Global Media Diversity: Where Do We See It? by Yasmine Abdi. Global media have created the opportunity for more diverse opinion abroad, but in the United States opinions are dramatically biased towards domestic news like CNN and FOX News. Through propaganda, these media sources have created a way of thinking that prevents a nation from "thinking outside the box."
The State Controlled Monopoly of Televised Mass Media in the Republic of Croatia by Adam Bajan. Croatians are waiting for more media diversity as they anticipate participation in the European Union.
Carlos Slim Helú: Building a Media Monopoly in Mexico by Chris Beese. All you have to do is follow Carlos Slim's 6 easy steps to success.
Nowhere To Go: The Palestinian Refugee Problem by Stu Burke. While the Western media focuses on the technicalities of the peace process, millions of Palestinians remain refugees without a homeland.
Poppy for Medicine: Can Afghanistan Change its Illegal Drug Economy to a Legal One? by Christie Campbell. The Senlis Council proposes a viable alternative which, along with a comprehensive overhaul of infrastructures
and economic incentives, will allow Afghanistan to regulate and control its own opium crops.
The Digital Divide: Will Solving the Problem Lead to Poverty Reduction or is this an Institutional Exaggeration? by Colleen Campbell. Will improved access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) necessarily result in poverty reduction as claimed by the World Bank and International Telecommunications Union? What are the motivations of such institutions in their promotion of the idea of a digital divide?
Representations of Muslim Women and Men in the Media
by Crystal Coulombe. Every time an incident of terrorism occurs anywhere in the world, Muslims living in the Western World, especially in North America, are terrorized by the horrors of the news media.
To Conceive or Not to Conceive: The Influence of Mass Media on Family Planning in Nigeria by Janet Crawford. Family planning messages in the Nigerian media seem to making an impact on the birth rate.
Internet Causing China's Media Strangle Hold To Lose Grip by Nick Doering. The emergence of the World Wide Web has caused havoc for China's political censors. The progressive thinking among young Chinese minds is penetrating the forces of censorship that are challenging the way of the future in the People's Republic.
India's Deadly Film Fans by Suzie Dunn. Hollywood prides itself on the celebrity obsession that infects the average North American moviegoer, but it comes in at a quiet second when compared to the Indian film industry, especially Bollywood.
Breaking Apathy, by Zack Friend. The biggest hurdle facing North Americans in regard to changing their media is not a lack of interest, but a lack of seriousness.
Oppressed Media in Singapore
By Sara Hiramoto. Ranked as the #1 globalized country, Singapore ranks 161st on the Press Freedom Index. Can Singapore turn itself into a "global media city"?
Communicating Climate Change by Jodi Le Masurier. People in Bangladesh, Tuvalu, and Mozambique are communicating about climate change through whatever forms of media they have available. Are they are the most important voices in the fight to stop global warming?
The Oil Curse in Nigeria
by Kelsey Rush. To Buy Nigeria's oil under the conditions that prevail is to buy oil in exchange for blood.
Duopolio: Who's Running Mexico? by Renee Sanh. Mexico is starving for alternate media sources, and is thirsting for objectivity. The two competing media giants--Televisa and TV Azteca--are both presenting the public with the same views, convenient for their duopoly but unfair to an entire nation.
Macedonian Media Fighting for its Freedom by Bethany Scott. Whenever any hindrance, whatever its name, is placed in the way of this information, a democracy is weakened and its future endangered. This is the meaning of freedom of the press.
Security and Prosperity Partnership by Hannah Watler. There are still many questions left unanswered following the secretive SPP deliberations in Montebello, but one thing remains certain: if Canada is praised as a democracy, we should be setting an example for the rest of the world.
Hear Us Coming Through the Radio, by Jessica Wolford. Is it only a matter of time until big box organizations get the big idea to push forward their space-biased empires into Africa?.