I am a professor in the School of Communication at Universidad de Costa Rica and a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Comunicación at the same institution. I obtained a PhD in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University (2014) under the direction of Pablo J. Boczkowski, and received my Master’s in Communication (M.Sc.) from the Université de Montréal, Canada (2004).

I wrote the books “Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica” (MIT Press, 2023), A Transnational History of the Internet in Central America (1985-2000): Networks, Integration and Development” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), “Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France” (Peter Lang, 2017), and “Por un Sueño En.red.ado: Una Historia de Internet en Costa Rica” (EUCR, 2008).

I have edited three volumes on the political implications of news circulation on Facebook in Costa Rica (“Verdad en extinción: Miradas interdisciplinarias a la desinformación en Costa Rica” [CICOM, 2021], “Democracia en digital: Facebook, comunicación y política en Costa Rica” [CICOM, 2020]) and the evolution of technology research and development in Costa Rica (“Tecnología e Innovación en Costa Rica” [EUCR, 2019]).

I have also authored articles in journals such as Behaviour & Information Technology; Big Data & Society; Communication, Culture & Critique; Communication Theory; Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; Digital Journalism; Information, Communication & Society; International Communication Gazette; International Journal of Communication; Internet Histories; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; Journal of Cultural Economy; Journal of Information Technology & Politics; Journalism Studies; New Media & Society; Popular Communication; Social Media + Society; Social Studies of Science; The Information Society; and The International Journal of Press/Politics, in addition to various essays in peer-reviewed journals in Latin America, including Comunicación y Sociedad, Cuadernos.info, Palabra Clave, and Signo y Pensamiento.

I am on the Editorial Board of Digital Journalism and Internet Histories.