Archive For The “travel” Category

drive-by posting

By Xiaochang Li | August 14, 2009

Just a quick note — I haven’t been posting recently because I’ve been on the road, driving from Boston to Florida then over to LA, where I am at the moment. Very manifest destiny and all of that and full of the expected roadtrip adventures: winning cash at casinos in Mississippi, thunderstorms through Lousiana and [...]

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Branding in Bahía: Spreadable media made (literally) material

By Xiaochang Li | February 27, 2009

Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium blog. For details about how Carnival works in Bahia, please refer to Ana Domb’s post. It’s fitting that we’re closing in on the end of our Spreadable Media white paper series on the blog just as Ana and I begin to discuss our experiences and research in Brazil, [...]

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Quick note from the road

By Xiaochang Li | February 23, 2009

Landed in Salvador yesterday morning and just settling into the whole Carnival flow of things. Sadly discovered that I had left my camera cable back in Boston, so I won’t be able to upload photos until I acquire an SD card reader, which likely won’t happen until Sao Paulo since roads are a mess here [...]

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