In this post I share my experience with a warped record I accidentally damaged by directly exposing it to sunlight, and that I was able to fix (unwarp) using a combination of repair methods.
In Bogota, the city where I live, the vaccination process has progressed the past months, and the restrictions to circulation have finally ended (they lasted for more than a year!). As businesses, restaurants, schools and public transportation reopen, the city is waking up after a long sleep. To provide a record of some of the…
For several years I was unaware of “educomunicacion” (in Spanish), a rich tradition and diverse movement of media literacy education that originated in Latin America in the 20th century and that continues to resonate today through the projects of many grassroots communities, social organizations, and the work of researchers and media educators (“educomunicadores“) in countries…
Blogging is one of the media practices and socio-technical systems that has made the world wide web what it is today. As a practice it has democratized writing, editing, and publishing at a scale that can be compared to the printed press. As a system, it has created a powerful infrastructure for creating, consuming, and…
Last November I was invited to participate in the conference “Cultura Social Media 2020” organized by the Escuela de Comunicaciones y Periodismo de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, in Chile, and delivered, via Zoom, a keynote about youth and digital citizenship. Moreover, I had the opportunity to join Sonia Livingstone in a discussion about how to bring…
Among all the variety of cumbias that have traveled across the Americas, the Cumbia Sabanera is one of my favorites. Its tempo, cadence, instruments, and lyrics are deeply connected to the culture of the Colombian Caribbean savanna and are powerful expressions of the sensibility of indigenous and mestizo peoples living in these extensive and warm…
The relationship between youth and digital technology has been at the center of the public discourse about digital culture, education and socialization in the last two decades. From the myth of the digital native to the alarms about cyber-bullying to the promotion of ed-tech and the debates about children digital rights young people have been…