Multimediated Latinos in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction

Abstract

The multitude of media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century is a radically different landscape to earlier epochs. This proliferation of diverse media formats by and about Latinos extends into film, television, animated cartoons, comic books, and Internet, among many others. This is the century of multiply mediated or multimediated Latinos where we find ourselves increasingly mediated in varying degrees of complexity in all varieties of media formats. It is the century when we might most forcefully ask, how are the multiple media formats being used to represent the many ways of being Latino today?