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MARIANA BARRERA

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  • MARIANA BARRERA wrote a new blog post: Reporte Virtual: Sharing Content and Realities   7 months, 2 weeks ago

    “Latin America has a long tradition of monopolies and cronyism in the media and  independent spaces are hard to find, even today,” says Daniel Eilemberg, one of the directors of Reporte Virtual, a new documentary reportage digital platform that aims to offer a fresh look at the political, economic and social situation of this region.

    Launched

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Alejandro Pisanty are now friends   7 months, 3 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA commented on the blog post Mexican protesters go digital: the #internetnecesario experience   8 months ago

    Dear Alejandro, thank you for your comment, I will correct that information. It was very interesting for me to write this article, I think that the Internet Necesario initiative opens a new alternative for social protest in Mexico that had not yet been considered. I hope it is only the first of many of its

  • MARIANA BARRERA wrote a new blog post: Mexican protesters go digital: the #internetnecesario experience   8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Social networks have become the new public spaces for debate and accountability

    It all started in a tweet. After Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced his tax package proposal for 2010 last month, which among other things suggested taxing telecommunications with a 4 percent tax for considering them “a luxury,” Alejandro Pisanty, a professor of UNAM in

  • MARIANA BARRERA commented on the blog post Iranian Green Movement in New Media   9 months, 2 weeks ago

    Mehdi, building on what Michael points out, I was wondering if in Iran is common that people speak English. I ask you this because in Mexico for instance people who do speak English are usually those who have access to certain education, and pertain to a “higher social class.”
    I think on this because it has

  • MARIANA BARRERA commented on the blog post Oxfam Mexico: pushing the limits   9 months, 2 weeks ago

    As far as I understood, they are linking their website to their Facebook and MySpace accounts through RSS feeds to spread information about their work and engage their “friends” to their causes. If there is any social mobilization or expression they want to call to, these two tools have also proved useful as in the

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Peter Cervieri are now friends   9 months, 3 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Debora Mordkowski are now friends   9 months, 3 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Mehdi Jalali are now friends   9 months, 3 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA wrote a new blog post: Oxfam Mexico: pushing the limits   9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Like many developing countries, Mexico is lagging behind the technological and digital revolution. Only around 20 percent of the population has Internet access, and about 28 percent doesn’t even have a computer. However this trend has been changing and more and more people, particularly youth, are using various platforms and social networks, and have demonstrated

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Hama Makino are now friends   9 months, 4 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA commented on the blog post Media. Communication. Protest.   10 months, 1 week ago

    I love those kinds of facts, I think they are very useful to gauge the amount of information that is out there on the Web.
    Last class seemed really interesting, and I thought that the three case studies were very illustrative of how social media can help to generate a profound social and political change.
    I

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Russell Lemler are now friends   10 months, 2 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Michael Cervieri are now friends   10 months, 2 weeks ago

  • MARIANA BARRERA and Clara Martinez Turco are now friends   10 months, 2 weeks ago

  • MARIANA updated the ”General Info” information on their profile   10 months, 2 weeks ago