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Airplay, Vol. 17, No. 1, Maine Public Broadcasting Network Sep 2005

Airplay, Vol. 17, No. 1, Maine Public Broadcasting Network

Airplay: MPBN Radio Program Guide

Airplay is published to provide the most thorough information possible about MPBN Radio and its programs, hopefully in a visually appealing way. Each month of Airplay features works by Maine artists and photographers on its cover. Maine Public Broadcasting Network Radio is a member of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Eastern Public Radio Network (EPRN). Maine Public Broadcasting was founded by the University of Maine System and Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges.


Workshop On U.S.-Hungarian Research Collaboration To Address It Challenges For 21st Century Society, Anthony Stefanidis Aug 2005

Workshop On U.S.-Hungarian Research Collaboration To Address It Challenges For 21st Century Society, Anthony Stefanidis

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This collaborative grant workshop lays a foundation for building joint US-Hungarian research projects. The proposed set of activities is an outgrowth of ongoing discussions between NSF program managers and Hungarian Research Scientists visiting NSF in the Fall of 2002. These discussions culminated in Hungarian researchers attending and participating in the annual meeting of digital government PI's and their government agency partners in May 2003 (dgo2003). Two US researchers who organized an International Digital Government Research Collaborations panel at dgo2003, in discussion with the Hungarian participants, accepted an invitation by the Hungarians to organize a small group of US researchers to …


1-800-(Re)Colonize: A Feminist Postcolonial And Performance Analysis Of Call Center Agents In India Performing U.S. Cultural Identity, Kimberlee Perez Aug 2005

1-800-(Re)Colonize: A Feminist Postcolonial And Performance Analysis Of Call Center Agents In India Performing U.S. Cultural Identity, Kimberlee Perez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The contemporary historical moment finds us in a web of globalization that spans the globe. While our interconnectedness brings us into unforeseen communications, we enter the conversation grounded in particular subject locations. Postcolonial subjectivities hold strategic memories of colonial violences as a means of survival and resistance while colonizing forces hold onto binary narratives of their own superiority. Globalization provides the context wherein decolonized and colonizing nations interact with unequal power resulting in multifaceted outcomes, one of which I argue is a re-colonial dynamic. The phenomenon of U.S. corporate outsourcing to India is one instance where a re-colonial dynamic occurs. …