Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 1)
The cover of BYTE magazine (the small systems journal) from November, 1976, is a color photograph of two children sat in front of what it seems to be a home com...
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Remixing El Caganer
Among the Catalan traditions that surprised me during the year I lived in Barcelona (2004), was the Caganer (literally translates: pooper, defecator), a popular...
Outer Space and the Home/Personal Computer
The history of the personal computer revolution has several myths. Some of them focus on individual geniuses (hackers, nerds, or hippies), others on single mach...
A Man as a Caricature: Cheech Marin
Today i went to a special event organized by the center for mexican american studies that featured the film screening of Born in East L.A and a talk with direct...
Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society
“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 ...
Power, cultural industries, and popular culture
The relationship between power and culture is at the core of several sociological and communication studies. In order to understand how mass modern societies st...