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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

La producción de tecnologías de comunicación se ha desarrollado significativamente en los últimos años en Costa Rica. En un texto publicado recientemente, el periódico francés Le Monde analizaba las posibilidades del ...

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 ...

This entry examines contemporary scholarship on media and information technologies at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and communication studies. The term “media and information technologies” is ...

This entry discusses recent scholarship on the production and consumption of online newspapers. The analysis of production dynamics reveals the main challenges faced by news organizations to generate revenue and to innovate ...