Joseph Straubhaar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 354588 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joseph Straubhaar |
| NOMBRES | Joseph |
| APELLIDO | Straubhaar |
| FIRMA | STRAUBHAAR J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8285-1498 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
‘Yo soy la única burra’ [I’m the only dumb one]. Not Anymore. An Intersectional Approach to Digital Inclusion
This paper applies intersectionality theory to analyze the challenges and successes of vulnerable communities in developing techno-capital—a form of cultural capital that influences individuals’ technology adoption and usage. Through ethnographic methods, such as participant observations and interviews among a group of working-class US Latinas in central Texas, this work aims to explore why digital inclusion programs should go beyond the first an…
Beyond media imperialism
This article reviews the intellectual journey that led me to study the development of television in Brazil. It discusses how I came to study how media were developing in countries of the global South as part of a Ph.D. in International Relations. It led me to get particularly interested in Brazil, particularly when I discovered that the US State Department was willing to train me in Portuguese and send me there for three years. It discusses the g…
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil
The popular encrypted messaging and chat app WhatsApp played a key role in the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. The present study builds on this knowledge and showcases how the app continued to be used in a governmental operation spreading false and misleading information popularly known in Brazil as the Office of Hatred (OOH). By harnessing in-depth expert interviews with documentarians of the office's daily operations-res…
From Telenovelas to Netflix
Streaming Television, Netflix, and Transverse Transnationalism
Testemunhos ibéricos e norte-americanos
Reunião de depoimentos em homenagem ao pesquisador Jesús Martín-Barbero, realizados por Isabel Ferin Cunha, Margarita Ledo Andión, Manuel Pinto e Joseph Straubhaar
Global perspectives on digital inequalities and solutions to them
In this special issue of First Monday, Global perspectives on digital inequalities and solutions to them we bring together scholars from five continents to offer a vista of the field of digital inequalities at the close of the 25th anniversary of the “digital divide.” We have chosen First Monday to publish our scholarship thanks to the foundational work in open access publishing by Edward J. Valauskas, Chief Editor and Founder. First Monday’s app…
Títulos originais e licenciados com exclusividade no catálogo brasileiro da Netflix
O objetivo do trabalho é mapear os países produtores de títulos originais e exclusivos do catálogo brasileiro da Netflix e verificar qual a participação da América Latina nesta constituição. Os resultados apontam para o investimento da Netflix na diversificação dos países produtores, apesar de ainda não ser suficiente para conter uma tendência à manutenção da dependência cultural da América Latina em relação ao avanço de conteúdos dos Estados Uni…
Techno-capital
The increasing presence of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) across various fields of our lives has elevated the significance of individuals’ capability to utilize these ICTs substantially. Although scholars have underscored the importance of understanding such capabilities in terms of skills that are multidimensional, few empirical investigations are connected to sound theoretical backgrounds. Analyzing a survey administ…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Representações Da Deficiência Física Na Telenovela, Uma Análise Interdisciplinar
O livro discute as representações da deficiência física adquirida, com ênfase nas vivências da intimidade da mulher. Tendo como objeto empírico a telenovela Viver a Vida, cuja narrativa abordou a temática por meio da personagem Luciana, apresenta uma análise interdisciplinar e interseccional que envolve questões como o cuidado, o corpo e a sexualidade. Para isso, utiliza procedimentos metodológicos da Etnografia de tela, fundamentados por um ampl…
Fall-Behind Parents? The Influential Factors on Digital Parenting Self-Efficacy in Disadvantaged Communities
As the Internet penetration in the United States increases, many digital divide researchers have delved into the parent-child dynamics regarding family digital access and use. However, little attention has been paid to digital parenting in terms of monitoring, guiding, and regulating children's digital lives, especially in the context of disadvantaged communities. As an initial step to fill the critical gaps in related literature, this study cast…
Changing Class Formations and Changing Television Viewing
Cette recherche analyse la rapidité avec laquelle les structures de classe ont participé au changement des pratiques de consommation de la télévision en Amérique Latine lors de cette dernière décennie. L’abonnement au câble ou télévision payante s’est fortement développé au Brésil et au Mexique ces 6 à 7 dernières années et les effets de la croissance de la classe moyenne lors des 10 à 15 dernières années se révèlent. La hausse des abonnements au…
