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Uncertain Knowledge. Studying “Truth” and “Conspiracies” in the Digital Age
(2021-05-20)
It is nowadays commonplace to find statements about how the web has increased the circulation and reach of “conspiracy theories”. In France, the attack on the Capitol by .QAnon activists in January 2021, and before that ...
Towards a Popular Theory of Algorithms
(2022-07)
This paper establishes dialogues between theories on the popular and critical studies on algorithms and datafication. In doing so, it contributes to reversing the analytical tendency to assume that algorithms have universal ...
Elecciones en tiempos virales
(2024)
La elección presidencial de 2022 en Costa Rica expresó
de manera vívida la transición a una forma de hacer política
marcada por lo viral. En el sentido más literal, la campaña tuvo
lugar tras más de dos años de pandemia ...
Blogs and bloggers
(2019-12)
This entry discusses the main characteristics of blogs and bloggers and their coevolution since the start of blogging in the 1990s. Blogs are a kind of website that can be used to present introspective ruminations or an ...
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 ...
Informe de resultados del estudio de opinión sociopolítica: Audiencias noticiosas de medios digitales: redes sociales, WhatsApp y noticias falsas
(2019)
Las redes sociales y tecnologías de comunicación han adquirido gran importancia
para un segmento creciente de la población en Costa Rica. El informe de 2018
elaborado por Latinobarómetro ubica a Costa Rica como el líder ...
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 ...
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry
(2023-02-15)
Examining the case of the Chilean influencer industry, this paper argues for situating affordances within a wider context in which the features of platforms acquire meanings. Our analysis focuses on two dynamics. On the ...
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 ...
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. ...