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Story #1 – Fun Fair Reportage
“WHERE ARE THE MOTHERFUCKING MILFs AT?”, my co-journalist, my co-druggy, co-party, co-crazy shouts. “SSST, we’re undercover.” Deadly look shoots through my zebralined specs. “We’re on a mission, blend in with the crowd bitch.” The crowd- drab, grey, mindless. Good luck trying to blend in when you look like you skipped [...]
The driving force behind “Creating Waves” was the wish to expand the number of voices that create Maas-media’s message as well as the ears that are receptive to it. In order for the maas-mediamorphosis to take place, we wanted to establish a face to face connection that we deem necessary for the formation of an [...]
The Manifesto of Participatory Journalism from Maas Media on Vimeo.
Journalism and the role of mass media were in the past two centuries defined by the dichotomy of production and consumption. The publication of the news by an elite few, meant for solitary consumption in living rooms, trains and libraries around the world encouraged a culture [...]
The issue of ‘migration’, in particular ‘immigration’ has been much at the forefront of European political polemic in recent years, attracting strong opinions on either side of the debate. Among the political discourse, particularly since the recent economic downturn, there has been a strong anti-immigration argument. Not here. When it comes to taking a stance [...]
An insight into the UK’s discriminating immigration policies and its escalation
by Sara Heinrich
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Twenty years after people all over Europe went on the streets to demonstrate for their human right of freedom of movement and freedom to travel, the EU celebrates open borders for unlimited movement and freedom to travel for every EU-citizen. This much [...]
The European Union exemplifies an entity of a mixture of people that is determined by an intercultural society, which is often said to be the future of our globe. The Netherlands represents probably the most multicultural country within this bigger entity. Migrants from all over the world, including the writers and contributors of Maas-Media, have [...]
Ever since the advent of modernization, technology has been a primary ally to achieve political goals. It goes without saying that it plays a fundamental role in dealing with migration matters too. Within the process of selection of the migrants permitted to stay and those having to return home from European soil, technology is what [...]
The centrality of food and consumption for most issues of social and cultural concern can, to my opinion, not be over-emphasized. Food practices are constitutive of social identities and cultural differentiation. “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”, a phrase originally coined in the 1820s by Brillat-Savarin, a French [...]
Dear Reader,
welcome to the World Community of Migrants…
…that you are part of yourself! This Maas-Media issue is about migration. Discussions among Europeans about migration tend to convey a sense of urgency. Western nations states apparently are on the fringe of something dramatic. Either of exploding from the latest influx of migrants or of imploding from [...]
