Typecasting is a hybrid media format for publishing content on the web, especially in blogs. To typecast means to post an image of a text that has been written using a typewriter machine. The image could be scanned or photographed and appears embedded in a webpage as the body of text of a blog [...]
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various fanzines The creation of fanzines has been a prolific youth-made media activity among female and male youth members of, punk, post punk, and club cultures. Fanzines have been very important for the development of youth media entrepreneurial practices, and for the sustainability of youth cultures as well, because they are relatively easy to [...] The development of late capitalism, the advance of consumer culture, and the increasing proliferation of media technologies in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, created the contexts for a different understanding of youth cultures. During this period of time, female and male youth engaged in productive cultural practices that could be analyzed beyond the narrow [...] Following the traces of the youth grassroots media production in Austin has been exciting. It is nice and intellectually challenging to discover new worlds. As I decided to pursue the project of documenting some of the practices of the local youth (sub) cultural scene, I have been talking to some of the baristas in [...] Coffee houses have been at the center of the public interactions of modern cities and societies. Although nowadays, they are not particularly the places for the discussion of public affairs and the circulation of information (this tends to happen in other mediated spaces), they are still important places to hang out, get drinks and [...] The journey of cumbia, a rhythm from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, across the Americas is an interesting example of the power of Caribbean music to transcend national borders and provide inspiration for the emergence of new music styles. During the second half of the 20th century, cumbia was appropriated and hybridized in Argentina, Mexico, [...] |
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