research portfolio

Vargas, Jose A. "'Ron Paul, who?' no longer applies." Washington Post. 17 June 2007. 12 Dec. 2008 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/17/mngd0qgtld1.dtl.

Rep. Ron Paul is more popular on Facebook and youtube.

Wagner, Timothy J. "YouTube as a tool for meteorological education." 17th Symposium on Education (2008).

academic journal on medical students using youtube for educational reasons.

Budoff, Carrie. "Senators Fear Having A "Macaca" Moment." CBS 2 Feb. 2007.

Former Sen. George Allen, R-Va., was expected to win re-election easily in 2006 until a clip of him ridiculing his opponent's staff member circulated online. other fearing the same thing.

Sullivan, Andrew. "Video power: the potent new political force." The Sunday Times 4 Feb. 2007

John McCain dozing through President Bush’s state of the union address. Mitt Romney, contrasting his pro-choice statements in a 1994.

O'Brien, Luke. "YouTube and CNN Discuss "Most Democratic" Presidential Debate Ever." Weblog post. Wired blog network. 14 June 2007. 12 Dec. 2008 http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/youtube_and_cnn.html.

YouTube and CNN have created a new debate format in which voters will send in video questions for the would-be-commanders-in-chief to answer in televised forums.

Jones, Beth. "Queen Rania takes on stereotypes." BBC news. 25 July 2008. 12 Dec. 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7524933.stm.

queen rania of jordan tires to educate the world about islam and arabs.

Kirkup, James, and Nicole Martin. "YouTube attacked by MPs over sex and violence footage." The daily telegraph. 31 July 2008.12 Dec. 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3358061/youtube-attacked-by-mps-over-sex-and-violence-footage.html.

YouTube under sued by MPs for failing to prevent images of sex and violence being posted freely on youtube by terrosist groups and users.

Reuters. "YouTube criticized in Germany over anti-Semitic Nazi videos." Haaretz. 27 Aug. 2008. 12 Dec. 2008 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/898004.html.

nazi videos to recruit people into neo-nazi hood. google germany in trouble.

Liao, Michael, and Randall Young. "YouTube for Ultrasound Education." Academic Emergency Medicine. Vol. 15. Ser. 1. Washington: Blackwell, Inc, 2008. S226-226.

some doctore uses YouTube to share interesting and important video clips of emergency ultrasound cases,which reached a broader audience of medical ppl.

Outline of research project

I/How does youtube spread out ideas around the world?(ideas)

-What is the connection between youtube and violence?
-How can youtube let people talk about politics ?
-What is the connection between youtube and world education?

II/How does youtube unit people in the world?(people)
-How is it used in diaspora communities?
-How social media like youtube has become an influence on destination selection

III/How does Youtube affect international trade?(goods)
-How does youtube advertisement affect the global trade?
-Is the copyright problem a threat to youtube?
-How does youtube affect global finance?

Nineteenth Century Globalization Project

Mamadou Diouf talks in his article about french colonial policy and how senegal raises in this era. Senegal, one of former french colonies, received like others, a process of modification untill its alienation. To start, French colonial policy of assimilation affected essentially four cities or community. In fact, those cities were associated because of their economic dependence and importance. French administration placed in those communes represents the head and the power of their systems. The two revealed religions which is the Islam and Christianism help also the integration of some citizen on those communes. In reality, french assimilation permit the loss of africans historical initiative and of their cultural creativity. Anyway, French processes of assimilation was of three matters: The urbanisation of cities by development of economy society and politic; The religion in his mission of convertion and the integration in french citizenship. The religion had an important role during the colonisation because it changes people mind by erase local law and social structure. The colony forge, in fact is religion by copying foreign matters; religious monuments today show it (churches and mosques ).But also, to arrive to assimillate people the church has made many modification like the translation in local language to permit everybody to be concerned. Finally, all those initiatives helped in the formation and globalization of senegalese new culture.

Globalisation And Education

The article describes academic freedom of the world education or its globalization. For Abdulwahed, the academic freedom ,which is a total freedom of Knowledge providers like universities in their task to develop knowledge transmission through research and study,represents a serious business in terms of globalization. Thats means that the academic freedom isn't, not only, so globalized as it appears ,because education changes everydays under pressure of the globalisation of some sector like the technology. In fact education has to be build by following the evolution of ideas and people around the world.Furthermore the neo-liberalism of globalisation represents a real challenge to Academic Freedom.

Globalisation and Academic Freedom

This reading is explaining to us the impact of globalisation on higher education and academic freedom. there are three different submissions explained. The first one tells us that academic freedom is a global problem because, according to the paper, violators of academic freedom are not not the governments but also the people do, the scholars, the colleagues of other gender, or of other tribe or other religion or other party. The author suggests that we need to make the traditions of academic freedom as universal as possible.
The second submission discuss about how globalisation is changing the academy and academic practices within which academic pursuits are carried out, which means that globalisation has changed, the conditions of teaching,research and dissemination of knowledge.
The third submission tells us that Neo-liberal globalisation poses challenges to academic freedom. the Nea-liberal globalisation has increased possibilities of academic freedom but impose challenges to the concept of institutional autonomy.

academic freedom

the article by Abdulwahed on academic freedom describes the threat of academic freedom as the world further globalizes. the author not only stretches that some of those academic freedom violations may not be on purpose it still remains a problem that should be solved. Abdulwahed states's the Dar es Salaam's definition of academic freedom as the freedom of members do do and write whatever they want intellectually without limits (81). he also states that academic freedom is always changing and goes further to state it as a " a global problem" (82). it is also easy to see that Abdulwahed is a democrate becsue he refers to academic freedom as the same as democracy. he says it is a given, but not forever because it changes as people move and ideas and goods move as well (82). he also blames the market saying that "market forces ...tries to impose restrictions on what to teach,study,research, publish upon ect."(82). he also goes on to acknowledge forces that try to help academic freedom like cell phones, some human rights organization and democracy.

The imperialism of free trade: British

Imperialism of free trade was a term created by J. Gallagher and R. Robinson. This interpretation has remained unchallenged. They concentrated on the mid-victorian and that the British showed themselves willing to apply it. British governments were ready to establish and keep British paramountcy by whatever means suited the circumstances. The only thing that they didn't want was to enter political conflicts. For example, British was much interested in south america or in Mexico but it could not afford to trade with them because it knew that it would have felt obliged to intervene and restore order in order to create a stable government. British protected its interest very much. in order to trade, it will make contracts with the country it was interested in and guarranty them weapons or provide them with assistance for the rebellious colonies but sometimes their offers were refused, that it is what happened with Castlereagh who was the king of latin America in the 1800's.