Media Manipulation, Cheap Fake Videos, and Politics in Colombia
The dynamics of political communication in democratic societies have changed as digital technologies have spread around the world, and, particularly, as social ...
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Imaginaries of Data and Digital Rights among Latin American communities: A podcast series
The project “Imaginaries of data and digital rights” aims to create spaces for generating and promoting conversations about local imaginaries of data and ...
The Influencer Paradox*
The term “influencer” has gained great relevance in the last decade around the world to designate content creators on digital platforms and social n...
The Music of the Dinamita Brothers (Hermanos Dinamita) (circa 2002)
Some music projects last for long periods of time, others are just a matter of months or weekends. It is not easy to keep a band of amateur musicians together. ...
The Fragility of Vinyl Records: Sunlight Damage and Repair
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 ...
“Educomunicacion”: The Media Education (and literacy) Approach from Latin America
For several years I was unaware of “educomunicacion” (in Spanish), a rich tradition and diverse movement of media literacy education that originated...