Hafez notes that even though technology would allow media to flow across national borders, it still tends to flow within cultural groups. Since music is statistically the thing that crosses cultural borders most frequently, I am going to write about…
Violence in the “Hashtag” Culture
When the word “hashtag” is mentioned, we are quick to associate it with a practice on social networks, rather than its original intention as a symbol in information technology. The practice of hashtagging originated in 2009 on the worldwide social…