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    Whiteness, Technological Capital and Platformed Interculturality: COIL Experiences in Latin America
    (Informa UK Limited, 2026)
    Domenack-Bracamonte, Wendy
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    Bacca Rozo, Julia Esperanza
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    The internationalisation of higher education in Latin America has increasingly incorporated internationalisation-at-home initiatives, among which Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) has become central. Often framed as a democratising strategy for fostering intercultural competence, these initiatives operate within platform-mediated environments shaped by symbolic hierarchies, technological inequalities, and regimes of professional visibility. This article examines how whiteness – understood not as a phenotypic attribute but as an ethos of modernity and legitimation – is performed within digitally mediated intercultural encounters. The study analyses a tri-national COIL experience involving communication students from private universities in Peru, Mexico, and Colombia, conducted through the professional networking platform LinkedIn. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines survey data from 119 students with qualitative analysis of 15 group-based digital self-presentation artefacts. Findings indicate that technological capital functions as a key symbolic divider, privileging visibility linked to technical fluency and professional respectability. A dissonance emerges between students’ declared commitments to intercultural openness and their interactional practices, which remain limited and exhibition-oriented. Cultural difference is frequently articulated through depoliticised and affectively safe repertoires, notably gastronomy. The article argues that digital internationalisation reconfigures interculturality as a regulated and aspirational practice aligned with global professional norms. Ā©The authors Ā©Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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    Pop justice and viral shame: vernacular vigilantism in Mexico’s Lords and Ladys
    This article examines the phenomenon of balconeo in Mexico, a culturally form of digital vigilantism characterized by the viral exposure and shaming of individuals labeled as ā€œLordsā€ and ā€œLadys.ā€ Captured via smartphones and rapidly circulated on platforms such as TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube, these incidents generate affective publics engaged in what this study conceptualizes as ā€œpop justice.ā€ Drawing from affect theory, meme studies, and digital culture, this article analyzes ten emblematic balconeo cases (2015–2025) combining narrative reconstruction, discourse analysis, and meme semiotics. Memes function as affective technologies that frame deviance and regulate classed and gendered behaviors through ironic repetition and visual performance. Women are disproportionately subjected to extended cycles of symbolic punishment and gendered ridicule, while men are often framed through aggression or impunity. Situating balconeo as a participatory surveillance and moral pedagogy, the article contributes to debates on viral culture, affective publics, and informal justice in global digital contexts. Ā©The authors Ā©Routledge.
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    Comunicación para un cambio organizacional en el Grupo Art Display, S. A. de C. V.
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    SƔnchez Soto, Armando
    El hombre a lo largo de su vida cambia, nunca es igual, cada día es una nueva oportunidad de crecer y disfrutar, y esto se da porque la realidad nos obliga, pues el motor de la vida es el cambio. En ocasiones no nos proponemos ese cambio y es probable que no sea para mejorar, pero lo necesitamos dar para ver que rumbo va tomando nuestra vida. Este cambio es un proceso que si lo queremos entender lo tenemos que iniciar como la evaluación de las circunstancias que se nos presentan en nuestras vidas, necesitamos también tener disposición para aceptarlo y no olvidamos de dejar ir el pasado. Aunque yo se que es muy difícil dejar atrÔs las cosas, y mÔs aún dejar al paso, pues como seres humanos nos aterra cambiar, pues no sabemos si nos ira bien o mal, pero es el primer paso que debemos dar para cambiar. Ahora bien para poder dar esos cambios es importante antes que nada quererlos hacer, pues si no, no tiene caso nada, una vez que tienes la intención de hacer acciones, debes identificarlas para damos cuenta que lo que realmente valoramos y buscamos y así poder dirigir cambios positivos en nuestras vidas. La intención es individual lo que realmente queremos cada uno, pues no le puedes decir a otros lo que deben hacer, solo puedes aconsejar pero jamÔs imponer algo que no quieran hacer los demÔs.
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    Una mirada a las expectativas en la vejez desde las narrativas del cine mexicano
    (Universidad Panamericana, Escuela de Comunicación, 2022) ; ; ;
    ALMA DELIA ZAMORANO ROJAS; 36360
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    Universidad Panamericana. Campus Ciudad de México. Escuela de Comunicación
    The representation of old age in Mexican cine-ma is the starting point for analyzing the false stereo-types that are currently held about the elderly. The re-spect that different cultures used to give to the elderly has been lost and nowadays they are considered a work nuisance or a burden for their families, ignoring and discriminating against them. This research compares the films Por si no te vuelvo a ver (Juan Pablo Villaseñor, 1997) and En el último trago (Jack Zagha Kababie, 2015) in which a dif-ferent look is proposed, where the protagonists find the necessary motivation to fulfill a goal and face challeng-es and problems to achieve it. Thus they achieve a trans-formation in which they can enjoy their old age and live it to the fullest.
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