Published on January 30th, 2020By Gabriel Pereira¹, Pedro Torres², and Lisa Parks³, with an interview of Paulo Gomes⁴ In Brazil, much of the plastic gets thrown away and picked by “catadores,” people who scavenge trash bins and dumps looking for recyclable material. The “catadores” go on to sell whatever they […]
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Published on January 15th, 2020Written by Zahra Thabet, UROP Student in the GMTaC Lab Last semester I conducted research on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, a federal law enforcement agency that operates under the purview of the Department of Homeland […]
Published on January 15th, 2020Written by Daniel Grinberg Given the egregious human rights abuses of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that have come to light, it is vital for the American public and global publics to be more fully aware of the strategies and scope of the agency’s […]
Published on December 1st, 2019Written by Meng Liang and Han Su Ten years ago, no one could imagine that the word “zhongcao” (Chinese as: 种草), literally meaning planting grass, could link so closely with “online shopping.” Zhongcao more recently became Chinese internet slang, referring to “the effect when someone sees something […]
Published on November 25th, 2019Written by Lisa Parks and Kelly Wagman Contemporary media studies emerged in the mid-20th century as a hybrid field growing out of communication, literary studies, sociology, art, critical theory, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies. Since the late 1980s, the field of media studies has expanded in […]
Published on November 15th, 2019 On October 21st hundreds of “glovers,” workers from Glovo – a Spanish delivery platform – who do deliveries by motorcycles and bikes, protested against the company in what could be considered the biggest organized protest of platform delivery workers in Peru to date. The primary motivation […]
Published on November 11th, 2019Written By Greta Byrum and Ever Bussey Kopper Glo, the coal mining company that has ruled the economy of the Clear Fork Valley of Eastern Tennessee for the last sixty years, claims a legacy of environmental stewardship and community involvement. Yet its stock in trade is […]
Published on November 6th, 2019Written by Fabian Prieto-Ñañez. Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. On March 28, 2019, the community television station CABLECIMA TV1 moved from their original site to a new house in the San Luis neighborhood in Bogota, Colombia. Big satellite dishes, […]
Published on October 22nd, 2019Written by Josefina Buschmann, Chilean researcher and filmmaker In October 2017, images of phone antennas, WhatsApp and Telegram text messages, audios of phone conversations, and aerial surveillance videos appeared in a prime time news broadcast in Chile, showing the “inside view” of a police intelligence […]