Second Screening as Convergence in Brazil and the United States
Second screening is widespread worldwide, particularly in younger populations. We analyze a survey of college students in Brazil and the United States to compare second screening frequency, types, platforms, and motivations between the two countries. Despite lower Internet penetration, Brazilians second screen significantly more than Americans, a result of the country’s tradition of interacting with producers of television. In both countries, tho…
Digital Inequality on the US-Mexico Border
The purpose of the present study is to determine the cultural and social barriers that are preventing Laredoans from accessing the digital world. This multigenerational study examines how three generations within 16 families relate culturally and socially to technology. Three members from the same family were invited to voluntarily participate in the study, with a total of 48 in-depth, face-to-face interviews being conducted. The present study id…
The construction of a transnational Lusophone media space
This piece examines the historical construction of a Lusophone cultural-linguistic media space and market that spans portions of Europe, Africa, and South America. Beginning with the Portuguese colonization of Brazil and Lusophone Africa in the 17th century and continuing to the contemporary moment, our discussion examines how a combination of political, ideological, and economic patterns created linkages between Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-…
When the marginalized enter the national spotlight
How are marginalized peoples and places framed in their dominant national media? Framing theory applied through a comparative narrative analysis of 313 news articles, 291 photos and 1051 telenovela scenes allowed Brazilian media representations of a marginalized people, favelados, and marginalized, contested spaces, favelas, to be juxtapositioned. ‘Organizing principles’ communicated through media reports and stories of these marginalized groups …
Choosing National TV
This chapter explores the aspects of cultural capital that are most relevant to audience choices about global, cultural-linguistic regional and national television, as well as their ability to make sense of what they watch from such different sources. It also extends beyond language to culture, that the cultural capital required for wanting to watch many kinds of imported programs also tends to be concentrated in middle and upper classes. It furt…
Gendered Space
Community technology centers and libraries have been crucial components of public policy initiatives to reduce the digital divide. Using theories of structuration and the social construction of technology, this paper examines the gender dynamics of the digital divide at public access points in Austin, TX over 10 years. Using extensive participant observations, we found male users outnumber female users in public access Internet usage, even accoun…
Why Do I Feel I Don’t Belong to the Brazil on TV
Telenovelas have been considered the predominant popular genre on television, the most widely available and popular national medium, in Brazil, for more than 30 years (Straubhaar, 1982). However, we argue in this article that although telenovelas do indeed have this remarkable penetration and popularity in Brazil, their reception is mediated by audience class, geographical location, race, and issues with media content. Many in the audience feel d…
Sedimented, hybrid and multiple? The new cultural geography of identities
O artigo explora a sedimentação de múltiplas camadas de uso das mídias e identida- des como elementos-chave da globalização geográfca cultural em transição. O texto examina a relação entre processos de hibridização de identidade e cultura no decorrer do tempo e a sedimentação ou acúmulo, manutenção e defesa de identidades com múltiplos níveis
Brokering new technologies
This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online…
Chapter 9. Communities, Cultural Capital, and Digital Inclusion
Inequity in the Technopolis
Generational Shifts in Language Use Among US Latinos
The role of language and linguistic assimilation among Latinos has a direct impact on both education and occupation in terms of social mobility. The relationship can be examined with a generational context as language usage changes from first generation immigrants to third generation immigrants. The specific question being addressed herein is whether language or ethnicity had more impact on Latinos’ mobility in terms of educational achievement an…
Multiple Proximities between Television Genres and Audiences
How can a Mexican telenovela be more attractive to viewers in Brazil than a nationally produced telenovela? This seems to be the question posed by the increasing transnational flow of cultural products. Most of the data indicate that viewers prefer locally produced programs. Nevertheless, some of the transnational success of Latin American telenovelas abroad seems to question this truism. This article argues that audience preferences are formed w…
