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This piece about mobile media use helped me more fully register (if that makes sense) the cultural intricacies associated with the phenomenon. Just like Grandinetti and Eszenyi (2018) highlight, “Within infrastructures of high-speed and mobile connectivity, immediate access to content is part of social routines.” is something that we as Westerners take for granted because… read full post >>

This piece about mobile media use helped me more fully register (if that makes sense) the cultural intricacies associated with the phenomenon. Just like Grandinetti and Eszenyi (2018) highlight, “Within infrastructures of high-speed and mobile connectivity, immediate access to content is part of social routines.” is something that we as Westerners take for granted because… read full post >>

I really loved getting a more complex understanding of the narconovelas this week because I am a frequent watcher of telenovelas and occasionally narconovelas. However, I do find that occasionally these novels can be a reflection of society because if we go back to the section on narcocorridos there is a deeply rooted connection between […] read full post >>

This week, I was fascinated by the article “La Revolución Digital: Mobile Media Use in Contemporary Cuba”. Back when COVID-19 didn’t restrict travel (what feels like a lifetime ago), I went to Cuba with my family for a week. It was strange to be in a country that was so detached from the world. IContinue reading "Week 13: TV and The Internet" read full post >>

This article shows how internet access is not yet democratic. In the Global North, there is this idea that globalization made the world smaller because people anywhere in the world are connected to the internet. However, not everyone everywhere is connected to the globalized internet network. Part of me thinks this is good because accessContinuar lendo "“La Revolucion digital: mobile media use in contemporary Cuba.”" read full post >>

Nick Morgan’s take on Sin tetas no hay paraíso is particularly interesting to me this week. One of the most interesting points Morgan makes in his article is that film noir and narconovelas are similar in style and roles within society. In this article, the author remarks how film noir was originally viewed as sensationalist and …

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Although I have never seen a narconovela in my life, I have had my share of telenovelas that were an essential part of dinner/lunch tables (whenever there wasn’t football) and siestas of most days. I’m not going to lie, they have always confused me. In my perspective, they had clumsy acting, chaotic plot twists and […] read full post >>

One of this week’s readings, “La revolución digital: mobile media use in contemporary Cuba” by Justin Grandinetti and Marie Elizabeth Eszenyi touches base on exactly that: the use of mobile media in contemporary Cuba. With a focus on what exactly Cuba and Cuban media look like, why, and how, results are discussed based on dataContinue reading "Week 13: TV and the internet" read full post >>

Sex, Soap, and Society: Telenovela Noir in Alvaro Uribe’s Colombia Growing up I remember my mom watching Colombian telenovelas all the time. Her favourite being Cafe con Aroma de Mujer (which literally translates to Coffee with the Scent of a Women). I was never allowed to watch with her so I never really got interestedContinue reading "Week 13: TV and The Internet LAST 201" read full post >>

The Article “Sex, soap and society: telenovela noir in Alvaro Uribe’s Colombia” by Nick Morgan is very informative in terms of explaining the rise of telenovelas; in particular narconovelas in the early 2000’s in Colombia. To be honest right off the bat after reading the introduction seeing the word ‘narco’ ingrained in narconovelas it drew […] read full post >>