Me: Okay, so we learn from anthropologists like Appadurai, and others, that critically speaking, globalisation isn’t a one-way street. On the other hand, people often are acutely aware that cultural imperialism is still a reality, right? What about Facebook, Twitter and Co? Aren’t the social media also a …
Burkina Faso is a fascinating example of how a long history of socio-political mobilization, the resurgence of interest in a murdered former revolutionary leader, and the digital connections of the social media age have recently coalesced in a successful revolution.
Long-time strongman Blaise …
I have recently been reading with great interest Daniel Miller’s Tales from Facebook. Two-thirds of the book recounts portraits of twelve Trinidadians and how their lives have been changed by the experience of using Facebook. Why, Miller asks, are people in Trinidad, where Facebook had already taken off in …