“Educomunicación”: The Media Education (and literacy) Approach from Latin America
For several years I was unaware of “educomunicación” (in Spanish), a rich tradition and diverse movement of media literacy education that originated...
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Diffusing Innovations
From the study of the spread of a hybrid corn seed among U.S. Midwestern farmers to the examination of the adoption of computer centers among the urban poor in ...
Zombies in Revolt
Stories of ghosts and appearances of the dead are common in Cartagena de Indias. Virgins, pirates, saints, and deceased international personalities have appeare...
Data is Power: Privacy and the Surveillance Economy
The ubiquity of computing and networking technologies, massive adoption of mobile devices and apps, and the rise of social media platforms, are rapidly transfor...
Time Sellers: A Telecommunication Informal Economy in Urban Colombia
Time is gold. Minutes are money. Literally, in the streets of Bogota and other Colombian cities, you can buy minutes for hundreds of pesos. Selling time is one ...
Evolving Digital Inequalities: Understanding the Changing Countours of Divides and Gaps
Over the last three decades, the rapid development and adoption of digital technology infrastructures, tools, and practices, has given rise to a new communicati...
Book review : The Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers By Tom Standage. New York : Walker and Co., 19...