Author Archives: Elias Haddad

This live tracking clearly shows how my personal data is being tracked and my digital footprint is being saved. Such information can be used to tell that I like the countryside (Bsharri) or that I live in the city since most of my time is in Beirut etc. Thus, our information is made public toContinue reading “Surveillance”

Militainment From destructive world wars, to brutal wars on terror, the US will defend its actions with every tool available (Anderson & Mirrlees, 2014). This is exactly what militainment means; it is the usage of various tools, such as tv shows, movies, video games, newspapers, digital media, etc. to defend and even promote its militaryContinue reading “Militainment”

Surveillance has been a powerful tool since the end of the 19th century and it was especially prominent in the 20th century onward (Ball & Snider, 2013). Military forces have been prominent users of such technology, especially during world war II and cracking the Enigma code (Ball & Snider, 2013). Another fan of surveillance isContinue reading “What is the surveillance-industrial complex?”

Throughout Lebanon’s history, media has played an important role in shaping people’s beliefs mostly regarding the different political aspects on an internal level and an external one. This progression of media is clearly portrayed in a film explaining how and why certain changes occurred to media along with their implications on the Lebanese people andContinue reading “How are ownership, politics, and television media in Lebanon related?”

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Contrary to popular belief, Marx did not specifically think capitalism was bad. Though he did admit it to cause pain and grief and suffering, he still admired what it succeeded to accomplish after the abolition of the feudalist system (Marx, 1867). However, Marx did believe capitalism to be a steppingstone to a final system thatContinue reading “What is Capitalism?”

Recently and for a relatively long time, racism has been quite the topic to debate in all its forms and different applications. Firstly, to define racism and its effects, it must be understood that there must exist an institutionalized oppression and discrimination of a specific race for it to be considered racism. Thus, if IContinue reading “How can media be oppressive when it comes to race?”

The article is called “Israel strikes Gaza after Palestinian militants unleash a barrage of rockets” (Tarnopolsky & Abu Alouf, 2019). Bias by headline: It clearly portrays Palestinians as terrorists by using words like “militants”  along with painting the Israeli  strikes as retaliation to Palestinian rocket strikes. This can also be treated as a bias throughContinue reading “Bias in media”

As of today, we all know that foul play is deeply rooted into all forms of media. Of course, such agendas are obscure, and their origin is point of debate. Thus, we identify a model of propaganda made up of five different filters (Herman & Chomsky, 1998).  Profit-ownership means that powerful figures, mostly politicians, areContinue reading “The Model of Propaganda”