Whether you're interested in working in the media, or are keen to get involved in debates about technology, or media ownership, or issues of privacy, or the aesthetics of film and television, media studies explores the roles all forms of media play in society, with an eye on issues of globalisation, history, representation, and social power.
ECONOMIST Dani Rodrik has become a bit of a bomb-thrower on issues of globalisation, but I think he makes a point in this column that is worth heeding:[W]hen we expect redistributive effects to even out in the long run, so that everyone eventually comes out ahead, we are more likely to overlook reshufflings of income.
A discussion of the growing links between the issues of globalisation, health and foreign policy.
This is an obvious result of globalisation.
Part-thriller, part-multicultural Aga saga, the book enmeshes its characters in the issues of immigration, globalisation, political violence and personal accountability.
Raelians deride the current state-system as inadequate for dealing with contemporary global issues that are typical of Globalisation, such as Environmentalism, Social Justice, Human Rights, and the current economic system.
But in following the individual stories of migrants it addresses the most pressing issue of our times, the globalisation of desperation and poverty: life in the black economy of Sheffield, its insecurity, exploitation and hierarchies, isn't so different from that in India.
But if the issue of how to shape globalisation is key for the EU, it will be no less important for the UK after Brexit.
It would take a depression, fascism, and a second world war to resolve these issues and a new round of globalisation did not ramp up again until the mid-1960s.
It is the irreversible process of globalisation that makes these issues transnational, and regional cooperation is the most effective way of tackling them.
