@isiles

Media, tech, society. "Profe" of communication studies @eccc_ucr @UniversidadCR || "Living with algorithms" out with @mitpress: https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZrTMKiJFOW

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Joined July 2010
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¿Por qué ha disminuido el consumo de #noticias en medios tradicionales? 🗞️🤔 En este artículo publicado en el último número se analiza el debate académico latinoamericano en torno al tema. Léelo aquí 😉: cuadernosinfo.uc.cl/index.ph… #academia #MediosDeComunicación #periodismo
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The authors explore how algorithms shape experiences of truth in Costa Rica, analyzing "factishes"—data, affect, and mysticism—through ethnographic stories and a novel "ventriloquist" approach.🤖 Read now at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.202… #Algorithms #facts @TapuyaLASTS #OpenAccess
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Ignacio Siles retweeted
Facu Suenzo@facundosuenzo1 Nov 2024
El team latinoamericano presente en #AOIR2024. @isiles @artarriagada presentando sus investigaciones sobre comunicación digital en Costa Rica y Chile. Orgulloso de ver cómo el campo sigue creciendo de la mano de grandes referentes.
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🚨 New publication out in @journstudies from the @risj_oxford Trust in News Project: "Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News" Open access here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… 🧵 Summary thread below
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@isiles propone reflexionar sobre los algoritmos desde la domesticación mutua: los algoritmos están diseñados para convertir a las personas en consumidores ideales; los usuarios promulgan recomendaciones algorítmicas de formas particulares a medida que las incorporan a su vida – at Panama
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icsjournal@icsjournal27 Apr 2024
#iCS Collection. 🚨 Digital Media Studies in Latin America! A selection of the best we have published from the region made 📷free to view📷 for a limited time Edited by @isiles @Imagenaciones & Paola Ricaurte. tandfonline.com/journals/ric…

Digital Media Studies in Latin America

Explore the article collection: Digital Media Studies in Latin America. Published in Information, Communication & Society.

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A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world. Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica by Ignacio Siles is now available 👉 bit.ly/3HaQgOG
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✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, @nielsvdoorn, @chesoriano, @andretwp & @woshihama journals.sagepub.com/home/PN…
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New pub 📣 Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism from the special theme on Critical Data Studies in Latin America by Paola Ricaurte, @Imagenaciones and @isiles: buff.ly/3v5dNxU #algorithms
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The second one is by Paola Ricaurte, @Imagenaciones and @isiles. Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Four concepts to think from the South, my second contribution to the "What is Cultural Studies?", series has now been published @IJCS_journal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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This article was published in a special issue on theorizing digital realities from the Global South. I thank you so much the editors @chesoriano , @isiles and @Imagenaciones .I also thank all the workers and policy makers I spoke to in the last years
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Not just platform, nor cooperatives: worker-owned technologies from below. New article published by Communication, Culture & Critique. If you need a copy, let me know. academic.oup.com/ccc/advance…
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En este coloquio el próximo 19/10 estará participando @artarriagada de @ecomuai y @mnew_cl con un estudio sobre reputación y visibilidad online en la plataforma Mercado Libre (en conjunto con @isiles).
Big Data & Society@BigDataSoc13 Oct 2023
🚨The 1st session of our colloquium ‘Data infrastructures & labour’ is next Thurs19 October! (4-6pm UK). Our fantastic set of speakers will explore the practices and politics of #datamaking arising through/for #platforms and #infrastructures. + info 👉 buff.ly/3Rvmome &👇
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📢 Exciting New Paper Alert! 📚 Curious about the adequacy of current concepts for grasping digital tech experiences in the Global South? In this piece, with Ramaswami Harindranath, we address this question academic.oup.com/ccc/advance…

Beyond concepts as tokens: heuristic value and epistemic politics in the study of digital subalterns

Abstract. In this article we want to question the adequacy of existing concepts and frameworks for understanding experiences with digital technologies in t

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We know fact-checking works—it increases the accuracy of people’s beliefs. But people who read fact-checks are the most informed to begin with. So, how can we increase the reach of fact-checking? In this new study, we find one way of doing so. A🧵 [1/6] doi.org/10.1177/146144482311…
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Replying to @mitpress @mdscmu @RaTelang @DrTVLotz
In "Living with Algorithms" (available in an #OA edition), Ignacio Siles (@isiles) surveys user dynamics in the global south across Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok and provides a subtle account of how people use, imagine, and resist digital platforms: mitpress.mit.edu/97802625454…

Living with Algorithms

We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algor...

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🚨New publication in Journalism from the @risj_oxford Trust in News Project, where we show the important role of a variety of cues and heuristics to how people determine what news to trust online when they are unfamiliar with the source. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… Key points in 🧵

Shortcuts to trust: Relying on cues to judge online news from unfamiliar sources on digital...

Scholarship has increasingly sought solutions for reversing broad declines in levels of trust in news in many countries. Some have advocated for news organizati...

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Presenting our work with @isiles on Mercado Libre sellers in Chile at @uva_gdc conference. This presentation is part of a panel titled "Risks and opportunities across social media and e-commerce platforms" (1/2).
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El próximo 17/5 continuamos con los seminarios Cultura Social Media '23 en @ecomuai. En esta ocasión contamos con la presentación de @isiles sobre "Vivir con algoritmos" y los comentarios de @KikeSantana. Inscripciones: shorturl.at/dhqy6
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