Conference on Culture and Imperialism by the author of "Orientalism", Edward Said. The text of the conference can be also found in the additional materials of the course, here on his own voice.

Interview in Spanish with French media theorist Armand Mattelart on media, globalization and power, from UNED TV course.

Entrevista de febrero de 2020 que explica, de forma sencilla, como circula la información en internet a través de los cables transoceánicos. Con Noelia Miranda, emitido por Onda Cero en el programa diario “Julia en la Onda”.

US and West German intelligence agencies spied on governments across  the world for decades using a Swiss encryption firm, a new investigation  has claimed. Hundreds of countries used Crypto AG equipment to  protect their top secrets but a probe has found the firm was covertly  owned by the CIA and German spy agency BND. But,  by rigging the equipment, American and Western German intelligence  agents were able to listen in on their allies and enemies. The  revelation came from a classified...

On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry  Kreisler welcomes social theorist Manuel Castells, Professor of  Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, to  discuss identity and change in the network society. Series:  "Conversations with History" [6/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7234]. Available in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GBB7U5mv0w

I'm going to talk to you about power in this 21st century. And basically, what I'd like to tell you is that power is changing, and there are two types of changes I want to discuss. One is power transition, which is change of power amongst states. And there the simple version of the message is it's moving from West to East. The other is power diffusion, the way power is moving from all states West or East to non-state actors. Those two things are the huge shifts of power in our century. And I...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how a dominant power can exert a  cultural influence on its empire. An empire rests on many things:  powerful armies, good administration and strong leadership, but perhaps  its greatest weapon lies in the domain of culture. Culture governs every  aspect of our lives: our dress sense and manners, our art and  architecture, our education, law and philosophy. To govern culture, it  seems, is to govern the world. But what is cultural imperialism? Can it  be...

John Pilger interviews Irish politician Sean MacBride  (1983) for "The Outsiders" series.  Also in video: http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-outsiders-sean-macbride

Conference at the University of Stockholm in 2011, available online in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lN7yYhoWPs

Interview of the sociologist and social thinker Stuart Hall by Pnina Werbner, in 2006.

From June 26-27, 2017 NDI and Stanford Center on Democracy, Development  and the Rule of Law convened an invitation-only event that includes  thought leaders from tech firms, political institutions, academia,  media, the democracy community and philanthropic organizations for an  off-the-record discussion on how to collectively address the global  challenge of digital disinformation. CDDRL Draper Hills alumna Svitlana  Zalischuk (Ukraine '11) talks about these issues in her country from her...