Brokering new technologies
This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online…
The impact of rural broadband development
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Gendered Space
Community technology centers and libraries have been crucial components of public policy initiatives to reduce the digital divide. Using theories of structuration and the social construction of technology, this paper examines the gender dynamics of the digital divide at public access points in Austin, TX over 10 years. Using extensive participant observations, we found male users outnumber female users in public access Internet usage, even accoun…
Television and Video in the Transition from Military to Civilian Rule in Brazil
Until now, discussions of theories of media and society or media and the state in the North American literature have been limited. The four theories of the press advanced by Fred Siebert, Wilbur Schramm, and Theodore Peterson cover the main approaches of Western liberal society, the libertarian and social responsibility models, and some aspects of the Eastern bloc in the "totalitarian" model. Under the heading of "authoritarian," however, a numbe…
Títulos originais e licenciados com exclusividade no catálogo brasileiro da Netflix
O objetivo do trabalho é mapear os países produtores de títulos originais e exclusivos do catálogo brasileiro da Netflix e verificar qual a participação da América Latina nesta constituição. Os resultados apontam para o investimento da Netflix na diversificação dos países produtores, apesar de ainda não ser suficiente para conter uma tendência à manutenção da dependência cultural da América Latina em relação ao avanço de conteúdos dos Estados Uni…
Why Do I Feel I Don’t Belong to the Brazil on TV
Telenovelas have been considered the predominant popular genre on television, the most widely available and popular national medium, in Brazil, for more than 30 years (Straubhaar, 1982). However, we argue in this article that although telenovelas do indeed have this remarkable penetration and popularity in Brazil, their reception is mediated by audience class, geographical location, race, and issues with media content. Many in the audience feel d…
Fall-Behind Parents? The Influential Factors on Digital Parenting Self-Efficacy in Disadvantaged Communities
As the Internet penetration in the United States increases, many digital divide researchers have delved into the parent-child dynamics regarding family digital access and use. However, little attention has been paid to digital parenting in terms of monitoring, guiding, and regulating children's digital lives, especially in the context of disadvantaged communities. As an initial step to fill the critical gaps in related literature, this study cast…
When the marginalized enter the national spotlight
How are marginalized peoples and places framed in their dominant national media? Framing theory applied through a comparative narrative analysis of 313 news articles, 291 photos and 1051 telenovela scenes allowed Brazilian media representations of a marginalized people, favelados, and marginalized, contested spaces, favelas, to be juxtapositioned. ‘Organizing principles’ communicated through media reports and stories of these marginalized groups …
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil
The popular encrypted messaging and chat app WhatsApp played a key role in the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. The present study builds on this knowledge and showcases how the app continued to be used in a governmental operation spreading false and misleading information popularly known in Brazil as the Office of Hatred (OOH). By harnessing in-depth expert interviews with documentarians of the office's daily operations-res…
Techno-capital
The increasing presence of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) across various fields of our lives has elevated the significance of individuals’ capability to utilize these ICTs substantially. Although scholars have underscored the importance of understanding such capabilities in terms of skills that are multidimensional, few empirical investigations are connected to sound theoretical backgrounds. Analyzing a survey administ…
Second Screening as Convergence in Brazil and the United States
Second screening is widespread worldwide, particularly in younger populations. We analyze a survey of college students in Brazil and the United States to compare second screening frequency, types, platforms, and motivations between the two countries. Despite lower Internet penetration, Brazilians second screen significantly more than Americans, a result of the country’s tradition of interacting with producers of television. In both countries, tho…
Digital Inequality on the US-Mexico Border
