Redes urbanas y culturas audiovisuales en la ciudad de México

Abstract

This essay constitutes a reflection on the cultural transformations taking place at the close of the twentieth century, from the perspective of a microecology of daily life. We explore new situations, characterized primarily by the emergence of speed technologies and audiovisual networks. In practice these changes are manifested in the reduction of urban life as it is experienced and verbalized by the inhabitants of the city. An approximation to the "no-places", to the spaces of anonymity? Or to the plenitude of all places mediated -lived- through audiovisual devices? We attempt to look for significance -possible meaning- in what have been called multicultural cities. The popular sectors of Mexico City provide data on the cultures of the image and, by extension, on mufticulturality .