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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Por un sueño en.red.ado: una historia de Internet en Costa Rica (1990-2005)
(2008)
El libro, producto de una investigación, trata la historia de Internet en Costa Rica, remontando a sus orígenes a finales de los años ochenta con Bitenet -su antecesora- y terminando en el 2005. El autor analiza la historia ...
Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work
(2012)
This article analyzes recent research on the newspaper crisis. It discusses how authors have examined the sources, manifestations, and implications of this crisis, and the proposals to resolve it. In addition, the essay ...
Establishing the Internet in Costa Rica: Co-optation and the closure of technological controversies
(2011-12)
Research in science and technology studies has devoted significant attention to technological controversies and the mechanisms that actors employ to resolve them. This article contributes to this literature by developing ...