The Revolution is Female: How Luiza Trajano Has Been Transforming the World with Disruptive Technology, Civic Engagement and Community Logic — An Interview with Renata Frade

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The Revolution is Female: How Luiza Trajano Has Been Transforming the World with Disruptive Technology, Civic Engagement and Community Logic — An Interview with Renata Frade

Renata Frade interviews entrepreneur and activist Luiza Trajano about her many projects with Magazine Luiza and Mulheres do Brasil and what inspires her work. As Luiza Trajano points out, "The digital is a culture. It is not software or an application; it is a way of life."

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The Sound of Protest: Bollywood’s Jimmy Jimmy and COVID unrest in China

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The Sound of Protest: Bollywood’s Jimmy Jimmy and COVID unrest in China

While factory workers in China voiced their protest of Covid 19 lockdowns on the street and online, another subtler wave of online protest emerged as humor through the sound of Bollywood. The Chinese Tik Tok Duoyin abounded with videos of Chinese netizens (Internet citizens)  singing Jimmy, Jimmy a popular Bollywood song from the 1980s. Jimmy Jimmy, however, is not just any Bollywood song; it was the youth anthem for many soviets and east Europeans in the eighties. This post focuses on three aspects of this event. First, what qualities make a song a protest song? Second, how do we account for the transcultural, trans-linguistic flow of the song, and what does this exchange reveal about the cultural dissemination and absorption of Bollywood in China?

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A Glimpse into the Brain-Bending Way We Appraise Health Information

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A Glimpse into the Brain-Bending Way We Appraise Health Information

While the problem of mis/disinformation is not new, the advent of social media has magnified the reach and impact of unverified and harmful health information. What underlying skills, competencies and biases allow some people to sail past junk science and others to capsize? There is a relationship between the intersection of media and health literacies – referred to here as Media Health Literacy – and health beliefs/outcomes. But an individual’s appraisal of health information appears to be more susceptible to confirmation bias - only trusting information that confirms pre-existing beliefs - than more disembodied behavioral decision-making processes.

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