Understanding Immigrants Assimilation: Classic and Alternative Theories
Researchers, politicians, and the general public have used the concept of assimilation to describe the processes of incorporation of foreign immigrants to a hos...
Category: youth
Supporting Hip-Hop in Austin: the First Weird City Festival campaign
Remixing the famous motto of the city of Austin, the first hip-hop festival in town has been announced. The Weird City Fest will happen in September 2014 and th...
World Cup Memes: Robin Van Persie diving header or “la palomita”
The first goal of the Netherlands in the match against Spain was a fantastic head shot (kwnown as “palomita” in Latin America) performed by Robin Va...
Rethinking Youth Participation and Civic Engagment
This week, at the symposium “Digitally Connected: Towards a Global Community of Knowledge and Practice around Children, Youth, and Digital Media” organized by t...
Latino/Hispanic Immigrant Youth in the U.S
Immigrant youth experiences are all different. They vary according to a manifold of individual and structural factors. However, all immigrant youth confront sev...
AMX and the Growing Hip Hop Movement in ATX
One of the things that surprised me when I moved to Austin four years ago was that in “the music capital of the world” so little hip hop was perform...
Learning with Digital and Participatory Maps
In the digital era, maps are everywhere -from large-scale displays within galleries and museums, to mobile smartphone screens. Not only do maps allow us to navi...