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Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing meaning about values, attitudes, and experiences? Or will it simply allow capitalism to pursue ever-greater economic efficiencies among the wealthy nations of the world, while ignoring the persistent and growing gap between rich and poor? The contributors to this volume consider these central questions, among others, from a wide variety of...

The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest political films of all time. With an artistic defiance that matched the boldness of the anticolonial struggles of the time, it was embraced across the political spectrum--from leftist groups like the Black Panther Party and the Palestine Liberation Organization to right-wing juntas in the 1970s and later, the Pentagon in 2003. With a philosophical nod to Frantz Fanon, Sohail Daulatzai demonstrates that tracing the film's afterlife...

"Ich denke, Heimat ist auch Ankommen bei den richtigen Leuten."

"Bei der richtigen Person."

Die 19-jährige Arwa ist gerade erst für ihr Studium nach Wien gezogen. Aber statt Freundschaften zu knüpfen, verliert sie sich in ihrer Kunst und meidet den Kontakt zu anderen, wo sie nur kann. Das ändert sich, als sie auf Tariq trifft, der vom ersten Augenblick an nie gekannte Gefühle in ihr weckt. Doch Tariq, dem es zunehmend schwerer fällt, die Traditionen seiner Familie mit dem Wunsch nach Freiheit zu vereinbaren, kämpft gegen seine eigenen Dämonen. Und je näher sich Arwa...

Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing meaning about values, attitudes, and experiences? Or will it simply allow capitalism to pursue ever-greater economic efficiencies among the wealthy nations of the world, while ignoring the persistent and growing gap between rich and poor? The contributors to this volume consider these central questions, among others, from a wide variety of...