The Colombian Graffiti Explosion : 24 Hours of Writing in Bogota, Medellin, and Cali
Grafitti writing and street art have spread through the walls of Bogota and other Colombian cities during the last decade opening an important space of creative...
Author: andres lombana bermudez
Music and Humor : The Cartoon Music Aesthetic of Carl Stalling
Although the power of music to elicit emotions has been widely recognized, the capacity of music to produce laugher has been relatively unexplored. First of all...
Navigating Bogota Literary Patchwork
Fragmentation and discontinuity are the major characteristics of not only Bogotanian contemporary literature, but also of the urban and cultural landscape of th...
Gamification and Learning Environments
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to contribute to the MediaCommons project by joining a survey on “How does gamification affect learning?” The id...
The Transformations of Movie Palaces
Walking the Broadway at Los Angeles downtown turns into an investigation about the ruins of the 20th century entertainment industry. Footprints of movie palaces...
The Hispanic/Latino Label in the USA: Pan-ethnic? Multi-racial?
A recent national survey by the Pew Hispanic Center (2012) revealed that people from Latin American origins living in the USA that are usually categorized as “H...
Social Protests in Colombia: Farmers, Urban Youth and Digital Networked Media
The last two weeks of August in Colombia were pretty intense, unique, and inspiring in terms of social movements, media practices, and participation. The social...