Antonio C. La Pastina

Antonio C. La Pastina is an Associate Professor at the Communication Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, He holds a Ph.D. from the Radio-TV-Film Department at University of Texas at Austin.  His research interests are on media ethnography; the representation of otherness in mainstream media and its role on diasporic cultures as well as the implications of the digital divide to peripheral communities. He has conducted research in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and central Texas, Northeast of Brazil and Central Italy. He teaches courses in international communication, ethnography, globalization, media, gender and race, and US and Latin American popular culture. His work has appeared in several journals including Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media, Gazette as well as in several edited books.  Before moving to the United States in the late 1980s he worked as a journalist in São Paulo, Brazil, his native country.