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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…

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 […]

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.””

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 […]