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A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities—including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment. Marwick shows that few resources or regulations for preventing personal information from spreading on the internet. Through a new theory of "networked privacy," she reveals how current legal and technological frameworks are woefully inadequate in addressing issues of privacy—often by design. Drawing from interviews and focus groups encompassing a diverse group of Americans, Marwick shows that even heavy social media users care deeply about privacy and engage in extensive "privacy work" to protect it. But people are up against the violation machine of the modern internet. Safeguarding privacy must happen at the collective level

Globalization and the media: Globalization and the UPS strike -- Understanding the corporate media: the dominance/resistance model -- Media coverage of the UPS strike -- "Us" and "them": the nationalist narrative in network television news -- Breaking through: newspaper coverage of the UPS strike -- The battle for hegemony: how did the Teamsters win? -- Theory and lessons -- Retheorizing resistance in communication and media studies -- Conclusion: lessons of the UPS strike -- Appendix: an interview with Ron Carey: the story of a militant union leader

This article explores the metaphor of the novel as the actual "space" for creative expression to take place. It is "space" affected by social and technological developments, employed to "house" global concerns and perspectives. In this article, I intend to investigate the ways in which Teju Cole, an American writer of Nigerian descent, communicates his concerns to his audience and explores questions about crises and debates, responding to social, cultural, and technological challenges of the twenty-first century both in print and electronic spaces. In particular, I investigate the ways in which Cole employs both narrative fiction and Social Media as political space in order to comment on twenty-first century events like 9/11, global terrorism, and a renewed wave of racism. Key-words: narrative, social media, political, activist, 9/11

This article analyses the Chilean independent and not-for profit station Radio Tierra In the general context of the work of two key Chilean sociologists, José Joaquín Brunner and Manuel Antonio Garretón, in particular the latter's theory of an epochal transformation in the relationship between culture and neo-liberalism in Chile over the preceding 30 years. More specifically, it suggests that Radio Tierra makes evident the emergence of a new form of social communication which, in contrast to the traditional liberal model of communication of, and for, information, is more attuned to the new functions of culture in the expansion and implementation of citizenship under conditions of (neo-liberal) globalization. After a discussion of the contemporary media scene and the role of public journalism and alternative communication in Latin America, the article then focuses on the communicational, political and cultural work of Radio Tierra. In 1990, along with the transition to democracy, Radio Tierra (RT) was born in Santiago as an independent station. Using its trajectory, I will try to concretely show some important connections between globalization, neo-liberalism and culture in contemporary Chile.