Last summer i started to ride long distances and really enjoyed the experience of discovering new landscapes and spending a lot of physical energy on locomotion. I did several rides across massachusetts using the red basket bicycle that i got in the acetarium. It was a japanese bike from the 70s in pretty good shape…
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 showed beautiful women dancing at a beach. People say, it is like lambada, the forbidden dance? I usually make jokes about that. However,…
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 have more space for developing my arguments, ideas, curiosities, exploits, and opinions. In recent years, most of my everyday publishing activity has centered around microblogging in twitter,…
bienvenidos otra vez.
“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 years of electrical transmission of written messages across the United States of America and the world, Western Union, the first communication empire, announced the discontinuity of the telegram messaging…
September 16th, 2009 (first published on vVvAlog at MIT) Social and communications researchers should be moving if we want to create new knowledge about the complex world where we live and if we want to change it. In our studies we should not only adopt a multi-methodological approach combining the positivist, systems, critical, and interpretative…
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, the politics, the jet set, the reality that is public to everybody. the narrative strategy of the telenovela has permeated everything. it seems to…