With dramatic delivery, one of the newest American short story writers read two selec­ tions from her latest work, Black Tickets, last night in the Library Auditorium. Sensual in nature, both dealt with a char­ acter’s inner perception of life. Jayne Anne Phillips, at 26 critically acclaimed, spoke to an overflow crowd of 450, as the Sophomore Literary Festival continued. She opened with “ Home...

The penetration and growth of the Internet, as a key technology of the 21st century, caused to some major changes in all individual and social aspects of human life. Some of these changes, which associated with the evolution and changes in the concepts, including legal and political ones, have become a challenge. Identity as a legal and Government as a political concepts are in those fields whi...

Addressing debates about culture and globalization , this paper looks at how identity and place is produced through and within digital media infrastructures. “Network locality” describes affiliation that spans geography through media technology, but is grounded in concrete places, practices, and material relations. The contrast between global flows and local practice and identity is the wrong s...