Category Archives: Memoirs from Chicagoland

Do event outcomes affect how we rate their coverage? CNN IBN and US Elections 2012

Media feeds on elections. Counting and results declaration is when news becomes a “mass audience” genre, and the US Election results night more globally so is such a mass audience event. As I write, Obama has just been declared victorious. Apart … Continue reading

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Why people get thrown out of restaurants? A highly ‘tellable’ somewhat embarrasing tale.

A friend recently remarked that this blog had been missing its usual gossipy feel for some time. Well, I perhaps have one of the more bizarre incidents I can recall in recent times. And yes a first person account! I … Continue reading

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Hail the web and the blogosphere: Finally my blog has had ‘real impact’

I have been updating this blog somewhat regularly now. I have often wondered whether I write this weblog for a particular audience . Perhaps the diverse nature of posts (yes I go all over) suggests that I don’t. So why … Continue reading

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Has user generated content killed old ‘media logic’ ?

Recently, at a graduate students’ party somewhere in Midwestern United States, two short and sweet videos got very spontaneously produced. What intrigues me is that all it took was a gathering of a cross cultural group, some high “spirits” and … Continue reading

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I am ‘Harsh; Just Harsh’: A Russian Economist

A tale of one my most interesting cohabiting experiences ever. A beautiful insight into the world around me through someone brought up in another world. Continue reading

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