“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...
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Exploring Caribbean food culture in Cartagena de Indias: La Calle de Tripita y Media
The streets of Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia, are full of history, flavors, and colors. Both in their names and architecture, in their walls and cobbles, the...
Colombian Audiovisual Memory in YouTube
Among all the metaphors that can be used to understand YouTube, I choose the one of an archive because it allows me to explore the relation between media and me...
AMX and the Growing Hip Hop Movement in ATX
One of the things that surprised me when I moved to Austin four years ago was that in “the music capital of the world” so little hip hop was perform...
Informal Photo-Booths in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Regardless of the massive adoption of digital cameras and other mobile devices capable of recording images and of the massification of amateur photography, the ...
The Grotesque Imagery of Basil Wolverton
For a long time I have been interested in the popular arts. Their vernacular power and their low brow sensibility have captivated my attention and triggered my ...
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...