Omar Rincón
Biographic Data
| ID | 135490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omar Rincón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omar |
| FAMILY NAME | Rincón |
| SIGNATURE | RINCÓN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de los Andes |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8690-2253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Martín-Barbero’s style
In Latin America, Jesús Martín-Barbero is a pop star and a beloved scholar with thousands of followers captured by his original way of thinking, imagining, and researching the relations between communication, culture, and politics. This essay explains five characteristics of Martín-Barbero’s style: (i) his reflections about expressions of popular and mass culture such as music, telenovelas, fairs, and celebrations; (ii) his gaze at and from local…
From mass popular to bastardized popular
Based on the Martin-Barberian concept of mass popular and without losing his contribution, a conceptual re-invention is suggested to report on the meaning of entertainment, coolture and celebrity citizenship that define mainstream pop in the XXI century. In this re-invention, it is suggested that popular is defined from the bastardization of mixing together the pop, the popular, the territorial and the ancestral
Testemunhos latino-americanos em memória de Jesús Martín-Barbero
Reunião de depoimentos em homenagem ao pesquisador Jesús Martín-Barbero, realizados por Raúl Fuentes Navarro, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Carlos A. Scolari, Omar Rincón e Néstor García Canclini
Violencia, memoria y sociedad: Debates y agendas en la Colombia actual
Esta colega [...] me relata la historia de Julia, una mujer indígena que vino desplazada de Pueblo Nuevo hace varios años. En nuestra conversación me describe uno de los escenarios humanos posiblemente más perturbadores que uno pueda imaginar; una de esas historias que nunca emergen en los zócalos y zafarranchos de la ilustre academia, sus cocteles nocturnos y la bufonería internacional y de sus consultores. Una mujer casada, con dos hijos: Paula…
La valentía del silencio, la cobardía del bullicio
Ante esta COSA que nos pasó y se quedó a vivir con nosotros. Lo más bello, los más valiente, lo más sincero hubiese sido callarnos, habitar el silencio, encontrarnos en la escucha. Pero fuimos derrotados por el bullicio. Y ese bullicio hizo que los progres nos sintamos payasos útiles del sistema, esa cobardía del decir nos llevó a decir lo obvio. Este es un testimonio de las obviedades, las mías, que son las únicas de las que puedo hacerme cargo
Media and Communications
Developments in digital technologies over the last 30 years have expanded massively human beings' capacity to communicate across time and space (Section 13.1).Media infrastructures have simultaneously acquired huge complexity.By "media" we mean technologies for the production, dissemination, and reception of communication, but also the contents distributed through those technologies and the institutions associated with their production, dissemina…
Mutações bastardas da comunicação
The discourses and agendas of the twentieth century are no longer useful in explaining the changes of our time. It is difficult to explain this zombie society – of living dead people in consumption, far from politics and humanism; with media disconnected from the people and converted into political actors; a capitalism that rewards social injustice and cynicism; a system of justice that is increasingly right-wing and follows the god of capital. F…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
De celebrities, pop y premodernos: Hacia una democracia zombie
Este ensayo parte de los capitales culturales de los ciudadanos actuales para desde ahí comprender y hacer sentido de la política en nuestros tiempos. Se afirma la existencia de tres tipos de ciudadanos: críticos y cínicos que se sienten contraculturales en el consumo, tienen a las redes como templos, creen y descreen de la política; ciudadanos premodernos que ajustan sus afectos a sus creencias y convierten su bronca en batalla moral; ciudadanos…
Periodismo mutante y bastardo
The 20th century ended in 2016. Fidel Castro died in politics. And the journalism could not tell the reality. The great ruin of journalism is that it has stopped narrating democracy, making sense of our times, telling the realities of ordinary people, controlling power. Thus, the journalistic office is an endangered species in the mainstream media that have decided to become political actors that lobby for business interests and have turned infor…
How Can We Tell the Story of the Colombian War: Bastardized Narratives and Citizen Celebrities
This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12, 2009, Luis Arango was murdered in the Colombian region known as Magdalena Medio. Arango was a fisherman and a leader of local and regional fishing comm…
Audiovisuality of the mist: Video-Cliffs vs Video-Clips
Transparency is the value of our time: Political transparency as a democratic principle. Visual transparency on the digital. Body transparency as aesthetics of seduction. This essay-creation claims that, from and on audiovisual, the visual transparency is an explicit way to conceal, hide, losing the polysemy of images. And proposes the ambiguous of the visible, the dirty look, the bastard identities as a creative tactic to reach narrative, aesthe…
Los cuentos mediáticos del miedo (Investigación) = Media ́s tales of fear
La inseguridad ciudadana es un buen cuento mediático porque tiene historias, produce un alto impacto emocional y genera habla en la vida cotidiana de la gente. El trabajo periodístico sobre el crimen, el delito y la inseguridad produce miedos ciudadanos e invita a consumir más seguridad. En este texto se presenta, desde una perspectiva comunicativa, dos estudios que dan cuenta de las representaciones y los discursos de la inseguridad ciudadana en…
El pueblo es Dios
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Living in a narco.culture: An essay on the narco -culture and telenovela as ways of becoming modern
