Arthur D Soto-Vásquez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 194920 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arthur D Soto-Vásquez |
| NOMBRES | Arthur D |
| APELLIDO | Soto-Vásquez |
| FIRMA | SOTO-VÁSQUEZ A D |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas A&M International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7240-2242 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Border and Immigration as Etiological Myth in U.S. Right-Wing Politics
Borders, immigration, and immigrants have been central to right-wing populist movements since the Great Recession. This paper analyzes three events from the 2024 U.S. election cycle: the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the second night of the Republican National Convention, and the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Using an etiological analysis of communication, the study examines how causal argum…
La Tóxica
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent among Latinx college students. Gender role stereotypes influence the ways IPV is perceived and sometimes tolerated within the Latinx culture. In addition, social media can shape the messages individuals receive about what is healthy and unhealthy in romantic relationships. La tóxica (the toxic woman) is a Latinx gender stereotype often used to describe controlling and demanding women. However, as the t…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Ambiguous Identification and “Latinx”
This study takes up the relationship between young Mexican Americans living on the U.S–Mexico border and the term “Latinx” through their reception of Latinx-related content on Instagram. Using qualitative interviews where four Instagram pages (@wearemitu, @perolike, @mexicansproblemas, & @mijacultura) were used as stimuli for conversation, we found most participants engaged in complementary inclusivity with the label “Latinx.” This means that whi…
The Cultural Influence of Familismo in Prompting Vaccination Against Covid-19 Among U.S. Latina/o/x Border Residents
as a relevant cultural construct that adds a U.S. Latina/o/x perspective to the Health Belief Model. Employing a qualitative lens, we use in-depth semi-structured focus groups and interviews with participants living, working, and attending school in a mid-size city on the U.S./Mexico border on the decision to take the COVID-19 vaccine. We find that, for many members of these communities, getting vaccinated is seen as a way to protect not only one…
Laboratory of reaction
Drawing on political and legislative analysis, the paper situates SB 17 within a strategic right-wing backlash to post-2020 social justice movements, guided by conservative think tanks like the Claremont and Manhattan Institutes. The analysis explores the bill's origins, ideological underpinnings, and implementation across Texas public university systems, detailing how over-compliance and institutional self-censorship have chilled academic freedo…
Like, subscribe, profit? Personal finance influencers on YouTube under neoliberalism
Invoking ethnic identity in the service of right-wing rhetoric
Growing identification by U.S. Latines with the Republican Party has been of interest since the 2020 presidential election, especially in South Texas. This article presents a rhetorical criticism of three Republican Latina candidates for Congress in the 2022 midterms. Utilizing Latine rhetorical criticism of their campaign ads, we identify the strategic deployment of conservative ethnic identity that disavows racialized identity through anti-immi…
Migrant World Making
Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “ Anything for Selena ”
Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and genres that can be created and developed for diverse and niche audiences. Using an inductive approach, we explore the connections and insights the podcast Anything for Selena offers about parasociality, celebrity grieving, and diasporic Latina/o/x identity, in the context of Selena as a brand. Themes follow acts of performing culture, posthumous branding, aspirational identity, and parasocial grieving acr…
Haciendo Espejos
This study analyzes the outcomes of a service-learning course where Latinas in a higher education setting created a 16-page children’s book for at-risk students as part of their education coursework in a regional public Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). There is a well-documented lack of Latina/o/x representation in children’s literature, which has impacts on literacy gaps and student confidence, but little research on the potential of creating…
Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media
YouTube and TikTok as Platforms for Learning about Others
Purpose Due to existing Disney fandom and the increased popularity of online travel documentation, there is an opportunity to study brand internationalization, online video culture, and fandom. There are questions of whether video based social media allows for more humane representations of cultural others and to what extent the topic of content shapes representation. Methodology In this study, an inductive qualitative method is applied to top Yo…
Consumption, identity, and surveillance during Covid-19 as a crisis of pleasure
The global COVID-19 pandemic was the latest instance of a crisis of pleasure. Crises of pleasure are periodic eruptions of discontent when consumption is disrupted by external forces. In this case, the pandemic also disrupted expressions of identity on social media, where identity is made legible through conspicuous consumption on social media in the early 2020s. Drawing from six qualitative focus group interviews conducted in the summer of 2020,…
Just hanging with my friends”
There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listene…
Not a Monolith!” Media Narratives of the Latina/o/x Vote after the 2020 U.S. Election
This study assesses how the “not a monolith” narrative in U.S. journalism after the 2020 presidential election serves to further shape the Latina/o/x electorate into a politically marketable category. This study employs a qualitative content analysis of 159 media texts produced in the first two weeks after Election Day. We find that the contradictions inherent in the construction of Latina/o/x voters—such as class, racial, and regional difference…
