The Digital Environment How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now

El libro The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now, escrito por Pablo Boczkowski y Eugenia Mitchelstein (2021), ofrece un fascinante recorrido intelectual por dimensiones importantes del entorno digital –aquel donde, a la par de los entornos natural y urbano, se gestiona la vida diaria en la actualidad–. A través de un relato coral, que combina las voces de 60 autores del campo de la comunicación y los medios, el libro genera cuatro contribuciones destacadas para estudiosos de la mediatización y los medios digitales, también para lectores que usen –o rechacen el uso– de las tecnologías de comunicación e información contemporáneas y que deseen comprender teórica y empíricamente sus propias prácticas. Primero, el libro presenta y organiza los hallazgos más relevantes respecto de cómo se vive, aprende, trabaja, y juega digitalmente. Segundo, al visibilizar y tejer lazos entre voces expertas que trabajan con temáticas y perspectivas disímiles, el libro opera interdisciplinariamente: genera así diálogos y espacios de encuentro teóricos y metodológicos en un campo intelectual que se ha caracterizado por su hiperfragmentación. Tercero, corre a los medios digitales de la posición de objetos para reubicarlos como lugares donde se vive, sin quitarle centralidad a la agencia de los usuarios. Cuarto, propone una definición de entorno digital –caracterizado por su totalidad, dualidad, conflicto e indeterminación– que sortea a la tendencia contemporánea hacia la reificación de pánicos morales sobre los supuestos efectos negativos de las tecnologías de la comunicación e información

Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media

This paper examines the dynamics of news consumption on social media through sixteen open-ended interviews with young users from Argentina. It adopts a texto-material perspective to explore the role of technology and users’ motivations, actions and interpretations. The interviews reveal that the ideal-typical mode in which young users consume news on social media can be characterized with the notion of “incidental news”: most young users get the news on their mobile devices as part of their constant connection to media platforms; they encounter the news all the time, rather than looking for it; but click on them only sporadically and spend little time engaging with the content. Thus, the news becomes un-differentiated from the rest of the social and entertainment information. This mode of news access marks a significant discontinuity with the consumption of news on other media. It also raises major editorial and political implications

Social media in Ibero-America. Review article

This paper presents an analysis of the existing literature on social networks in Ibero-America, with the objective of organizing the main topics covered, highlighting findings, and proposing future research paths. The four thematic areas that stand out are political communication and electronic government; journalism and traditional media; social groups (including adolescents and young people, those marginalized, women, entrepreneurs and influencers, students, and older adults) and areas of use (including commerce, tourism, education, health, professional communication); and political and civic participation. In addition, we review the literature from the perspective of the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat) and from the geographical regions and countries that make up Ibero-America, to observe similarities and differences. We conclude with the mention and analysis of the two most outstanding patterns of the studies examined: 1) a tendency to expect from the networks a transformative potential that is not necessarily proven, especially in the case of political communication and journalism; 2) transformative capacity of networks in the areas of tourism, education and health, in which traditional media have not been characterized by having a prominent role. Finally, we propose some paths for future studies, among them the pursuit of comparative works, the incorporation of relational perspectives in the treatment of networks, the addition of mixed, experimental and computational methodologies, and the consideration, from the research design standpoint, of the acceleration of technological change and the need to generate questions and conceptualizations capable of surviving the passage of time

Redes sociales en Iberoamérica. Artículo de revisión

This paper presents an analysis of the existing literature on social networks in Ibero-America, with the objective of organizing the main topics covered, highlighting findings, and proposing future research paths. The four thematic areas that stand out are political communication and electronic government; journalism and traditional media; social groups (including adolescents and young people, those marginalized, women, entrepreneurs and influencers, students, and older adults) and areas of use (including commerce, tourism, education, health, professional communication); and political and civic participation. In addition, we review the literature from the perspective of the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat) and from the geographical regions and countries that make up Ibero-America, to observe similarities and differences. We conclude with the mention and analysis of the two most outstanding patterns of the studies examined: 1) a tendency to expect from the networks a transformative potential that is not necessarily proven, especially in the case of political communication and journalism; 2) transformative capacity of networks in the areas of tourism, education and health, in which traditional media have not been characterized by having a prominent role. Finally, we propose some paths for future studies, among them the pursuit of comparative works, the incorporation of relational perspectives in the treatment of networks, the addition of mixed, experimental and computational methodologies, and the consideration, from the research design standpoint, of the acceleration of technological change and the need to generate questions and conceptualizations capable of surviving the passage of time

Redes sociales en Iberoamérica. Artículo de revisión

This paper presents an analysis of the existing literature on social networks in Ibero-America, with the objective of organizing the main topics covered, highlighting findings, and proposing future research paths. The four thematic areas that stand out are political communication and electronic government; journalism and traditional media; social groups (including adolescents and young people, those marginalized, women, entrepreneurs and influencers, students, and older adults) and areas of use (including commerce, tourism, education, health, professional communication); and political and civic participation. In addition, we review the literature from the perspective of the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat) and from the geographical regions and countries that make up Ibero-America, to observe similarities and differences. We conclude with the mention and analysis of the two most outstanding patterns of the studies examined: 1) a tendency to expect from the networks a transformative potential that is not necessarily proven, especially in the case of political communication and journalism; 2) transformative capacity of networks in the areas of tourism, education and health, in which traditional media have not been characterized by having a prominent role. Finally, we propose some paths for future studies, among them the pursuit of comparative works, the incorporation of relational perspectives in the treatment of networks, the addition of mixed, experimental and computational methodologies, and the consideration, from the research design standpoint, of the acceleration of technological change and the need to generate questions and conceptualizations capable of surviving the passage of time

Huellas de la presencia conectada : estudio en recepción de la última hora de conexión y la confirmación de lectura del mensaje en el dispositivo WhatsApp

Fil: Matassi, Mora. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Ramírez Gelbes, Silvi