Walking the Broadway at Los Angeles downtown turns into an investigation about the ruins of the 20th century entertainment industry. Footprints of movie palaces still remain visible. Their structures have been reappropriated though. Immigrant communities have reclaimed most of these architectural spaces and have redesigned them, adapting them to their informal commerce practices. Former cinema,…
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%…
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…
It took us 120 minutes to walk/draw the F1 track in east Austin, the underdeveloped area of the city and formerly segregated zone for African Americans and Latino/Hispanics (mostly Mexicans). In contrast, the wining race car did 56 laps in 90 minutes in the the F1 Austin Circuit of Americas track in November 2012.
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…
One week ago I was back in Cambridge for the Media in Transition conference at MIT. Returning to the constellation of cities that compose the metropolitan area of Boston is always great. I enjoy a lot the kind of conversations, encounters, and trajectories I can have there. It is an excellent place for net-weaving, for…
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