Post-Truth and Populismo
“Post-truth” is the word of the year 2016 according to the Oxford dictionaries. After the dynamics of the U.K. Brexit, the Colombian Referendum, and...
Category: politics
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 ...
Understanding Globalization
Talking about globalization is certainly a common place nowadays. Everybody uses that word, from scholars to marketers, from politicians to journalists. It has ...
Public Ambivalence
The word “public” has an ambivalent meaning. Perhaps because of that, it is one of most evocative and suggestive terms in the political discourse of the western...
telenovela and the dramatization of everything
July 30th, 2009 (re-posted from vVvAlog at mit) after almost two months of being in my home country i want to write a few things about the public life, the news...