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Individual predictors of COVID-19 disinformation detection and sharing via WhatsApp
Predictores individuales para la detección y difusión de desinformación sobre COVID-19 a través de WhatsApp
(2024)
This study examines cognitive, socio-political, and socio-demogra-phic predictors of the evaluation and willingness to share disinformation about COVID-19 via WhatsApp. Using an online survey, a convenience sample of 553 ...
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 ...
Individual evaluation vs fact-checking in the recognition and willingness to share fake news about COVID-19 via Whatsapp
(2021-10-30)
The aim of the study is to research the effects of individual evaluation of fake and truthful news about COVID-19, compared to the exposure to fact-checking on the intention to share them via WhatsApp. An online experiment ...
Pandemic populism and permanent campaigning: How Central American presidents build political legitimacy on Facebook
(2023)
This article examines how Carlos Alvarado and Nayib Bukele, presidents of Costa Rica and El Salvador, respectively, employed Facebook throughout 2020 to communicate about the COVID-19 pandemic. The study draws on content ...
How using various platforms shapes awareness of algorithms
(2022-05-17)
This paper examines how the use of multiple platforms is tied to awareness of algorithms. It builds on the premise that users interact with ecologies or environments of technologies rather than single platforms. The study ...
The rise of blogging: Articulation as a dynamic of technological stabilization
(2012)
This article conceptualizes the emergence and stabilization of blogging as a process of articulation; that is, the establishment of a non-necessary link between a group of internet users, websites, metaphors, and practices ...
La investigación sobre tecnología de la comunicación en América Latina: un análisis crítico de la literatura (2005-2015)
Research on Communications Technology in Latin America: A Critical Analysis of the Literature (2005-2015)
A pesquisa sobre tecnologia da comunicação na América Latina: uma análise crítica da literatura (2005-2015)
(2019-01)
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 ...
Inventing Twitter: An iterative approach to new media development
(2013)
This article analyzes the creation of Twitter by developing an iterative approach that accounts for feedback loops between developers and users, sequences of interaction between these actors over time, and the various ...
Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South
(2020-04-30)
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 ...
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 ...