Privacy, globalization and politics -- From globalization to glocalization -- Globalizing China: cases of transnational music records -- WTO, politics of control and collaborations -- A tale of two localizing global capitals: MTV and Channel V -- Active nation, active audience -- Toward an...

The media report news that in turn influences behaviors. This news is drawn from a set of available information. In this paper, we study how the set of information is "exante" affected by anticipated media coverages. First, we take an exogenous but anticipated shock of media coverage: Olympic...

Due to the contemporary action of a number of variables, large organizations can be hardly considered communities of similar types of media users. Likely, they are populated by different groups, which mix in different ways within and between departments, functions and groups. The identification...

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first objective should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. -...