Public lecture of Prof. Daya Thussu “De-Americanizing the Internet?”
The public lecture of prof. Daya Thussu organized by Laboratory for Internet Studies was held on April, 24. The talk was aimed to evaluate how the present and proposed changes in Internet-based media in large countries – such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members - will impact on global communication.
News preferences of Twitter users
Twitter users from different countries tend to read different types of news, a recent study by Brazilian scholar Marco Toledo Bastos has shown. Brits and Americans read world news and opinionated pieces, Spaniards prefer local news, while Brazilians favor items on football.