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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 ...
Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South
(2020-04-30)
This paper examines folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify in order to make visible the cultural specificities of data assemblages in the global South. The study was conducted in Costa Rica and draws on ...
¿El Silicon Valley latinoamericano?: La producción de tecnología de comunicación en Costa Rica (1950-2016)
(2016)
Este artículo analiza el crecimiento de un campo institucional de desarrollo de tecnología de comunicación en Costa Rica desde 1950 hasta la actualidad. El estudio hace dos contribuciones: empíricamente, sitúa la producción ...
At the intersection of content and materiality: A texto-material perspective on agency in the use of media technologies
En la Intersección entre el Contenido y la Materialidad: Una Perspectiva Texto‐Material sobre el Uso de las Tecnologías de los Medios
콘텐츠와 물질화의 상호교차: 미디어 테크놀로지들에 사용에 대한 텍스트- 물질 관점의 연구
An der Schnittstelle zwischen Inhalt und Materialität: Ein texto‐stofflicher Blick auf die Nutzung von Medientechnologien
Nier les noœuds et la fragmentation liquide : développer les conversations sur la diffusion, les réseaux sociaux et la fragmentation
内容与物质的交叉点:媒介技术使用的“文本-物质”视角
(2012)
This article examines the scholarship on agency in the appropriation of information and communication technologies in communication and media research and science and technology studies. Work in these fields has been limited ...
The rise of blogging: Articulation as a dynamic of technological stabilization
(2012)
This article conceptualizes the emergence and stabilization of blogging as a process of articulation; that is, the establishment of a non-necessary link between a group of internet users, websites, metaphors, and practices ...
Web technologies of the self: The arising of the "blogger" identity
(2012-07)
Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of subjectivity, this paper conceptualizes early blogging and online diary writing as “technologies of the self,” that is, procedures through which practitioners enacted certain ...
From online filter to Web format: Articulating materiality and meaning in the early history of blogs
(2011-09)
This paper investigates the transformation of blogs from online ‘filters’ into a ‘format’ for sharing a variety of content on the Web. To account for this process of partial stabilization, this study draws on a mixed-methods ...
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 ...
Comunidades en línea: Historia, Comunicación y Tecnología en la emergencia de colectivos mediáticos
(2005)
Desde las comunidades orales hasta aquellas basadas en intercambios hipertextuales, el artículo discute primeramente la historia de los grupos de usuarios de medios de comunicación que se han articulado a partir de un ...