This is my first edition of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal as the Director of Publications for the next three years. This feels like home to me, since I spent a good part of my corporate life in the publishing…

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As has been seen in previous issues, these current articles show a diversity of ideas and approaches to engineering design graphics.  Rodriguez's article demonstrates how 3-D computer graphics techniques can be applied to helping solve difficult real-world civil engineering problems. …

It was your volunteering that made my leadership easy and rewarding.  Thank you all.   As I end my short 12 month sting as Chair of the Engineering Design Graphics Division I want to thank the DIvision membership for your…

It has been difficult to understand the relationship between mediated images of poverty in telenovelas and the symbolic reproduction of inequalities in Brazil, due in part to two factors: 1) the denial of the structural causation of social classes; and…

Recent films seem to support the notion of a Brazilian film industry revival. However, a closer look reflects another possibility: a logic in the audiovisual production chain, in which the television industry plays a central role. According to logic, the…

It has been difficult to understand the relationship between mediated images of poverty in telenovelas and the symbolic reproduction of inequalities in Brazil, due in part to two factors: 1) the denial of the structural causation of social classes; and…

Recent films seem to support the notion of a Brazilian film industry revival. However, a closer look reflects another possibility: a logic in the audiovisual production chain, in which the television industry plays a central role. According to logic, the…

This case study of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil argues that treating youth violence as an issue of criminality rather than citizenship, positions youth at the center of a “just war” that reproduces violence as a biopolitical strategy of conserving authority.…

The research examines Brazilian, French, and American discourse regarding the events of September 11, 2001. The article illuminates culturally specific constructions of guilt and innocence that emerged in online communities or discourse fora. The fora were hosted by flagship national…