The purpose of the present study is to determine the cultural and social barriers that are preventing Laredoans from accessing the digital world. This multigenerational study examines how three generations within 16 families relate culturally and socially to technology. Three members from the same family were invited to voluntarily participate in the study, with a total of 48 in-depth, face-to-face interviews being conducted. The present study id…
Sedimented, hybrid and multiple? The new cultural geography of identities
O artigo explora a sedimentação de múltiplas camadas de uso das mídias e identida- des como elementos-chave da globalização geográfca cultural em transição. O texto examina a relação entre processos de hibridização de identidade e cultura no decorrer do tempo e a sedimentação ou acúmulo, manutenção e defesa de identidades com múltiplos níveis
Television and Video in the Transition from Military to Civilian Rule in Brazil
Until now, discussions of theories of media and society or media and the state in the North American literature have been limited. The four theories of the press advanced by Fred Siebert, Wilbur Schramm, and Theodore Peterson cover the main approaches of Western liberal society, the libertarian and social responsibility models, and some aspects of the Eastern bloc in the "totalitarian" model. Under the heading of "authoritarian," however, a numbe…
Class, Genre, and the Regionalization of Television Programming in the Dominican Republic
Joseph D. Straubhaar, Gloria M. Viscasillas; Class, Genre, and the Regionalization of Television Programming in the Dominican Republic, Journal of Communic
Beyond media imperialism
This paper analyzes some of the controversies in the literature on media imperialism by drawing on two revised concepts: the idea of assymetrical interdependence as a more precise and complex way to frame the imperialism issues, and the idea of audiences actively searching for cultural proximity in cultural goods, as a way to reincorporate the role of audiences in the media imperialism debate. The focus is on limits imposed by dependence, growth …
Multiple Proximities between Television Genres and Audiences
How can a Mexican telenovela be more attractive to viewers in Brazil than a nationally produced telenovela? This seems to be the question posed by the increasing transnational flow of cultural products. Most of the data indicate that viewers prefer locally produced programs. Nevertheless, some of the transnational success of Latin American telenovelas abroad seems to question this truism. This article argues that audience preferences are formed w…
Broadcast Research in the Americas
Canada, Latin America, and the United States have assumed great international significance in the past few decades as borders wither, goods and people move more freely around the globe, and finance takes on a more integrated and powerful role in global marketplaces. Trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), transnational production ventures such as those springing up in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Miami, and heavily…
Closing the rural broadband gap
World Television
1. A Multilayered World of Television: An Overview Central Issues Globalization and Culture Complexity, Structuration, and Cultural Agents Structural and Cultural Process Frameworks for World Television Roles and Impacts of Technology Asymmetrical Interdependence and Asymmetrical Cultural Interpenetration: A Proposed Model Imported TV Versus Local and National: Producers Localize, Glocalize, and Hybridize Cultural Identification and Proximity Cul…
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish
"Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?" This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari's reaction when she learned that Drescher's character on the television sitcom The Nanny was meant to be a portrayal of a stereotypical Jewish-American princess. Ferrari had only seen the Italian version of the show, in which the protagonist was dubbed into an exotic, eccentric Italian-American nanny. Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? explores this "ventriloquism" as not on…
The impact of rural broadband development
Generational Shifts in Language Use Among US Latinos
The role of language and linguistic assimilation among Latinos has a direct impact on both education and occupation in terms of social mobility. The relationship can be examined with a generational context as language usage changes from first generation immigrants to third generation immigrants. The specific question being addressed herein is whether language or ethnicity had more impact on Latinos’ mobility in terms of educational achievement an…
Chapter 9. Communities, Cultural Capital, and Digital Inclusion
Inequity in the Technopolis
Sedimented, hybrid and multiple? The new cultural geography of identities
O artigo explora a sedimentação de múltiplas camadas de uso das mídias e identida- des como elementos-chave da globalização geográfca cultural em transição. O texto examina a relação entre processos de hibridização de identidade e cultura no decorrer do tempo e a sedimentação ou acúmulo, manutenção e defesa de identidades com múltiplos níveis
Brokering new technologies
This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online…
Choosing National TV