Não é necessário ser traficante de drogas para viver seus valores e desfrutar de sua mentalidade. Este ensaio conta a história por trás da narco.cultura (ou seja, a cultura do tráfico de drogas) ou como os simbolismos do narcotráfico invadiram a sociedade latino-americana: e que se trata da nossa melhor forma de integração regional em termos de negócios, estética, ética, experiência de ascensão social
Para entenderlos hay que crearlos: Jóvenes, cultura y comunicación
No hay nada más fascinante y aterrador a la vez que los jóvenes. Atraen y producen miedo porque cuando los queremos comprender/explicar, siempre están en otra parte. Seducen por su magia de ser inaprensibles. Y es que los jóvenes son el valor máximo del mercado: todos debemos/queremos/deseamos ser jóvenes. Y eso se puede lograr en el consumo masivo/mediático/cultural. Pero también son el miedo público más ético: los jóvenes han devenido masas sin…
New Television Narratives: Entertainment, Telling, Citizenship, Experimental
Broadcasting and industrial television is a trip back to the past, to a space devoid of meaning, and to the boredom resulting from its moral conservatism, lack of creativity, thought and entertainment. But television’s monopoly over public screening is over; now, anyone can be a producer, an audiovisual narrator with his or her own screen. New television and other screens are daring to change the way stories are told: a more subjective, testimoni…
No more audiences, we all become producers
We can ́t only be consumers, we must be citizens. This essay argues how audiences should become producers of messages that represent a culture of resistance, from its narrative and aesthetics needs, in order to find a place of sense in a world of screens. Hence, new audiences stop being just consumers to get the status of producers of their own screens. This is a contemporary, political, cultural, technological and communicative possibility. Toda…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
How Can We Tell the Story of the Colombian War: Bastardized Narratives and Citizen Celebrities
This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12, 2009, Luis Arango was murdered in the Colombian region known as Magdalena Medio. Arango was a fisherman and a leader of local and regional fishing comm…
New Television Narratives: Entertainment, Telling, Citizenship, Experimental
Broadcasting and industrial television is a trip back to the past, to a space devoid of meaning, and to the boredom resulting from its moral conservatism, lack of creativity, thought and entertainment. But television’s monopoly over public screening is over; now, anyone can be a producer, an audiovisual narrator with his or her own screen. New television and other screens are daring to change the way stories are told: a more subjective, testimoni…
Living in a narco.culture: An essay on the narco -culture and telenovela as ways of becoming modern
Não é necessário ser traficante de drogas para viver seus valores e desfrutar de sua mentalidade. Este ensaio conta a história por trás da narco.cultura (ou seja, a cultura do tráfico de drogas) ou como os simbolismos do narcotráfico invadiram a sociedade latino-americana: e que se trata da nossa melhor forma de integração regional em termos de negócios, estética, ética, experiência de ascensão social
No more audiences, we all become producers
We can ́t only be consumers, we must be citizens. This essay argues how audiences should become producers of messages that represent a culture of resistance, from its narrative and aesthetics needs, in order to find a place of sense in a world of screens. Hence, new audiences stop being just consumers to get the status of producers of their own screens. This is a contemporary, political, cultural, technological and communicative possibility. Toda…
Mutações bastardas da comunicação
The discourses and agendas of the twentieth century are no longer useful in explaining the changes of our time. It is difficult to explain this zombie society – of living dead people in consumption, far from politics and humanism; with media disconnected from the people and converted into political actors; a capitalism that rewards social injustice and cynicism; a system of justice that is increasingly right-wing and follows the god of capital. F…
No more audiences, we all become producers
We can ́t only be consumers, we must be citizens. This essay argues how audiences should become producers of messages that represent a culture of resistance, from its narrative and aesthetics needs, in order to find a place of sense in a world of screens. Hence, new audiences stop being just consumers to get the status of producers of their own screens. This is a contemporary, political, cultural, technological and communicative possibility. Toda…
Para entenderlos hay que crearlos: Jóvenes, cultura y comunicación
No hay nada más fascinante y aterrador a la vez que los jóvenes. Atraen y producen miedo porque cuando los queremos comprender/explicar, siempre están en otra parte. Seducen por su magia de ser inaprensibles. Y es que los jóvenes son el valor máximo del mercado: todos debemos/queremos/deseamos ser jóvenes. Y eso se puede lograr en el consumo masivo/mediático/cultural. Pero también son el miedo público más ético: los jóvenes han devenido masas sin…
New Television Narratives: Entertainment, Telling, Citizenship, Experimental
Broadcasting and industrial television is a trip back to the past, to a space devoid of meaning, and to the boredom resulting from its moral conservatism, lack of creativity, thought and entertainment. But television’s monopoly over public screening is over; now, anyone can be a producer, an audiovisual narrator with his or her own screen. New television and other screens are daring to change the way stories are told: a more subjective, testimoni…
Living in a narco.culture: An essay on the narco -culture and telenovela as ways of becoming modern
