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This volume features a collection of contributed articles and
lecture notes from the XIII Symposium on Probability and Stochastic
Processes, held at UNAM, Mexico, in December 2017. It is split into
two main parts: the first one presents lecture notes of the course
provided by Mauricio Duarte, followed by its second part which
contains research contributions of some of the participants.
The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media.
Just ten years ago, discussions of Latina/o media could be safely
reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated by Univision and
Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political economy
have resulted in an unprecedented rise in major new media ventures
for Latinos as everyone seems to want a piece of the Latina/o media
market. While current scholarship on Latina/o media have mostly
revolved around important issues of representation and stereotypes,
this approach does not provide the entire story. In Contemporary
Latina/o Media, Arlene Davila and Yeidy M. Rivero bring together an
impressive range of leading scholars to move beyond analyses of
media representations, going behind the scenes to explore issues of
production, circulation, consumption, and political economy that
affect Latina/o mass media. Working across the disciplines of
Latina/o media, cultural studies, and communication, the
contributors examine how Latinos are being affected both by the
continued Latin Americanization of genres, products, and audiences,
as well as by the whitewashing of "mainstream" Hollywood media
where Latinos have been consistently bypassed. While focusing on
Spanish-language television and radio, the essays also touch on the
state of Latinos in prime-time television and in digital and
alternative media. Using a transnational approach, the volume as a
whole explores the ownership, importation, and circulation of
talent and content from Latin America, placing the dynamics of the
global political economy and cultural politics in the foreground of
contemporary analysis of Latina/o media.
This volume features a collection of contributed articles and
lecture notes from the XIII Symposium on Probability and Stochastic
Processes, held at UNAM, Mexico, in December 2017. It is split into
two main parts: the first one presents lecture notes of the course
provided by Mauricio Duarte, followed by its second part which
contains research contributions of some of the participants.
Promoting Behavioral Health and Reducing Risk Among College
Students synthesizes the large body of research on college
students' behavioral health and offers guidance on applying
evidence-based prevention and early intervention strategies using a
comprehensive public health framework. Chapters authored by leading
researchers and practitioners address a broad spectrum of important
behavioral health issues, interventions, and challenges. Moving
beyond a theoretical discussion to strategies for implementation,
this book addresses the special issues and potential barriers faced
by practitioners as they translate research to practice, such as
resource limitations, organizational resistance, challenges to
program sustainability, and the unique needs of special
populations. This cutting-edge compendium will appeal to both
practitioners and researchers involved in providing prevention,
early intervention, and treatment services for college students.
Promoting Behavioral Health and Reducing Risk Among College
Students synthesizes the large body of research on college
students' behavioral health and offers guidance on applying
evidence-based prevention and early intervention strategies using a
comprehensive public health framework. Chapters authored by leading
researchers and practitioners address a broad spectrum of important
behavioral health issues, interventions, and challenges. Moving
beyond a theoretical discussion to strategies for implementation,
this book addresses the special issues and potential barriers faced
by practitioners as they translate research to practice, such as
resource limitations, organizational resistance, challenges to
program sustainability, and the unique needs of special
populations. This cutting-edge compendium will appeal to both
practitioners and researchers involved in providing prevention,
early intervention, and treatment services for college students.
The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media.
Just ten years ago, discussions of Latina/o media could be safely
reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated by Univision and
Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political economy
have resulted in an unprecedented rise in major new media ventures
for Latinos as everyone seems to want a piece of the Latina/o media
market. While current scholarship on Latina/o media have mostly
revolved around important issues of representation and stereotypes,
this approach does not provide the entire story. In Contemporary
Latina/o Media, Arlene Davila and Yeidy M. Rivero bring together an
impressive range of leading scholars to move beyond analyses of
media representations, going behind the scenes to explore issues of
production, circulation, consumption, and political economy that
affect Latina/o mass media. Working across the disciplines of
Latina/o media, cultural studies, and communication, the
contributors examine how Latinos are being affected both by the
continued Latin Americanization of genres, products, and audiences,
as well as by the whitewashing of "mainstream" Hollywood media
where Latinos have been consistently bypassed. While focusing on
Spanish-language television and radio, the essays also touch on the
state of Latinos in prime-time television and in digital and
alternative media. Using a transnational approach, the volume as a
whole explores the ownership, importation, and circulation of
talent and content from Latin America, placing the dynamics of the
global political economy and cultural politics in the foreground of
contemporary analysis of Latina/o media.
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the
1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this
period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a
dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon
and promoter of Cuba's identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting
Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how
television owners, regulatory entities, critics, and the state
produced Cuban modernity for television. The Cuban television
industry enabled different institutions to convey the nation's
progress, democracy, economic abundance, high culture, education,
morality, and decency. After nationalizing Cuban television, the
state used it to advance Fidel Castro's project of creating a
modern socialist country. As Cuba changed, television changed with
it. Rivero not only demonstrates television's importance to Cuban
cultural identity formation, she explains how the medium functions
in society during times of radical political and social
transformation.
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the
1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this
period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a
dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon
and promoter of Cuba's identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting
Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how
television owners, regulatory entities, critics, and the state
produced Cuban modernity for television. The Cuban television
industry enabled different institutions to convey the nation's
progress, democracy, economic abundance, high culture, education,
morality, and decency. After nationalizing Cuban television, the
state used it to advance Fidel Castro's project of creating a
modern socialist country. As Cuba changed, television changed with
it. Rivero not only demonstrates television's importance to Cuban
cultural identity formation, she explains how the medium functions
in society during times of radical political and social
transformation.
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin
American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto
Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics
that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico's commercial
media from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Yeidy M. Rivero advances
critical discussions about race, ethnicity, and the media. She
shows that televisual representations of race have belied the
racial egalitarianism that allegedly pervades Puerto Rico's
national culture. White performers in blackface have often
portrayed "blackness" in local television productions, while black
actors have been largely excluded.Drawing on interviews,
participant observation, archival research, and textual analysis,
Rivero considers representations of race in Puerto Rico, taking
into account how they are intertwined with the island's status as a
U.S. commonwealth, its national culture, its relationship with Cuba
before the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the massive influx of
Cuban migrants after 1960. She focuses on locally produced radio
and television shows, particular television events, and characters
that became popular media icons-from the performer Ramon Rivero's
use of blackface and "black" voice in the 1940s and 1950s, to the
battle between black actors and television industry officials over
racism in the 1970s, to the creation, in the 1990s, of the first
Puerto Rican situation comedy featuring a black family. As the
twentieth century drew to a close, multinational corporations had
purchased all Puerto Rican stations and threatened to wipe out
locally produced programs. Tuning Out Blackness brings to the
forefront the marginalization of nonwhite citizens in Puerto Rico's
media culture and raises important questions about the significance
of local sites of television production.
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