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Video Links

• Video 1: “Is The Internet a Luxury or a Right?” by AJ+: Ten percent of people in the United States don’t have broadband Internet, and the number is much higher among rural communities and the urban poor.

• Video 2: “The Beat That Changed Pop Music” by AJ+: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty, and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We go to New York, one of the homes of reggaeton’s evolution, to explore the music’s history and talk to those who’ve helped pioneer the sound and those who are changing its image

• Video 3: “How China Is Changing Hollywood” by Vox: From Transformers to The Martian, Hollywood films are looking to China’s massive audiences.

Web Resources

• Web 1: Columbia Journalism Review: Resources and Study Guides for Media Research.

• Web 2: Committee to Protect Journalists: Monitors restrictions on press freedom worldwide.

• Web 3: Index on Censorship: A British organization promoting freedom of expression.

• Web 4: Indymedia: A network of collectively run media outlets.

• Web 5: MediaCommons: A community network for scholars, students, and practitioners in media studies.

Audio Links

• Audio 1: Radiolab, Translation: How the right words can have the wrong meanings, and the best translations lead us to an understanding that’s way deeper than language.

• Audio 2: Radiolab, 9-Volt Nirvana: Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe.