Lambada, the Forbidden Dance
Many times in north America people confuse my last name with the name of a dance and a song that was popular in the 1990s and that had an infamous video that sh...
Author: andres lombana bermudez
Back Again
After having started and stopped several weblogs, I have decided to come back to the logging practice, in its long format, in order to exercise my writing and h...
hola mundo!
bienvenidos otra vez.
Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society
“Diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land” (Samuel Morse, 1938) In January 27 of 2006, after 155 ...
Power, cultural industries, and popular culture
The relationship between power and culture is at the core of several sociological and communication studies. In order to understand how mass modern societies st...
Updating Habermas’ Public Sphere
The seminal idea of the public sphere introduced by Habermas in 1962 has remained popular until today because it is very useful both for legitimizing, and also ...
Diffusion of netbooks in the U.S.A
Netbooks are a kind of personal computers characterized by a small size, low weight, low power consumption, and low cost. They are diskless, use inexpensive com...