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Towards a Popular Theory of Algorithms
(2022-07)
This paper establishes dialogues between theories on the popular and critical studies on algorithms and datafication. In doing so, it contributes to reversing the analytical tendency to assume that algorithms have universal ...
Visual communication in practice: A texto-material approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City
(2021)
With more than 2 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the most important mobile technologies in the world. Accordingly, scholarly interest in WhatsApp has grown in recent years. However, studies have tended to separate ...
Fluid agency in relation to algorithms: Tensions, mediations, and transversalities
(2023-05)
This paper argues for a fluid approach to the study of agency in relation to algorithms, one that promotes crossing the boundaries of established analytical positions and breaking away from dualistic forms to frame its ...
Beyond the tropicalization of concepts: theorizing digital realities with and from the Global South (introduction to a special issue)
(2023)
In this introductory section of the special issue titled “Beyond the Tropicalization of Concepts: Theorizing Digital Realities With and From the Global South,” the editors present a critical examination of the unquestioned ...
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 ...
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism
(2024)
Latin America stands as one of the most unequal regions globally, where economic and social crises persist regardless of the ideological leanings of the ruling governments. Many countries in the region grapple with pervasive ...