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 elección presidencial de 2017-2018 en Costa Rica será recordada como uno de los procesos electorales más controversiales en la historia reciente del país. El inicio de la campaña estuvo marcado por una investigación ...

Las redes sociales y tecnologías de comunicación han adquirido gran importancia para un segmento creciente de la población en Costa Rica. El informe de 2018 elaborado por Latinobarómetro ubica a Costa Rica como el líder ...

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 ...

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 ...

This entry discusses the main characteristics of blogs and bloggers and their coevolution since the start of blogging in the 1990s. Blogs are a kind of website that can be used to present introspective ruminations or an ...

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 ...

On February 27, 1994, three Costa Rican engineers took an afternoon flight from San José to Managua, Nicaragua. The timing for this trip was good in more ways than one. Little by little, more than a decade of war in the ...

Latin America has had a long, complex, and complicated relationship with populism. Political figures in the region are usually considered some of the very founders or most iconic representatives of populism (De la Torre, ...

El estudio de tecnologías de comunicación ha ganado auge en años recientes (Gómez-Cruz, 2007; Lievrouw, 2012; Siles, 2008; Silver, 2006). Dutton (2013), por ejemplo, argumenta que este auge simboliza el surgimiento de ...