Earlier this year, The Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik died while covering the conflict in Syria. The Colvin and Ochlik case is not an isolated event. […]
The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof wrote in his blog, “Microcredit is undoubtedly the most visible innovation in anti-poverty policy in the last half century.” According to the World Bank, […]
Social activism is becoming an increasingly large part of modern culture. A variety of development efforts have sprung up in response, ranging from child-sposorship to livestock donation to building wells […]
The Social Justice Committee (SJC) is a Montreal-based non-governmental organization that was founded in a church basement in 1975. It has since evolved into a secular organization, with its headquarters […]
This timeline shows the history of the Internet in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and various acts of censorship imposed on it by the PRC government. Censorship has limited […]
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto […]
After massive online lobbying on various Internet platforms, the controversial American bill, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), was quickly reneged, attesting to the democratic power of social media. A similar […]
At the beginning of the semester it seemed like almost everyone on Facebook was up in arms over SOPA and PIPA. Statuses, photos and links referred to the limitations of […]
Since its launch eight years ago, Facebook has navigated an uneasy tension between profitability and privacy. This fun and free service has somehow compelled users to willingly reveal the most […]
