A few days ago I got the green light from my advisor: having read the latest version of my proposal, she finally said the magic words, that it was close to being circulated to the committee members, that it was almost ready for defense!Â
It has been quite a struggle and probably the hardest thing so far in my life to write (I guess that means my life hasn’t had much hard writing so far?)Â
Anyway, I will be defending at the end of this month, September 25th. To commemorate this great moment, I changed the title of this blog, which previously was unimaginatively and narcisticly titled after my own name, but which now carries the name “Global Voices, One World”. It’s a play on an influential 1980s UNESCO report that was called “Many Voices, One World” that looked at the structures of global communication back then, strongly condemning the dominance of the industrialized nation-states in the global production and distribution of media content, but also pissing off the United States and the United Kingdom in the process who ended up withdrawing from UNESCO for decades and who did not rejoin UNESCO until recently. And Global Voices is, of course, the name of the organization I am researching for my dissertation.
