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 “Hispanics” or “Latinos/as” do not identify with neither of those labels. While a majority (51%) said they most often identify themselves by their family’s country of origin, only 24%…

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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 protests of farmers (The Agriculture Strike or Paro Agrario) that began on August 19 in dispersed rural regions of the wide territory, slowly spread to the main cities and transformed…

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Problematizing Media Education

Media practitioners and theorists have sustained for many years a debate between the analytical/critical and the technical/practical approach to teaching media education. Because traditionally, production and analysis have been understood in opposition, there are many tensions between the two approaches to media education’ curriculum design. Even though in research articles, policy documents, and books, media…

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