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Author Archives: zezinez
Body Image: Minority women in the media
Originally written for and published on Disruptive Women in Health Care When media speculated about her “puffy” face, Ashley Judd wrote a piece on media misogyny for the Daily Beast. It turns out that Judd was on steroids to combat … Continue reading
A Rich History of Ethnic Media: A Review of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
White-owned media has disparaged, dehumanized, and defamed people of color for thousands of years. That is the premise of the recently released News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by journalists and activists … Continue reading
The Power of the Media in Fostering Hate
In the early 1990s, local media played a central role in the Rwanda genocide that aimed to get rid of the Tutsi, a minority ethnic group in the country. Between 500,000 to a million people were killed in Rwanda – … Continue reading
Tracking Hate Crimes Against Latinos
On July 5, 2011, Gary Thomas Kelley was sentenced to 27.5 years in prison for killing his long-time neighbor Juan Varela. On May 6, 2010, while Varela was watering his lawn, Kelley walked over to Varela called him a “wetback,” … Continue reading
Online Privacy Practices, Issues, and Concerns
Executive Summary Internet users are increasingly and unknowingly giving up their rights to their private information as they increase their online activities. As other countries have developed more stringent rules on privacy, the U.S. government has taken a wait-and-see approach … Continue reading
My last post — for this class
I came all the way to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to learn how to start a blog and maintain it. Not quite, but that’s what it took for me to get up to speed on this endeavor. Professor … Continue reading
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Alec Ross, the State Department and the impact of new media on the world
One of the benefits of having Nicco Mele as my professor for the Media, Power, Politics in the Digital Age class is that he invites all his cool and well-connected friends to speak in our class. His guests so far … Continue reading
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The filter bubble and other learnings
The Internet is a fairly new means of information AND communication – no matter the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brand X. For some years now, we have been enjoying the benefits of the new digital age: a colossal amount of information at … Continue reading
The power of crowdsourcing
I must admit that I’m glad my professor for Media, Politics and Power in the Digital Age, Nicco Mele, assigned us to write a blog on two readings that I had only skimmed through the first time around. The Cathedral … Continue reading
“Don’t be Evil” means respecting privacy
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta is intriguing, riveting and more then just a story about Google but also a brief history of the Internet. Auletta reminds us of how initially the power … Continue reading
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