Ignacio Siles

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Ignacio Siles Professor (“profe”) / School of Communication (ECCC) Subdirector / Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR)

We have a new paper out today in the Journal of Cultural Economy on how musicians in Latin America experience recent transformations in music industries associated with streaming platforms. (04/2022)

Thrilled to present my research on how Latin American musicians relate to Spotify’s algorithms and playlists at the 2022 British Forum for Ethnomusicology annual conference. (04/2022)

I’ll be presenting my research on algorithmic personalization as a communication relationship between users and platforms at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. (03/2022)

Our CFP is out: “Beyond the Tropicalization of Concepts: Theorizing Digital Realities with and from the Global South”. (01/2022)

We have a new paper out in Journalism Studies on the effects of individual evaluation of “fake news” and exposure to fact-checking on the motivations to share them. (11/2021)

The International Journal of Communication published our study on the use of WhatsApp in CDMX. (10/2021)

My talk on life with algorithms in Costa Rica is available at the Digital Americas conference website. (10/2021)

We have a new paper out in The International Journal of Press/Politics on the intersections between populism, religion, and social media in recent Central American presidential elections. (07/2021)

I’ll be presenting (virtually!) my work on users’ relationship with Netflix’s and TikTok’s algorithms at ICA (Feminist Scholarship and Global Communication and Social Change divisions). (05/2021)