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…
The relationship between power and culture is at the core of several sociological and communication studies. In order to understand how mass modern societies stay together sharing values, beliefs, and images of the world among their citizens, researchers and theoreticians have looked at how culture is produced, distributed, and consumed, what are the characteristics of…
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 imagining, the development of democratic capitalist societies. However, Habermas’ idea needs to be updated in order to fit the dynamics of late-capitalism and the post-modern fragmentation. In an…
Netbooks are a kind of personal computers characterized by a small size, low weight, low power consumption, and low cost. They are diskless, use inexpensive components and rely in free software and Software-as-a-Service applications. Although they can perform the general computing processes of a desktop and a laptop, their CPU power is low and cannot…