This paper is taken from Chapter One of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy (2006)...It argues that there exists a 'genealogy' of ideas that amount to a tradition of radical media thought. And so on.
In the late 1940s & early 1950s, economic historian Harold Innis (1894-1952), Canada's preeminent scholar of the 20th century, helped inaugurate media studies (a field now under media imperialism), yet his work remains obscure...
Wikipedia-Statistiker Erik Zachte hat für die neue Übersicht die Logfiles der Proxy-Server der Wikimedia-Foundation ausgewertet. Demnach haben Wikipedia-Leser alleine im September 10,175 Milliarden Seiten abgerufen. Die Schwersterprojekte kamen im selben Monat immerhin auf 456 Millionen Abrufe.
Anyone following protest movements in the last few years has witnessed how mobile phones have become an integral part of the mass organizing of protests and demonstration. In the Philippines, South Korea, Nepal, Bolivia, China, the Ukraine, the United States, and most recently Burma and Pakistan, cell phone have connected activists and ordinary people, giving civic voice to individuals and creating communication channels for organizing, mobilizing, and reporting.