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Colombian journalists experience abundant threats and acts of violence as well as corporate and governmental obstacles to publishing the truth. In response, many reporters engage in self-censorship, eschewing stories to protect their livelihoods—and their very lives. Our in-depth interviews with sixteen journalists in the post-conflict era, some of...
The firm Masglo sells nail polish in several regions of the Americas, predominantly in its home of Colombia. Some of Masglo’s colors have been marketed through words associated with “slut-shaming” and other misogynistic concepts, which stimulated a 2015 consumer debate on Twitter and Facebook. We analyze the tweets from those exchanges and relate t...
El cine ha experimentado un crecimiento considerable en Colombia en los últimos 15 años, particularmente a partir de la Ley del Cine (Ley nº 814, 2003) que permitió y promovió el desarrollo de películas colombianas, a la vez que fomentó distintas etapas de creación y distribución audiovisual. No obstante, el incremento en producciones y algunos éxi...
The informal economy, public diplomacy, sexualized national imagery, and efforts to dynamize Colombia’s tourism industry through rebranding are synchronizing in a misogynistic, exploitative cocktail of promotional campaigns and child sex-trafficking, most notably in Cartagena de Indias. This odious mixture needs critique and reform. For while its s...
Through a content analysis of 532 programs screened on various national television networks in Colombia, this paper examines portrayals of women in the country’s narconovelas, fictional series derived from the telenovela genre that resonate forcefully with the public. We do so in order to gain a better understanding of their role in representing ge...
The paper engages with what we refer to as “sensitive media,” a concept associated with developments in the overall media environment, our relationships with media devices, and the quality of the media themselves. Those developments point to the increasing emotionality of the media world and its infrastructures. Mapping the trajectories of technolo...
This chapter focuses on the environmental impact of media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the challenges that green citizens and environmental groups face in greening their use of ICTs. For most of us, media technologies hardly seem like the kind of human creation that could cause any significant environmental harm. Media...
Whether we use the word “screen” to refer to smart cinema or stupid telephony, we need to engage it through twin theoretical prisms. On the one hand, it is a component of sovereignty that relates to territory, language, history, and education. On the other hand, it is a cluster of culture industries, subject to rent-seeking practices, exclusionary...
David Bowie doesn’t matter very much. That seems like a bizarre remark, particularly in a special issue dedicated to the opposite view. But in Latin America, he is of minimal importance by contrast with other prominent English-language pop-music exports that journal readers will know, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths or The Cure....
El artículo examina la teoría y la historia de la política cultural, un discurso de la Ilustración amenazado por el discurso de la nueva derecha de las industrias creativas. El discurso de las industrias creativas representa la respuesta más interesante y productiva a una crisis de relevancia de las humanidades y al surgimiento de una sociedad del...
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has an official timeline for the period covered by this chapter.¹ Though far from a detailed narrative or analysis, the timeline discloses some relevant common-sense themes about changes in producing and references to important developments in the labor process, race and gender, technology, and genre. The PGA’s...
This chapter focuses on both political economic and symbolic elements in Yanqui sport, in keeping with the complexities of US imperialism. It applies the new international division of cultural labor (NICL) to US professional sports and the bourgeois media utilizing a global labor pool and audience to modulate an oversupplied local market where play...
In the early twenty-first century, environmentally friendly accounting practices in the creative industries were confined to site-specific budgets of individual films or studio operations. Any external environmental costs were either ignored or written off as too hard to measure. This chapter considers the media's future by imagining a new kind of...
‘In Debate’ invites eight notable US scholars in the field of television studies to reflect on the current state of television studies as a discourse - its origins and methodologies, its value and legitimacy as a discipline - as well as speculate about further challenges.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.1 (2005) 112-117
There are several ways we can understand Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The program can be seen as
I believe that a political-economic shift is pressuring middle-class straight men in the United States to conform to norms exemplified in Queer Eye, even as a new demographic targeting mak...
This article offers a critique of the hegemonic masculinity thesis, initially from ethnomethodology and psychology. It then proposes an approach that combines the idea of “categorials” from the work of Harvey Sacks with a new political economy of looking. The article examines the situation of gay athletes in the context of the commodification of ma...
In "The Well-Tempered Self", Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Miller argues that capitalism's democratic politics requires selfless, community-minded citizens, while its economics depends on selfish, utilitarian consumers. To fulfil these conflicting n...
This paper seeks to paint a picture of how discernible links between Althusser and Foucault can assist us to theorise the life of cultural subjects inside established and emergent liberal-capitalist states. Althusser's querying of a humanistic foundation to political philosophy and the social contract is connected to Foucault's contention that mode...
