Gran Bretaña

This doctoral contribution borrows from the discursive practices of transnationalism and diaspora in order to articulate the concept of “transnational audiences” in the United States. The project identifies transnational audiences as formed by individuals and families whose lives straddle two national territories. It draws on the traditions of cultural studies and reception analysis as a strategy to explore the relation between media use and novel experiences of migration in a context of contemporary gl obalization. This conceptual background is the result of empirical research conducted in Los Angeles which investigated the television news reception of 67 informants of Mexican origin during three months in 2006. Relying on a range of qualitative research methods based in the domestic settings of the participants, the project found high levels of interests across a variety of news occurring in Los Angeles, the US, Mexico and further afield. During interviews, television news-viewing sessions and in daily written accounts, respondents constantly conveyed the idea of being directly impacted by a wide vari ety of events and developments in the news, regardless of geographic proximity.

UK

Este artículo revisita el desarrollo intelectual de los estudios culturales en América Latina para evaluar los desafíos presentes e identificar líneas de investigación. Se argumenta que mucha de la literatura ha fallado en considerar seriamente aspectos clave de los estudios culturales, como la necesidad de ser críticos sobre sus propias premisas epistemológicas y la necesidad de estudiar la cultura dentro de las formaciones sociales más amplias.

UK

Este artículo enfoca la cobertura de la teledifusora estadounidense Univisión, a propósito de la ley de Arizona que criminaliza a los inmigrantes indocumentados. El análisis de contenido revela la presencia de esferas públicas diaspóricas, una noción que generalmente se refiere relaiconada con las comunidades transnacionales en su patria de origen, pero que rara vez ha sido explorada empíricamente en los contextos de los países receptores de la migración.