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Who's at 'Jihad'? : 'Love Jihad' and the Judge in Kerala2 comments

jdevika wrote 2 hours ago: It looked as if the controversy over ‘Love Jihad’ ( ‘jihad defined as ‘war b … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Culture, Debates, everyday life, Identities, Images, Law, Politics, Right watch

The hype, confirmed.2 comments

lindyborer wrote 1 day ago: Study: At Its Worst, H1N1 Only Slightly More Serious Than Seasonal Flu At the risk of sounding terri … more →

Tags: health, h1n1, Media Hype, Pregnancy, seasonal flu

Krauthammer nails it

lindyborer wrote 1 month ago: Again. Fox Wars … more →

Tags: Politics, Charles Krauthammer, czars, Fox News, media, obama

Californian kids escape gaming restrictions

lauracrawford wrote 1 month ago: The US Supreme Court has effectively ended a push by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger  to ban violent … more →

Tags: violent media, media violence, Moral panic, Games, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California

A Face Towel in Allahabad, 19842 comments

Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote 1 month ago: (Published with the title, The Actor’s Studio, in Outlook, Volume XLIX, No. 41, October 19, 20 … more →

Tags: Culture, Identities, Images, Politics, 1984, Allahabad, Amitabh Bachchan, masks

Violence in Consumerism's Own Country14 comments

jdevika wrote 2 months ago: As the stories of the DHRM and those of the successful negotiations with which the Chengara land str … more →

Tags: bad ideas, capitalism, Identities, Politics, Dalit Human Rights Movement

Somebody's thinking of the children

lauracrawford wrote 2 months ago: Though so far this blog has been an exercise in cynicism regarding all things policy related, today … more →

Tags: media violence, Moral panic, Media and Minors, Children & Media, Center on Media and Child Health

More on Murder from Kerala8 comments

jdevika wrote 2 months ago: These are happy days in which everyone in Kerala wants too settle the land dispute at Chengara. A ha … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Identities, Law, Violence & Conflict, Politics, Culture, Movements

A lesson on political equivocation from Thomas Friedman3 comments

Jason Mittell wrote 2 months ago: Tonight in my Television & American Culture course, I screened Buying the War, an excellent Bill … more →

Tags: Not Quite TV

Left 4 Dead (again)1 comment

lauracrawford wrote 2 months ago: Once again Australian authorities are at loggerheads regarding classification of a new video game. P … more →

Tags: violent media, media violence, Moral panic, Games, Left 4 Dead 2, Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification

Ab aap police station se samachar suniye43 comments

Nivedita Menon wrote 2 months ago: (And now, the news read from the police station) I am absolutely appalled by the new levels of uneth … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Dalit Human Rights Movement, Kerala Police, shaju philip

Everything that's fit to print...2 comments

lindyborer wrote 2 months ago: …but isn’t by the soon-to-be obsolete mainstream media.  (NBC, ABC, MSNBC, The Washingto … more →

Tags: Politics, Abortion, ACORN, corruption, glenn beck, James O\'Keefe, Jim Pouillion, Mainstream media, tea parties

Beaten, tortured, forced to do drugs, wrists slashed with razors1 comment

Shivam Vij wrote 2 months ago: There have been so many ragging incidents coming out in the news, but the media is done with ragging … more →

Tags: Violence & Conflict, Ragging, Nayan Adak

Watching Films Blindfolded2 comments

Lawrence Liang wrote 3 months ago: (Published in Himal, September 2009) Sometime in 1996, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh received an … more →

Tags: Law

Search No More2 comments

Lawrence Liang wrote 3 months ago: A new search engine ImHalal.com promises a more spiritually cleansed experience of the internet ( … more →

Tags: bad ideas

Jailing Journalists: Pradeep Jeganathan

Nivedita Menon wrote 3 months ago: This is a guest post by PRADEEP JEGANATHAN from Colombo. The sentencing of J.S. Tissainayagam is dee … more →

Tags: Debates, Government, Politics, bilal hussein, Ibrahim Jassam, JS Tissainayagam, pradeep jeganathan, Sami-Al-Haj, War-on-terror

Panic and politics1 comment

lauracrawford wrote 3 months ago: When appointed to office in March 2009, Victoria’s new Chief Commissioner of Police revealed immedia … more →

Tags: violent media, media violence, Moral panic

The ('Quotation') Gangs of Kerala3 comments

jdevika wrote 3 months ago: The media in Kerala is in a tizzy  these days over ‘quotation’ gangs and their influence … more →

Tags: bad ideas, capitalism, Culture, everyday life, Frontiers, Government, Left watch

The 'Why' of media violence...

lauracrawford wrote 3 months ago: Since Aristotle first coined the theory of Katharsis (c.335 BC), in which he claimed that viewing a … more →

Tags: media violence, Moral panic, violent media


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