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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 ...
Steps toward cosmopolitanism in the study of media technologies
(2014)
Most scholarship on media technologies can be organized along two main dimensions of
inquiry: the production or consumption of these technologies, and their content or material
dimensions. This map of the field of inquiry ...
The Mutual Domestication of Users and Algorithmic Recommendations on Netflix
(2019)
This article examines the mutual domestication of users and recommendation algorithms on Netflix. Based on 25 interviews with users and an inductive analysis of their practices and profiles on the platform, we discuss five ...
La lectura de textos multimodales en el uso de redes sociales: Estudio exploratorio con el uso del registro de movimientos oculares
(2020-03)
El uso de equipos de seguimiento ocular (eye tracker) en la investigación lingüística se relaciona comúnmente con estudios de carácter experimental (Preisig et al., 2015; Damaskinidis et al., 2018; Allopenna, Magnuson, & ...
Comunicación y política en clave digital: las redes sociales y el proceso electoral 2017-2018
(2019)
En el chat familiar de WhatsApp, un agitado debate emerge en lo que había sido un grupo tranquilo. El motivo de la discordia: un meme de Fabricio Alvarado sobre su participación en un debate televisivo. Para “Catalina”, ...
Introducción
(2020)
En el chat familiar de WhatsApp, una agitada conversación emerge en media
campaña electoral. El motivo de la discordia: un meme de Fabricio Alvarado sobre
su participación en un debate televisivo. Para “Catalina”, la tía ...
Digital Cultures in the Americas
(2020-03)
More than two decades have passed since the publication of two seminal books in the study of digital cultures in Latin America. First was Ciberculturas en la era de las máquinas inteligentes (Piscitelli, 1995), published ...
Follow the Networks
(2020)
On February 27, 1994, three Costa Rican engineers took an afternoon flight from San
José to Managua, Nicaragua. The timing for this trip was good in more ways than one. Little by
little, more than a decade of war in the ...
Populism, Media, and Misinformation in Latin America
(2021)
Latin America has had a long, complex, and complicated relationship with populism.
Political figures in the region are usually considered some of the very founders or most iconic
representatives of populism (De la Torre, ...
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 ...