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Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas. The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have...
Connecting the massive landscapes of North and South America is Mexico and Central America. An area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, these lands and peoples have played important roles in the discoveries and distributions of civilizations, resources, and nations for millennia. These regions have stimulated a large mass of research and publications across the many sub-disciplines of geography. The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography by Thomas A. Rumneycollects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly publications as possible to help and encourage efforts in the teaching, study, and continuing ...
While studying the theory and contemporary impact of ‘embodied’ viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years. By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories. Each scholar also lays out a current resear...
This book contains a range of invited and submitted papers presented at the 11th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, held in Karlstad, Sweden, in August 2016. The 17 revised full papers and one short paper included in this volume were carefully selected from a total of 42 submissions and were subject to a two-step review process. The papers combine interdisciplinary approaches to bring together a host of perspectives: technical, legal, regulatory, socio-economic, social, societal, political, ethical, anthropological, philosophical, and psychological. The paper 'Big Data Privacy and Anonymization' is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Online Activism in Latin America examines the innovative ways in which Latin American citizens, and Latin@s in the U.S., use the Internet to advocate for causes that they consider just. The contributions to the volume analyze citizen-launched websites, interactive platforms, postings, and group initiatives that support a wide variety of causes, ranging from human rights to disability issues, indigenous groups’ struggles, environmental protection, art, poetry and activism, migrancy, and citizen participation in electoral and political processes. This collection bears witness to the early stages of a very unique and groundbreaking form of civil activism culture now growing in Latin America.
Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 thousand people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story.
Pantallas, ecosistema de medios, TV, redes sociales, convergencia, transmedia, meta-medio, culturas participativas, nube, experiencias, consumo, ciudadanía, audiencias, usuarios y dispositivos móviles, entre otros elementos, constituyen la atmósfera de la era digital en la que se desenvuelve este libro. Auscultando el presente, oteando el pasado, vislumbrando el futuro, los autores de esta obra analizan la metamorfosis de la TV en el nuevo escenario comunicacional. Las reflexiones, en su conjunto, se alejan de posiciones tecnofílicas y tecnofóbicas. Ahora bien, retomando una de las preguntas que plantea Carlos Scolari, ¿Podemos seguir definiendo estas prácticas de consumo audiovisual como "ver televisión"? No hay respuestas definitivas ni certezas absolutas, en todo caso, este libro ofrece una serie de coordenadas desde donde pensar la condición comunicacional contemporánea. Lo convergente, afirma Guillermo Orozco, como tendencia y fenómeno contemporáneo distingue y a la vez define mucha de la interacción que todos tenemos con los diferentes dispositivos tecnológicos a nuestro alcance.
¿De qué depende que la democracia perdure? Una pregunta como ésta no sólo reviste un interés abstracto o puramente intelectual. Hoy en día es una pregunta clave para entender los desafíos que enfrenta la democracia en numerosos países, México entre ellos. El propósito de los estudios reunidos en esta obra es analizar, precisamente, la capacidad de resistencia de la democracia mexicana ante la transformación política promovida por el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. La premisa compartida es que el régimen político enfrenta la amenaza más real e inmediata de retroceso autoritario en al menos tres décadas. ¿De qué depende que la subversión democrática progrese, se ...