Category: Global Mediascape

• Baudrillard, Media Manipulation, and the Social Media Landscape: Manufacturing Consent in Wartime

  “We are no longer in a logic of the passage of virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.” Baudrillard, J. (1995). The Gulf War did not take place. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Introduction Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a French philosopher and social theorist. He was a prominent figure in the…

  marwaaldabbagh

  November 27, 2023

  Global Mediascape

  Iraq, Simulacra, Social Media

• Legacies and Hidden Struggles of the Oppressed: A Look at Third Cinema 

  

  Years of ongoing oppression, corruption, sectarianism, and extremism in Third-World nations raised the need for its people to be heard, for their struggle to be seen, and for their voices to be amplified, to start a dialogue and question authorities and structures of power. Not to mention the opportunity to challenge concepts of the past,…

  marwaaldabbagh

  November 10, 2023

  Global Mediascape

  Filmmaking, Iraq, Third Cinema

• Film Festivals

  Despite the perception of some that Third Cinema belongs to the past, its legacy lives on in new films being produced by talented directors all over the world. The best way to see these films is at film festivals celebrating films from particular regions, heritages, or forms. Here are some film festivals that showcase films…

  marwaaldabbagh

  November 10, 2023

  Global Mediascape

  Film Festival, Filmmaking

• Althusser’s Theory of ISAs in Action:

  

  How AlHurra and Radio Sawa Acted as Apparatuses of State Ideology in Iraq In early 2002, after 9/11, traumatized America was set on dominating the world using hard power, bombs and military force, and its soft ones, broadcasts, such as Voice of America Arabic.  The Bush administration decided to replace the federally-run Arabic radio and…

  marwaaldabbagh

  October 13, 2023

  Global Mediascape

  Althusser, Mediascape