Selected Presentations

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  October, 2011. "Crafting the post-national: the rising transnational industrial model in the Ibero-American audiovisual space," Global Fusion, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)
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  September, 2011. "United States: the growth, restructure, digitalization and diversification of Hispanic television," VI Obitel Seminar, Catholic University of Portugal, (Lisbon)
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  May, 2011. "Convergence culture and the new marketing frontier." ICA (Boston, MA).
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  May, 2011. "The emergence of a third linguistic space in the U.S. Latino television: cable networks targeting young bilingual-bicultural Latina/os." with Professor Viviana Rojas, ICA (Boston, MA)
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  May, 2011. "La TV hispana de los Estados Unidos y los flujos hemisféricos de programación." Universidad Panamericana. (Ciudad de México, México)
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  November, 2010. “Passing as Hispanic network: Azteca America’s strategies of identity, programming, production and marketing,” ASA (San Antonio, TX)
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  August, 2010. “La TV Hispana en transición.” V Seminário Internacional OBITEL, PUC-Rio Brasil (Rio de Janeiro)
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  November, 2009. “The role of broadcasting distribution in the configuration of the U.S. Spanish-language television industry,” NCA (Chicago Illinois).
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  October, 2009. “Betty and the ugly reality of telenovelas in the U.S. television market.” Global Fusion UT (Austin TX).
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  July, 2009. “New players and new scenarios in the Latino television field in the United States” OBITEL. IAMCR , (Mexico, D.F.)
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  April, 2009. “The institutional process of production audiences: the case of Azteca America.” Hispanic Media and Audiences: Professional and Academic Perspectives Colloquium TTU (Lubbock TX)
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  April, 2009. “Spanish, English or Spanglish? The new battlefronts for the Latino television audience.” Hispanic Media and Audiences: Professional and Academic Perspectives Colloquium, TTU (Lubbock TX)
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  February, 2009. “The unexplored site of distribution and the challenges of building a national television network within the U.S. Latino field: The case of Azteca America.” International Conference of the State of the Spanish-Language & other Latino-Oriented Media Texas State University, (San Marcos TX)
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  November, 2008. “The unexplored site of distribution and the challenges of building a national television network within the U.S. Latino television field: the case of Azteca America.” DRC at MCC-NYU (New York, NY)
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  October, 2008. “Azteca America’s business model and the strategies of building a network within the U.S. Spanish-language television industry,” II Congreso de las Américas, (Mexico D.F.)
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  May, 2008. “Mapping the transformation of the U.S. Latino television field,” ICA. (Montreal, Canada)
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  May, 2007. “TV Azteca’s process of internationalization: Selling Mexican-ness.” ICA (San Francisco, CA)
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  May, 2007. “Latinos and Televisión: Hybridization or Multilayered Cultural Identities.” ICA, (San Francisco, CA).
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  April, 2007. “Azteca America strategies of expansion into the U.S. Latino Media” Siglo XXI – Mexican American Center - IUPLR, (Austin, TX)
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  January, 2007. “Reflexiones sobre la recepción televisiva de telenovelas: el caso de Betty la Fea” Cátedra de Semiótica ITESM-CCM. (Mexico, D.F.)
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  November, 2006. “Mapping social mobility, accumulation of linguistic capital and media use by family trajectories and socioeconomic genograms” NCA (San Antonio, TX)
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  October, 2006. “Mexican TV Azteca's Transnational Expansion in America as part of its National Competition”, Global Fusion (Chicago, Il).
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  September, 2006. “Elections and the emergence of a divided society” Presentation at The Aftermath of the 2006 Mexican Elections. LILAS-UT (Austin, TX)
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  September, 2005. “Family Trajectories, Cultural Capital, and Media Use” Global Fusion (Athens, Ohio)
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  May, 2005. “Rethinking the Digital Divide: A Capabilities Approach to Digital Inequalities” ICA (New York, NY)
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  May, 2005. “Still Divided: Ethnicity, Generation, Cultural Capital and New Technologies,” ICA (New York, NY)