The Changing Practices of the Hip Hop DJ
Since its beginnings the art of DJ-ing has evolved dynamically along with the evolution of audio technologies such as speakers, mixers, storage devices, and mus...
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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...
Enduring Analog Printing Presses
The sound of the printing press was what at first called my attention. We were walking nearby the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City downtown when a percussive ...
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 ...
Demystifying Open Source (part 2)
Although the marketing campaign and the creation of the OS revolution have been a success regarding the mainstreaming the OS label and the creation of a grand n...
Demystifying Open Source (part 1)
Open Source (OS) can be associated with several things, a community, a movement, a revolution, a mode of production, a culture, a non-propietary computer softwa...