LATINA/OS AND THE MEDIA: A NATIONAL CATEGORY WITH TRANSNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

ABSTRACT: This essay focuses on the category of Latina/os, which was created in the United States to refer to the portion of the population with recent and/or historical roots in Latin America, and the love/hate or fear and desire relation of the US and Latina/os – desire of spectacular bodies and fear of working bodies – that is borne out by representations of Latina/os in mainstream media. The transnational circulation of these representations through popular culture expands their presence and meaning across the globe in ways that are unintended and deserve further study.KEYWORDS: Latina/os, media, representation RESUMO: Neste artigo, discuto a categoria latina/os, criada nos Estados Unidos para se referir à parcela da população com raízes recentes e/ou históricas na América Latina, e a relação amor/ódio ou medo e desejo entre os Estados Unidos e os latinos – desejo por corpos espetaculares e medo dos corpos trabalhadores –, corroborada por representações dos latinos na mídia convencional. A circulação transnacional dessas representações, por meio da cultura popular, expande sua presença e seus significados ao redor do planeta, de maneira nem sempre intencional, mas que deve/merece ser estudada.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Latina/os, mídia, representação

WITS: Women, Information Technology and Scholarship in the 1990s

The collective FemTechNet produced this video about a group at the University of Illinois in the 1990s known as WITS, Women, Information Technology, and Scholarship. Four former WITS members—Jenny Barrett, Leigh Estabrook, Gail Hawisher, and Angharad Valdivia--discuss with Sharon Irish the role of WITS on campus and in the broader IT world. Filmed in September 2013 in Urbana-Champaign.Center for Digital Inclusion, School of Information SciencesOpe

Prensa, mujer y revolución

En este estudio se ha adoptado la idea que las noticias son afectadas por la cultura, el período histórico en que se producen y el sistema político bajo el cual se producen. Afirma que la OBJETIVIDAD implica relaciones iguales de poder, una situación que no aplica ni al Tercer Mundo ni a la Mujeres. Esta investigación intenta demostrar con un análisis cuantitativo de cuatro periódicos si Barricada, The Guardian, The New York Time y la Prensa,reflejan la participación de la mujer nicaragüense en la lucha revolucionaria y en el proceso de desarrollo

Prensa, mujer y revolución

En este estudio se ha adoptado la idea que las noticias son afectadas por la cultura, el período histórico en que se producen y el sistema político bajo el cual se producen. Afirma que la OBJETIVIDAD implica relaciones iguales de poder, una situación que no aplica ni al Tercer Mundo ni a la Mujeres. Esta investigación intenta demostrar con un análisis cuantitativo de cuatro periódicos si Barricada, The Guardian, The New York Time y la Prensa,reflejan la participación de la mujer nicaragüense en la lucha revolucionaria y en el proceso de desarrollo

Gender, press and revolution: A textual analysis of three newspapers in Nicaragua's Sandinista period, 1979-1988

This dissertation is a study of the intersection of gender, the press, and revolution. As such it bridges disciplinary boundaries between women's studies and mass communications studies. From a gender perspective, this study focuses on Third World women and on the inherent tensions between socialism and feminism. From communications, this work draws on news and international issues literature and the inherent tensions between Western news models and developmental goals. This allows the author to examine how women and gender politics were presented in Nicaragua's press during the Sandinista years between 1979 and 1988.Methodologically this study falls between a strict content analysis and a semiotic reading of the press. One of the chapters is composed of a reading of the entire universe of available newspapers for that year. Based on that extensive survey, categories were developed to be applied to the sampled issues for the following eight years. The sample was not random but purposive, based on dates and issues suggested by local journalists.Some of the findings of this study concur with previous research while others are new. The Nicaraguan experience underscores the difficulty of pursuing both socialism and gender reform simultaneously. The study suggests that laws in combination with a previously existing and well-organized women's movement do open some space for the implementation of radical gender reform. Thus a revolution is a prerequisite but not a sufficient variable in this process. The study also suggests that given legal reforms and organized women, the influence on the press, at the organizational and content level, can be significant. In Nicaragua the Sandinistas' attempt to democratize political participation through mass organizations and to prioritize daily issues along with economics and defense, resulted in a news frame that included women and gender politics in a manner that is nearly impossible in a liberal context of politics and journalism.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio

A companion to media studies/ Edit. : Angharad N. Valdivia

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