This web-based project is a collaborative effort of students and a
faculty member of New School University. Coming directly out of a course
on "Globalization and Media," it aims to bring these two terms
together in actual practice by a convergence of the critical, the
participatory and the technological: aspects that can, in some
instances, be seen to embody the global. We present snapshots of the
state of media today, viewed in comparative perspective. Using small
samples to test particular hypotheses current in the "media and
globalization" literature, or offering evidence of specific trends in
media and new media development, we have tried to gauge the pulse of
where the nexus of media and globalization may be headed. One scholarly
aim in a class which was introductory and exploratory in nature was to
"concretize" large theoretical models or claims by recognized
scholars. The individual essays are informed by particular frameworks
but they are not theoretical in nature, for the most part. Rather, they
are medium-specific analyses of topics which seem interesting and
relevant to contemporary concerns of a global community of readers and
viewers.

Sumita Chakravarty