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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Global Politics and New Media -- 1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden -- 2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media -- 3. The Information Empire -- 4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization -- II. The Culture of the Digital Self -- 5. Identity Theft and Media -- 6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media -- 7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual -- 8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines -- III. Digital Commodities in Everyday Life -- 9. Who Controls Digital Culture? -- 10. Everyday (Virtual) Life -- 11. Consumers, Users, and Digital Commodities -- 12. Future Advertising: Dick's Ubik and the Digital Ad -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Alexander Poster's article, "The Gentle War: Famine Relief, Politics, and Privatization in Ethiopia-1983-1986" examines the Reagan administration's efforts to resolve Cold War disputes through humanitarian assistance. With the Vietnam War fresh in minds of both Congress and the American public, Reagan officials dealt with hesitancy when they pressed for military and developmental grants for foreign nations. M. Peter McPherson, administrator for the Agency for International Development, discovered a solution to the Reagan administration's problem. McPherson noted that Americans still supported humanitarian objectives abroad and sought to incorporate humanitarian relief into President Reagan's foreign policy strategy. The Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s resulted in the largest mobilization of relief resources in U.S. history. The American response was both a humanitarian effort and a targeted attempt to discredit socialist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. American policymakers drew up their policy with the intent to strengthen rebel areas, discourage collectivization of land, and take credit for most of the relief effort. Thus, disaster relief in Ethiopia served a dual purpose: to provide humanitarian aid and to further American security interests. Adapted from the source document.

Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination, Karen Engle (2009) McGill-Queen's University Press, 183 pp., ISBN: 0773535411, Paperback, 16.99, ISBN: 0773535403, Hardback, 64.00

Exhibition: Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 19101950