This chapter explores the aspects of cultural capital that are most relevant to audience choices about global, cultural-linguistic regional and national television, as well as their ability to make sense of what they watch from such different sources. It also extends beyond language to culture, that the cultural capital required for wanting to watch many kinds of imported programs also tends to be concentrated in middle and upper classes. It furt…
Gendered Space
Community technology centers and libraries have been crucial components of public policy initiatives to reduce the digital divide. Using theories of structuration and the social construction of technology, this paper examines the gender dynamics of the digital divide at public access points in Austin, TX over 10 years. Using extensive participant observations, we found male users outnumber female users in public access Internet usage, even accoun…
Why Do I Feel I Don’t Belong to the Brazil on TV
Telenovelas have been considered the predominant popular genre on television, the most widely available and popular national medium, in Brazil, for more than 30 years (Straubhaar, 1982). However, we argue in this article that although telenovelas do indeed have this remarkable penetration and popularity in Brazil, their reception is mediated by audience class, geographical location, race, and issues with media content. Many in the audience feel d…
When the marginalized enter the national spotlight
How are marginalized peoples and places framed in their dominant national media? Framing theory applied through a comparative narrative analysis of 313 news articles, 291 photos and 1051 telenovela scenes allowed Brazilian media representations of a marginalized people, favelados, and marginalized, contested spaces, favelas, to be juxtapositioned. ‘Organizing principles’ communicated through media reports and stories of these marginalized groups …
The construction of a transnational Lusophone media space
This piece examines the historical construction of a Lusophone cultural-linguistic media space and market that spans portions of Europe, Africa, and South America. Beginning with the Portuguese colonization of Brazil and Lusophone Africa in the 17th century and continuing to the contemporary moment, our discussion examines how a combination of political, ideological, and economic patterns created linkages between Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-…
Changing Class Formations and Changing Television Viewing
Cette recherche analyse la rapidité avec laquelle les structures de classe ont participé au changement des pratiques de consommation de la télévision en Amérique Latine lors de cette dernière décennie. L’abonnement au câble ou télévision payante s’est fortement développé au Brésil et au Mexique ces 6 à 7 dernières années et les effets de la croissance de la classe moyenne lors des 10 à 15 dernières années se révèlent. La hausse des abonnements au…
Second Screening as Convergence in Brazil and the United States
Second screening is widespread worldwide, particularly in younger populations. We analyze a survey of college students in Brazil and the United States to compare second screening frequency, types, platforms, and motivations between the two countries. Despite lower Internet penetration, Brazilians second screen significantly more than Americans, a result of the country’s tradition of interacting with producers of television. In both countries, tho…
Digital Inequality on the US-Mexico Border
The purpose of the present study is to determine the cultural and social barriers that are preventing Laredoans from accessing the digital world. This multigenerational study examines how three generations within 16 families relate culturally and socially to technology. Three members from the same family were invited to voluntarily participate in the study, with a total of 48 in-depth, face-to-face interviews being conducted. The present study id…
Representações Da Deficiência Física Na Telenovela, Uma Análise Interdisciplinar
O livro discute as representações da deficiência física adquirida, com ênfase nas vivências da intimidade da mulher. Tendo como objeto empírico a telenovela Viver a Vida, cuja narrativa abordou a temática por meio da personagem Luciana, apresenta uma análise interdisciplinar e interseccional que envolve questões como o cuidado, o corpo e a sexualidade. Para isso, utiliza procedimentos metodológicos da Etnografia de tela, fundamentados por um ampl…
Fall-Behind Parents? The Influential Factors on Digital Parenting Self-Efficacy in Disadvantaged Communities
As the Internet penetration in the United States increases, many digital divide researchers have delved into the parent-child dynamics regarding family digital access and use. However, little attention has been paid to digital parenting in terms of monitoring, guiding, and regulating children's digital lives, especially in the context of disadvantaged communities. As an initial step to fill the critical gaps in related literature, this study cast…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
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