Since its establishment in 1987, Place M, a photography gallery located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has served as a venue for the experience of photographic expression and experimentation. With the establishment of the film department and the first Place M Film Festival in 2019, the organizers
Professor Moeller, congratulations to your new project, Philosophy in Motion. In a nutshell: What is this YouTube channel all about? Philosophy in Motion brings to life weirdly fascinating stories from the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. These stories are surprisingly relevant today, seductively funny, refreshingly subversive, soothingly therapeutic, and smart
Critical theory is a Western, and distinctly European, intellectual tradition that drew its normative resources from the social and political events that transpired in Europe over the course of the 20th century. It is relevant to ask the question whether, as a critical-practical tradition, critical
The real dilemma at the heart of The Social Dilemma, Netflix’s docudrama about the social and psychological harm caused by the new media, was almost immediately noticed by many. Audience reviews on Google are replete with comments like this one from Janntui Maoa: “Netflix recommended
Hi Subekti, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Hello Khai. Thanks for having me! Congratulations to your new book. Besides the reason of structural similarities, is there any other reason why you chose Indonesia and Germany as your research subjects? Well, we mention this
MH: Professor Brown, thanks a lot for agreeing to this interview. Your time budget must be rather small. May I ask what you are currently working on? Two projects. One is a selection of excerpts from key writers from outside China who have written about
Indonesia, the state with the largest Muslim population in the world, is in a process of continuous societal transformation. From the perspective of Media and Communication Studies, recent political developments towards an increasingly consolidated democratic system are of great interest. The comparison with Germany may
Hi Alka! Hi, Markus. Let me introduce the two others first: This is Saima, our Editor-in-Chief, and this is Yap Khai Qing, a journalism student at Xiamen University Malaysia. Hi Sama, hi Khai, nice to meet you guys. I think Saima wants to go first,
During a class on international communication at Xiamen University Malaysia in this winter semester, three students presented on Emily Erikson’s book “Between Monopoly and Free Trade” – a fresh look at the English East India Company that tries to explain the company’s success. Emily’s thesis: