Theory, Media, and Democracy for Realists

Democracy, Political Perceptions, and New Media

The participation of citizens in a democratic government is often influenced by the media, particularly new communication technologies. The differences between mass media and new media are pertinent to understanding how each works to shape our opinions and perceptions. Students need to understand the role of both traditional mass media outlets and new media in shaping public participation in ou...

Quasi-Static Theory for Uniaxial Chiral Omega Media

The problem of unbounded uniaxial chiral omega media in the presence of both static electric and magnetic point charges is investigated. For this purpose scalar electric and magnetic potentials in these media are introduced. Using these potentials, the corresponding electric and magnetic fields are determined. The similar problem of static electric and magnetic current sources with the goal of ...

Otaku for Queer Theory and Media Theory

Media Concentration: Giving up on Democracy

Meyer for suggestions and advice. Portions of this Article were presented to the Communications Law Section of the AALS in New Orleans (Jan. 2002). A preliminary version is included in, Medienkonzentration und Angebotsvielfalt zwischen Kartell-und Rundfunkrecht (Uwe Blaurock ed. 2002) (conference proceedings) and as an appendix to Comments of the Consumers Union et al., MM Docket Nos. 01-235, 9...

Protein folding for realists: a timeless phenomenon.

Future research on protein folding must confront two serious dilemmas. (1) It may never be possible to observe at high resolution the very important structures that form in the first few milliseconds of the refolding reaction. (2) The energy functions used to predict structure from sequence will always be approximations of the true energy function. One strategy to resolve both dilemmas is to vi...