Não é necessário ser traficante de drogas para viver seus valores e desfrutar de sua mentalidade. Este ensaio conta a história por trás da narco.cultura (ou seja, a cultura do tráfico de drogas) ou como os simbolismos do narcotráfico invadiram a sociedade latino-americana: e que se trata da nossa melhor forma de integração regional em termos de negócios, estética, ética, experiência de ascensão social
Los cuentos mediáticos del miedo (Investigación) = Media ́s tales of fear
La inseguridad ciudadana es un buen cuento mediático porque tiene historias, produce un alto impacto emocional y genera habla en la vida cotidiana de la gente. El trabajo periodístico sobre el crimen, el delito y la inseguridad produce miedos ciudadanos e invita a consumir más seguridad. En este texto se presenta, desde una perspectiva comunicativa, dos estudios que dan cuenta de las representaciones y los discursos de la inseguridad ciudadana en…
El pueblo es Dios
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
How Can We Tell the Story of the Colombian War: Bastardized Narratives and Citizen Celebrities
This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12, 2009, Luis Arango was murdered in the Colombian region known as Magdalena Medio. Arango was a fisherman and a leader of local and regional fishing comm…
Audiovisuality of the mist: Video-Cliffs vs Video-Clips
Transparency is the value of our time: Political transparency as a democratic principle. Visual transparency on the digital. Body transparency as aesthetics of seduction. This essay-creation claims that, from and on audiovisual, the visual transparency is an explicit way to conceal, hide, losing the polysemy of images. And proposes the ambiguous of the visible, the dirty look, the bastard identities as a creative tactic to reach narrative, aesthe…
De celebrities, pop y premodernos: Hacia una democracia zombie
Este ensayo parte de los capitales culturales de los ciudadanos actuales para desde ahí comprender y hacer sentido de la política en nuestros tiempos. Se afirma la existencia de tres tipos de ciudadanos: críticos y cínicos que se sienten contraculturales en el consumo, tienen a las redes como templos, creen y descreen de la política; ciudadanos premodernos que ajustan sus afectos a sus creencias y convierten su bronca en batalla moral; ciudadanos…
Periodismo mutante y bastardo
The 20th century ended in 2016. Fidel Castro died in politics. And the journalism could not tell the reality. The great ruin of journalism is that it has stopped narrating democracy, making sense of our times, telling the realities of ordinary people, controlling power. Thus, the journalistic office is an endangered species in the mainstream media that have decided to become political actors that lobby for business interests and have turned infor…
Media and Communications
Developments in digital technologies over the last 30 years have expanded massively human beings' capacity to communicate across time and space (Section 13.1).Media infrastructures have simultaneously acquired huge complexity.By "media" we mean technologies for the production, dissemination, and reception of communication, but also the contents distributed through those technologies and the institutions associated with their production, dissemina…
Mutações bastardas da comunicação
The discourses and agendas of the twentieth century are no longer useful in explaining the changes of our time. It is difficult to explain this zombie society – of living dead people in consumption, far from politics and humanism; with media disconnected from the people and converted into political actors; a capitalism that rewards social injustice and cynicism; a system of justice that is increasingly right-wing and follows the god of capital. F…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
Violencia, memoria y sociedad: Debates y agendas en la Colombia actual
Esta colega [...] me relata la historia de Julia, una mujer indígena que vino desplazada de Pueblo Nuevo hace varios años. En nuestra conversación me describe uno de los escenarios humanos posiblemente más perturbadores que uno pueda imaginar; una de esas historias que nunca emergen en los zócalos y zafarranchos de la ilustre academia, sus cocteles nocturnos y la bufonería internacional y de sus consultores. Una mujer casada, con dos hijos: Paula…
La valentía del silencio, la cobardía del bullicio
Ante esta COSA que nos pasó y se quedó a vivir con nosotros. Lo más bello, los más valiente, lo más sincero hubiese sido callarnos, habitar el silencio, encontrarnos en la escucha. Pero fuimos derrotados por el bullicio. Y ese bullicio hizo que los progres nos sintamos payasos útiles del sistema, esa cobardía del decir nos llevó a decir lo obvio. Este es un testimonio de las obviedades, las mías, que son las únicas de las que puedo hacerme cargo
Testemunhos latino-americanos em memória de Jesús Martín-Barbero
Reunião de depoimentos em homenagem ao pesquisador Jesús Martín-Barbero, realizados por Raúl Fuentes Navarro, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Carlos A. Scolari, Omar Rincón e Néstor García Canclini
From mass popular to bastardized popular
Based on the Martin-Barberian concept of mass popular and without losing his contribution, a conceptual re-invention is suggested to report on the meaning of entertainment, coolture and celebrity citizenship that define mainstream pop in the XXI century. In this re-invention, it is suggested that popular is defined from the bastardization of mixing together the pop, the popular, the territorial and the ancestral
Martín-Barbero’s style
In Latin America, Jesús Martín-Barbero is a pop star and a beloved scholar with thousands of followers captured by his original way of thinking, imagining, and researching the relations between communication, culture, and politics. This essay explains five characteristics of Martín-Barbero’s style: (i) his reflections about expressions of popular and mass culture such as music, telenovelas, fairs, and celebrations; (ii) his gaze at and from local…
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