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Facebook como “tercer espacio”: desencadenantes de discusión política en noticias sobre asuntos no públicos
(2020)
En el 2015, un joven grabó con su teléfono celular a un hombre acosando públicamente a una mujer en San José, Costa Rica. Dos días después, este joven fue asesinado. Al año siguiente, una noticia surgió sobre el caso de ...
Introducción
(2019)
La producción de tecnologías de comunicación se ha desarrollado significativamente en los
últimos años en Costa Rica. En un texto publicado recientemente, el periódico francés Le Monde
analizaba las posibilidades del ...
Pandemic populism and permanent campaigning: How Central American presidents build political legitimacy on Facebook
(2023)
This article examines how Carlos Alvarado and Nayib Bukele, presidents of Costa Rica and El Salvador, respectively, employed Facebook throughout 2020 to communicate about the COVID-19 pandemic. The study draws on content ...
How using various platforms shapes awareness of algorithms
(2022-05-17)
This paper examines how the use of multiple platforms is tied to awareness of algorithms. It builds on the premise that users interact with ecologies or environments of technologies rather than single platforms. The study ...
Blogs
(2018)
The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part of our social, cultural and political lives, ‘new media’ is simply not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding archives of information at our ...
Inventing Twitter: An iterative approach to new media development
(2013)
This article analyzes the creation of Twitter by developing an iterative approach that accounts for feedback loops between developers and users, sequences of interaction between these actors over time, and the various ...
Establishing the Internet in Costa Rica: Co-optation and the closure of technological controversies
(2011-12)
Research in science and technology studies has devoted significant attention to technological controversies and the mechanisms that actors employ to resolve them. This article contributes to this literature by developing ...
25 Years of the Internet in Central America: an interview with Guy de Téramond
(2017-10)
January 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the first dedicated Internet connection in Central America. Little is known about the conditions that characterised the early development of the Internet in this part of the globe. ...
The mechanisms of “incidental news consumption”: An eye tracking study of news interaction on Facebook
(2020)
This exploratory study examines how participants incidentally consumed news on social media through an eye tracking analysis of their visual interaction with posts on Facebook. By interaction, we refer to the attention ...
The Internet as a transnational project: Connecting Central America through computer networks (1990-1996)
(2018-11-24)
This article argues that transnational flows of knowledge, data, and technologies are not only an actual feature of the Internet, but rather a constitutive characteristic of its historical development. To make this case, ...