Undocumented Workers “Like” Social Media to Survive
Undocumented Workers “Like” Social Media to Survive
By Viviana Fernandez, Voxxi Undocumented immigrants are surviving tougher immigration laws implemented in Georgia and other southern states by utilizing a surprising tool: social media. It has become an instrument to […]
Being An Agent Of Change In Colombia
By Armando Rayo This SXSW coverage is sponsored by Univision News. Panelists: Andrés Traslaviña & Daniel Medina Great panel discussion regarding how social media has allowed citizens to engage in the […]
La Revolución Será Tuiteada: Next Gen Latinos & Social Media
By José Cruz Like many, I have been watching the recent large growth of Latinos using the Internet, social media and mobile applications. It seems as if every other week a […]
Latinos Use Smartphones, Spanglish To Google
An interesting report from ClickZ describes how Latinos use search engines like Google. Some of what was reported has been previously reported on News Taco, but there was a lot […]
Latinos Love Smartphones
A recent study from Nielsen found that about a third of cell phone users in the U.S., 31%, have smartphones with Internet enabled operating systems, and this percentage is even higher […]
Digital Divide, Mobile Use Negatively Impact Latinos
An interesting analysis from the Associated Press hints that, although Latinos and African-Americans have managed to overcome big parts of the digital divide through cell phones, there are bigger underlying […]
Net Neutrality Vote Bad For Latinos
We wrote about the potential impact net neutrality could have on Latinos previously and now that the Federal Communications Commission has taken a vote on this issue, we’re back with […]
Latinos Use Twitter More Than Whites, Blacks
A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 8% of adults in the U.S. use Twitter. But, in the survey’s results, 18% of these users were […]
Latinos Love Location-Based Services
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life recently published a study that found that only 4% of U.S. mobile users utilize location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare. However, Latinos […]