La telenovela mexicana en el ciberespacio
por: Claudia Benassini Félix / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico (for English, click here) Los actores de “Senda Prohibida” La telenovela mexicana es uno de los productos más exitosos de la...
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View ArticleThe Personal Is Digital: Exploring Race, Beauty and Hair Online Briana...
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Checking his Twitter page, the grad student contemplates how many more people follow his account than will ever read his lifetime body of research This “article” is an indirect result of a dark...
View ArticleSaving New Sounds: Podcasts and Preservation Jeremy Wade Morris / University...
Golden Age of Podcasts for Everyone! We are, as commentators have noted, in the midst of a “Golden Age of Podcasts”; a moment where the choice for quality digital audio abounds, and where new voices...
View ArticleThe Labor of Transformation: Spaces of Feminine Imperfection in YouTube...
An “average” makeup tutorial on YouTube With the proliferation of “how to” videos on YouTube, the make-up tutorial has sprung up as one of the most popular—and profitable—video forms. These videos...
View ArticleLocked Down Listening / Communal Re-imaginationHolly Rogers / Goldsmiths,...
Singing from the balconies in Spain. Today we are listening harder than ever. But to what? Social distancing and isolation have reduced the noise of everyday life. As cities retreat indoors and...
View ArticleYour Mascot Could Never: The Effectiveness of Benny the Bull on TiktokJames...
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View ArticleDo we misremember Eternal September?Kevin Driscoll / University of virginia
America Online, “What’s New”, December 20, 1996, http://web.archive.org/web/19961220155121/http://www.aol.com/new/. Eternal September (or “the September that never ended”) is one of the best-known...
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