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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 ...
Sitios costarricenses de noticias en Facebook: ¿Qué “likean”, comentan y comparten sus usuarios?
Costa Rican news outlets on facebook: What do users like, comment and share?
(2018-10-08)
En este artículo, se discute cómo usuarias y usuarios interactúan con contenido noticioso publicado por sitios costarricenses de noticias en Facebook. Utilizando una metodología mixta que combinó el análisis de redes ...
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, ...
La investigación sobre tecnología de la comunicación en América Latina: un análisis crítico de la literatura (2005-2015)
Research on Communications Technology in Latin America: A Critical Analysis of the Literature (2005-2015)
A pesquisa sobre tecnologia da comunicação na América Latina: uma análise crítica da literatura (2005-2015)
(2019-01)
Este artículo analiza una muestra de artículos sobre tecnología de la comunicación, publicados por revistas latinoamericanas. Seleccionamos las revistas más citadas en el campo de la comunicación de diferentes partes de ...
Prácticas y dinámicas de creación de memes en Costa Rica
(2020-12)
Este artículo examina las prácticas y dinámicas de creación de memes de un grupo de personas en Costa Rica. El análisis está basado en 15 entrevistas en profundidad con creadores de memes en ese país. Se discuten cuatro ...
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 ...
Facebook as “third space”: Triggers of political talk in news about nonpublic affairs
(2020-10)
This paper builds on recent work on “third spaces” to analyze political talk in comments on news about nonpublic affairs. It draws on content and discourse analyses of comments on news published by a leading Costa Rican ...
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 ...
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 ...
La circulación de noticias en internet: miradas cruzadas al caso de Costa Rica
The circulation of news on the internet: the case of Costa Rica
(2018)
Este número contribuye a una mejor comprensión de los comportamientos que tienen las lectoras y los lectores de sitios informativos costarricenses en Internet y las dinámicas de circulación y apropiación de noticias ...