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What about surveillance in the digital culture revolution?

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The planet of apps – how the smartphone changed the world

big tech: The planet of apps is probably one of the richest things you can now read about how we humans "sew together" with communication technology. But what about surveillance?
Truls Lie -
documentary

Aung San Suu Kyi's growth and international fall

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen: On The Inside of a Military Dictatorship

MYANMAR: Mentioning Myanmar as a military dictatorship in 2019 is as provocative as claiming that the emperor goes without clothes.
Audun@burma.no -
literature

Genocide in seductive colors

Patrick Brown: No Place on Earth

GENOCIDE: Exceptional photo book provides a shocking insight into the genocide of the Rohingya.
Ellen Lande -
documentary

The evil or the unbearable?

Barbet Schroeder: Le Vénérable W. ("The Honorable W.")

: Topical now, with the exile of the Royhinga people: The last part of Barbet Schroeder's Trilogy of Evil deals with the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu – the prime mover of anti-Muslim activity and the barn in Myanmar.
Dieter Wieczorek -
internationally

"The Lady" and the game about the Earth

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