LatinaLista — Teenagers with their faces caught in the traction beams of their smartphone screens are so ubiquitous these days that it’s spawned a documentary and new term — “screenagers.” With psychologists sounding the alarm that teens are addicted…
By Jessie Daniels The Conversation White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online and off – in both physical monuments and online domain names. A band of tiki-torch-carrying white nationalists gathered first online, and then at…
LatinaLista — Netflix may be striving for world domination but when it comes to Latin America they are now facing some formidable competition. Launched on March 4, 2016, Retina Latina is a new platform that streams high-quality Latin American…
By Bert Gambini Futurity When thinking about topics like political candidates or social policies, we tend to seek information that backs up our existing opinions and beliefs while avoiding contrary views. This is selective exposure, and internet technologies…
LatinaLista —One rising indicator of a country's influence and wealth is how tech-savvy is its workforce. While there's a rush to teach everyone, from toddlers to seniors, how to code, there's no substituting for people who are trained as…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Spanglish the Webseries Spanglish is an interactive web series about Mariola, the anti-typical Hispanic woman, living in New York City. With Latinos becoming a larger and larger demographic in America, the creators of this web series think…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Three Minute Post: 3-minute videos on world issues The founders of the Three Minute Post are graduates in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. They have spent years studying world politics,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Simpolfy – Bringing Politics into the 21st Century Frustrated with Washington? The power of the dollar has become greater than the power of the ballot, yet the two are intertwined. Why do politicians solicit funds? Typically,…
LatinaLista — Crowdfunding Campaign: Kids Can! Mexico Online Fifteen years ago, two remarkable women in rural Mexico started a school on a shoe string. Now they have a savvy plan to take all their 160 students online. The future…
By Nicol Turner-Lee, PH.D. Broadband & Social Justice The taglines on Twitter and Facebook read: “Breaking News, Donald Sterling Makes Racist Comments.” No one knew exactly the nature of those comments until the next tagline read, “Hear the Tape.”…
By Helen Yip Borderzine EL PASO — Rudy Sanchez’ sad eyes peered through tears below the beanie that nearly covered them as he stood in the empty living room of his Lower Valley home where his 14-year-old daughter, Viviana…
LatinaLista — This month Latinos in California reach an impressive milestone — surpassing whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in California. Yet, as more than one headline pointed out about the milestone, the larger number doesn’t really matter if…
By Marcella Gadson Broadband & Social Justice “Never ask for permission. Just start a revolution; just do it,” said Time Warner Cable External Affairs Vice President and Policy Counselor, Fernando Laguarda, paraphrasing civil rights icon Franklin McCain at MMTC’s…
Insight TR3S It’s no secret that young Latinos are big fans of technology. For a group that’s always on the go, cost-conscious, and highly social with friends and family near and far, they are very proficient at making the…
By Amber Robinson Broadband & Social Justice In the past few weeks, the attention of the American people has been trained on Healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance enrollment website, which is experiencing a number of technical problems. The website…
LatinaLista — Wherever there is a sizable Mexican American population, chances are some in that community will be celebrating the first two days of November with a revered Mexican tradition known as Dia de los Muertos. Long a popular…
By Elaine Rita Mendus Más Wired Maya Murillo is a blogger and musician in Arizona who has taken to social media, 6-second video social network Vine in particular, and nurtured an audience. She’s just just over 1,000 followers on…
LatinaLista — National constitutions are supposed to provide a sustainable structure for politics, yet only half live more than 19 years. It’s a sobering statistic that reinforced in University of Texas’ constitution scholar, Zachary Elkins, the resolve to provide constitution…
LatinaLista — What will the future of learning look like? Will it be done in schools? Will it be done virtually? Will there be teachers or holographic images? Will there be textbooks? The questions, along with, the possibilities, are…
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian HARLINGEN, TX — KMBH, the Rio Grande Valley’s public broadcasting station, is inviting viewers from around the world to watch the acclaimed new documentary, The Undocumented, online on Wednesday while at…
LatinaLista — SXSW has evolved into one of the premier seen-and-be-seen events in the country. The only problem was Latinos, as an organized group, were barely seen at all. That changed last year when Austin-based Cultural Strategies launched The…
By Insight Tr3s One of the most recognized and celebrated video games, played by millions of fans worldwide, Call of Duty, released its highly anticipated sequel this week, Call of Duty: Black Opps II. The game’s lead character is…
LatinaLista — Hollywood and Latinos used to be considered an oxymoron. Gradually, things have changed. Now more Latinos and Latinas are starring in primetime TV shows, co-starring in big screen films, appearing on cable TV shows, producing, writing and…
LatinaLista — Though Hurricane Isaac has delayed the start of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, organizers of the now three-day conservative political event have made sure that the convention doesn’t miss a day — in cyberspace….
LatinaLista — When it comes to the digital space, Latinos have embraced it with one big abrazo (hug). A January report by 360i Digital Connections found that there were roughly 32.2 million US Hispanics online, representing 14 percent of…
