FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 1)
On January 12 2010, after the catastrophic earthquake (magnitude 7.0 Mw) near Port au Prince that triggered a humanitarian crisis, hundreds of volunteers distri...
Author: andres lombana bermudez
Cinematic Language and Aural Imaginaries
Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this a...
Got Literacy?
“Literacy” is one of the English language words that has become more contested and opaque due to its spawning across diverse fields. Attached to dif...
Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...
Historic Artifacts in the City of Steel
Last week I was back in Chicago for the workshop meetings of the Connected Learning Research Network. During two days members of the different research teams di...
The Grotesque Imagery of Basil Wolverton
For a long time I have been interested in the popular arts. Their vernacular power and their low brow sensibility have captivated my attention and triggered my ...
Peelander Z : Performing Comic Action Punk in the 21st Century
“We are not Japanese, we are not Americans, we are not human beings, we came from planet Peelander” yelled Kengo Hioki at the terrace of the Elysium...