The Electronic Embrace: Transnational Television and Its Latina/o Diasporic Audiences

FAIN: FA-55525-10

Catherine Benamou
Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)

My second book project involves a multi-phase, multi-site study of the transnational and local transmission of Spanish- and Portuguese-language television, and the role of these media in shaping Latina/o diasporic identity and enfranchisement at the turn of the new millennium. The study is being carried out within predominantly migrant Latina/o communities in four urban settings: Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and Madrid. Modes of viewer engagement and interpretation are being analyzed in dynamic relation to what anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has called "mediascapes" (Appadurai, 1997) at these sites, with special attention to the construction of gender and class relations, language orientation, ethnicity, and national origin as they are figured within media discourse, and as they enter into tension with the popular consumption of media texts.

Associated Products

Access, Affect, Agency: Migrant Spectatorship and the Limits of Media Enfranchisement (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Access, Affect, Agency: Migrant Spectatorship and the Limits of Media Enfranchisement
Author: Catherine Benamou
Abstract: N/A
Date: 5/20/2011
Conference Name: Urban Transformations in the Americas: Citizenship, Identity, and Global Networks

Access, Affect, Advocacy: Migrant Spectatorship and the Quest for Media Enfranchisement in Spain and the United States (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Access, Affect, Advocacy: Migrant Spectatorship and the Quest for Media Enfranchisement in Spain and the United States
Author: Catherine Benamou
Abstract: N/A
Date: 10/15/2011
Conference Name: Global Fusion 2011: Power, Resistance and the Media

Real/Drama: Migrant Spectatorship and the Changing Stakes of Television Narrative (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Real/Drama: Migrant Spectatorship and the Changing Stakes of Television Narrative
Author: Catherine Benamou
Abstract: N/A
Date: 3/23/2012
Primary URL: http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=conference
Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference; Panel: Activism, Policy, and Textual Struggles for Representation

Televisioning Across the Tordesilhas Line (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Televisioning Across the Tordesilhas Line
Author: Catherine Benamou
Abstract: N/A
Date: 5/26/2012
Conference Name: International Communications Conference

Beyond Access: Exploring Digital cultures in the Global Barrio (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Beyond Access: Exploring Digital cultures in the Global Barrio
Author: Catherine Benamou
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/4/2014
Conference Name: New Cinemas and the Global South conference at Michigan State University

Real-Drama: Migrant Spectatorship and the Changing Stakes of Spanish-Language Television Narrative (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Real-Drama: Migrant Spectatorship and the Changing Stakes of Spanish-Language Television Narrative
Abstract: N/A
Author: Catherine Benamou
Date: 11/4/2011
Location: Film and Media Studies Department, University of California-Santa Barbara

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