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The financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a controversial decade that gave way to a dark era of war, terrorism, mass displacement, the resurgence of xenophobic white nationalism, ISIS, Brexit, Trumpism, and other issues that came to define a turbulent era. This research paper examines the economic contexts and theories of capital that contitute the difference in digital media research; The questions that digital media research must enquire to respond to a world in crisis; How did transformations in digital media technologies change the nature of the questions asked by media and cultural studies scholars, the theoretical frameworks, or the methodologies they used?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The miserable failure of the enforced strategy for moving from the former economic regime towards market economy through applying the flawed neoliberal economic policies during the period (2003-2023), necessitates radical change of public investment criteria for utilizing public ownership of oil wealth in order to ensure optimal economic production, and to finance public investment projects necessary to achieve the targeted growth of production sectors and improving the deteriorated public services. The paper aims to identify the conditions required for optimal production and assess the real economic cost of utilizing oil wealth, as well as regulate the foreign exchange rate's accordingly, through a proposed model of dual central economic planning and competitive market mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]