El Cabal, Vacunas, y Donald Trump
The January 6 Capitol insurrection highlighted the central role conspiracy and disinformation play in motivating political violence among the right wing in the United States. In this article, the spread of Spanish-language disinformation by right-wing media in the United States is explored from a cultural and intersectional perspective. We analyze the mythological and dramatic narratives in content from a Spanish-language conspiracy website poste…
Aesthetics of Otherness
This article examines the representation of the migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics of otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics of otherness is the result of the interaction between platform users' selections and platform affordances that creates a gap between the marginalized other and the user. Based on a qualitative content analysis of posts with the hashtags #caravanamigrante and #migrantcaravan, this rese…
Covid-19
This study shows how research on misinformation correction on social media must be contextualized by an understanding of race, class, and local culture. Using an inductive analysis of focus group data, we find that correction of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on the US/Mexico border is multilayered between the family and community institutions. It is also structured by information poverty, local Latinx border practices, and cultural c…
Moving with Fitbit
In this article I use an auto-ethnographic account of personal Fitbit use to develop the interrelated concepts of body narratives and fit subjectivities. Body narratives are data-informed personal rationalizations we make about the state of our bodies. For example, we can use personal Fitbit data to form a post hoc rationalization to explain aches and pains from being sedentary the day before. The same goes for increased energy from a longer-than…
Not a Monolith!” Media Narratives of the Latina/o/x Vote after the 2020 U.S. Election
This study assesses how the “not a monolith” narrative in U.S. journalism after the 2020 presidential election serves to further shape the Latina/o/x electorate into a politically marketable category. This study employs a qualitative content analysis of 159 media texts produced in the first two weeks after Election Day. We find that the contradictions inherent in the construction of Latina/o/x voters—such as class, racial, and regional difference…
Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media
Just hanging with my friends”
There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listene…
El Cabal, Vacunas, y Donald Trump
The January 6 Capitol insurrection highlighted the central role conspiracy and disinformation play in motivating political violence among the right wing in the United States. In this article, the spread of Spanish-language disinformation by right-wing media in the United States is explored from a cultural and intersectional perspective. We analyze the mythological and dramatic narratives in content from a Spanish-language conspiracy website poste…
Invoking ethnic identity in the service of right-wing rhetoric
Growing identification by U.S. Latines with the Republican Party has been of interest since the 2020 presidential election, especially in South Texas. This article presents a rhetorical criticism of three Republican Latina candidates for Congress in the 2022 midterms. Utilizing Latine rhetorical criticism of their campaign ads, we identify the strategic deployment of conservative ethnic identity that disavows racialized identity through anti-immi…
Aesthetics of Otherness
This article examines the representation of the migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics of otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics of otherness is the result of the interaction between platform users' selections and platform affordances that creates a gap between the marginalized other and the user. Based on a qualitative content analysis of posts with the hashtags #caravanamigrante and #migrantcaravan, this rese…
Covid-19
This study shows how research on misinformation correction on social media must be contextualized by an understanding of race, class, and local culture. Using an inductive analysis of focus group data, we find that correction of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on the US/Mexico border is multilayered between the family and community institutions. It is also structured by information poverty, local Latinx border practices, and cultural c…
Moving with Fitbit
In this article I use an auto-ethnographic account of personal Fitbit use to develop the interrelated concepts of body narratives and fit subjectivities. Body narratives are data-informed personal rationalizations we make about the state of our bodies. For example, we can use personal Fitbit data to form a post hoc rationalization to explain aches and pains from being sedentary the day before. The same goes for increased energy from a longer-than…
YouTube and TikTok as Platforms for Learning about Others
Purpose Due to existing Disney fandom and the increased popularity of online travel documentation, there is an opportunity to study brand internationalization, online video culture, and fandom. There are questions of whether video based social media allows for more humane representations of cultural others and to what extent the topic of content shapes representation. Methodology In this study, an inductive qualitative method is applied to top Yo…
Consumption, identity, and surveillance during Covid-19 as a crisis of pleasure
The global COVID-19 pandemic was the latest instance of a crisis of pleasure. Crises of pleasure are periodic eruptions of discontent when consumption is disrupted by external forces. In this case, the pandemic also disrupted expressions of identity on social media, where identity is made legible through conspicuous consumption on social media in the early 2020s. Drawing from six qualitative focus group interviews conducted in the summer of 2020,…
