization: Polarization, Homogenization, Hybridization explains in simple terms the 3 most accepted thesis.

Polarization or the [...]

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In what contains both a brilliant exposition of the recent history (last 100 years) of cultural influence across continents and a terrible use of such history to defend large global corporations, the article “American Culture Goes Global, or Does It?” (2002) written by Professor Richard Pells for The Chronicle of Higher Education states its fundamental [...]

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Perhaps one of my earliest attempts to rationalize the anxiety in regards to the issue of global culture was a series of posts that resulted from a trip to Amsterdam. I had the opportunity to visit the World Press Photo exhibition. At the time (2004) there were mainly two sets being displayed: [...]

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