When:
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Center for Latinx Digital Media
Group: Center for Latinx Digital Media
Category: Academic
Throughout the academic year, Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over Zoom from 12-1 PM CT. You can now register (click here) to the seminar on Tuesday September 29, 2020 at 12-1 PM CT where Hector Amaya (University of Southern California) will give a presentation entitled “The uses and misuses of anonymity in the Mexican blogosphere.” Presentation abstract: The rules of participating in the Mexican blogosphere during the last decade have changed because of violence. To remain safe, bloggers and citizen journalists have routinely resorted to anonymity. This presentation analyzes celebrated anonymous Mexican blogs in relation to the uses and misuses of anonymity and the connections between anonymity, displacement, and technology. Anonymity enables participation in the Mexican public sphere. Yet, a public sphere based on anonymity is fraught and often disintegrating.
Hector Amaya researches Latinx media studies, immigration, and transnationalism. In addition to dozens of articles, he is the author of three books. His latest, Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States (Duke UP, 2020), explores changes to publicity due to the violence in Mexico and the United States.