Just hanging with my friends”
There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listene…
Not a Monolith!” Media Narratives of the Latina/o/x Vote after the 2020 U.S. Election
This study assesses how the “not a monolith” narrative in U.S. journalism after the 2020 presidential election serves to further shape the Latina/o/x electorate into a politically marketable category. This study employs a qualitative content analysis of 159 media texts produced in the first two weeks after Election Day. We find that the contradictions inherent in the construction of Latina/o/x voters—such as class, racial, and regional difference…
El Cabal, Vacunas, y Donald Trump
The January 6 Capitol insurrection highlighted the central role conspiracy and disinformation play in motivating political violence among the right wing in the United States. In this article, the spread of Spanish-language disinformation by right-wing media in the United States is explored from a cultural and intersectional perspective. We analyze the mythological and dramatic narratives in content from a Spanish-language conspiracy website poste…
Aesthetics of Otherness
This article examines the representation of the migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics of otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics of otherness is the result of the interaction between platform users' selections and platform affordances that creates a gap between the marginalized other and the user. Based on a qualitative content analysis of posts with the hashtags #caravanamigrante and #migrantcaravan, this rese…
Migrant World Making
Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “ Anything for Selena ”
Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and genres that can be created and developed for diverse and niche audiences. Using an inductive approach, we explore the connections and insights the podcast Anything for Selena offers about parasociality, celebrity grieving, and diasporic Latina/o/x identity, in the context of Selena as a brand. Themes follow acts of performing culture, posthumous branding, aspirational identity, and parasocial grieving acr…
Haciendo Espejos
This study analyzes the outcomes of a service-learning course where Latinas in a higher education setting created a 16-page children’s book for at-risk students as part of their education coursework in a regional public Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). There is a well-documented lack of Latina/o/x representation in children’s literature, which has impacts on literacy gaps and student confidence, but little research on the potential of creating…
Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media
Invoking ethnic identity in the service of right-wing rhetoric
Growing identification by U.S. Latines with the Republican Party has been of interest since the 2020 presidential election, especially in South Texas. This article presents a rhetorical criticism of three Republican Latina candidates for Congress in the 2022 midterms. Utilizing Latine rhetorical criticism of their campaign ads, we identify the strategic deployment of conservative ethnic identity that disavows racialized identity through anti-immi…
Ambiguous Identification and “Latinx”
This study takes up the relationship between young Mexican Americans living on the U.S–Mexico border and the term “Latinx” through their reception of Latinx-related content on Instagram. Using qualitative interviews where four Instagram pages (@wearemitu, @perolike, @mexicansproblemas, & @mijacultura) were used as stimuli for conversation, we found most participants engaged in complementary inclusivity with the label “Latinx.” This means that whi…
The Cultural Influence of Familismo in Prompting Vaccination Against Covid-19 Among U.S. Latina/o/x Border Residents
as a relevant cultural construct that adds a U.S. Latina/o/x perspective to the Health Belief Model. Employing a qualitative lens, we use in-depth semi-structured focus groups and interviews with participants living, working, and attending school in a mid-size city on the U.S./Mexico border on the decision to take the COVID-19 vaccine. We find that, for many members of these communities, getting vaccinated is seen as a way to protect not only one…
Laboratory of reaction
Drawing on political and legislative analysis, the paper situates SB 17 within a strategic right-wing backlash to post-2020 social justice movements, guided by conservative think tanks like the Claremont and Manhattan Institutes. The analysis explores the bill's origins, ideological underpinnings, and implementation across Texas public university systems, detailing how over-compliance and institutional self-censorship have chilled academic freedo…
Like, subscribe, profit? Personal finance influencers on YouTube under neoliberalism
Border and Immigration as Etiological Myth in U.S. Right-Wing Politics
Borders, immigration, and immigrants have been central to right-wing populist movements since the Great Recession. This paper analyzes three events from the 2024 U.S. election cycle: the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the second night of the Republican National Convention, and the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Using an etiological analysis of communication, the study examines how causal argum…
La Tóxica
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent among Latinx college students. Gender role stereotypes influence the ways IPV is perceived and sometimes tolerated within the Latinx culture. In addition, social media can shape the messages individuals receive about what is healthy and unhealthy in romantic relationships. La tóxica (the toxic woman) is a Latinx gender stereotype often used to describe controlling and demanding women. However, as the t…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Social media (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Social Media and Politics (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)