几十年前，消息灵通人士依赖上门投递的一两份报纸来获取新闻。随着计算机时代的来临，年轻人在互联网上漫游，经常寻找加强他们世界观的那些新闻网站。社会媒体面世后，人们采集新闻的方式正经历着另一个阶段的变革。新闻学教授苏珊•莫勒(Susan Moeller)形容说, 通过电子邮件、推特（Twitter）、脸谱（Facebook）和其他账户，年轻人“就好像稳坐网中央的蜘蛛一般，满足于捕捉飞过眼前的信息”。在马里兰大学媒介与公共事务国际研究中心（the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda at the University of...
华盛顿：直到不久前，好奇者找新闻的规律仍然成立。但根据近期对全球18至25岁年轻人进行的一项调查显示，如今却是新闻找年轻人。不同于漫游互联网的前2.0网络时代的前辈，如今的学生们呆在脸谱网页、推特账户、聊天平台和电子邮件账户上，从这些地方收集新闻。
当前，脸谱和推特已经被政府与政治家用作公共舆论宣传的媒介，反对派也将其作为组织抗议的公众平台。在这样一个时代里，年轻人就好像稳坐网中央的蜘蛛一般，满足于捕捉飞到眼前的信息。这一事实对社会和政治都产生了重大的后果。
一二十年前，公众刚发现，...
Global leaders have been more adept at resolving economic crises than the climate crisis. Negotiating an economic crisis, whether it’s Brussels imposing euro budget oversight and consequences for excessive debt or the US avoiding a fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes, is forced...
NEW YORK: The annual ritual of climate negotiations has just ended in Doha, following a pattern similar to previous climate conferences. The negotiations continued late into the night. Agreements reached at the last minute will do little to limit...
Arguing against popular belief, Mahmood Mamdani, a prominent Uganda-born political scientist at Columbia University, asserts that terrorism has little to do with Islamic culture; rather, it is an outgrowth of American Cold War strategies. In this article on the New York Times, the author attempts...
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Attendees to the 20th Summit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, held in Phnom Penh, could not miss the warm welcome for another visitor – billboards and flags honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao. The visit was no coincidence, argues journalist Sebastian Strangio, based in Phnom Penh. A...
Balance and power: Chinese President Hu Jintao with host Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (top); construction site of Chinese Stung Tatai Hydropower Dam project
PHNOM PENH: As delegates touched down in Cambodia’s capital for the 20th Summit of the...
An immediate challenge for the international community, one that dominated discussions at the G20 summit in Hamberg, is North Korea. The dogged pursuit of a nuclear weapons by the rogue nation illustrates the repercussions and security dilemma of any nation’s quest for absolute security, heightens...
Securing insecurity: World leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Donald Trump struggle in search for agreement; leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet in Astana
WASHINGTON: The G20 summit in...
Canada, Russia, the US, Norway and Denmark all have some overlapping claims throughout the Arctic, each hoping to secure a big share of the rich oil, gas and mineral reserves believed to rest under the ice. “Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a country can secure rights to...
Countries must end the many contradictions between energy policies and goals to reduce emissions and destruction of the environment and industries that rely on clean water and air. Vikram S. Mehta, chairman of Brookings India, writes specifically about India for the Indian Express, but his...
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The global economy is in a shambles, due to a credit crunch, uncertain values of homes and other assets, and complex loan packages that few people understand. US President George Bush convened a meeting of 20 major economies and acknowledged that emerging economies like China, India and Brazil...
Calls for global negotiations to resolve the growing crisis have been heard for some time. But this time, it is the very real threat of the global economy teetering on the edge that brought about the first meeting of the Group...
