Professor Pohl, it seems that the media reporting on the Hong Kong protests is terribly biased. On the one hand are ‘Western’ media organizations that emphasize the topic of freedom, on the other hand are the official Chinese media that talk about chaos, disorder and
Today, the radical difference between the past and the future has become more pronounced than ever before. Since many structures have changed in relatively short time intervals and still continue to change, it has become quite obvious that whatever it is that awaits us tomorrow,
Julia, first of all congratulations to an amazing exhibition. When did you first come across this phenomenon of POW camps for ‘colonial soldiers’? It is obviously not a very well-known part of German history. I came across it roughly two years ago when I read
Growth and function
If we had to choose one event in recent history able to illustrate the power of the mass media, it might well be the first lunar landing. This TV broadcast won the so-called Cold War for the USA. Arguments were unnecessary—victory and defeat were decided
This video interview with Stanford’s Thomas Blom Hansen, Danish anthropologist and one of the leading commentators on religious and political violence in India, was produced by Habib University’s media club, Purple Lion Productions. It was meant as the first episode of a series called ‘Statementors’