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Matías Valderrama Barragán

@mvaldeb.bsky.social

🇨🇱 Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Digital sociology | Science and Technology Studies | Surveillance Studies | Social theory Personal website: matiasvalderrama.me

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Matías Valderrama Barragán@mvaldeb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Great few days in Glasgow for #SMSociety. Honoured to receive the Digital Methods Award! Huge thanks to the organisers and committee, it means a lot :) Loved hearing from wonderful scholars advancing social media accountability and governance. So much inspiration to take back to Chile.

Matías Valderrama Barragán@mvaldeb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Pleased to share a new pub with Niall Docherty in International Journal of Cultural Studies. Drawing on Elias, we analyse Meta's guides as a corporate curriculum that reframes platform issues as individual failures of resilience & manners – to civilize, not empower users. doi.org/10.1177/1367...

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Matías Valderrama Barragán@mvaldeb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled to share that I was recently interviewed for the Digital Journalism newsletter. Many thanks to the editors — and especially to @tomasdodds.bsky.social — for the opportunity!

Digital Journalism@digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally, the newsletter includes a new episode in our series of interviews with first-time authors. We speak with Matías Valderrama Barragán (@mvaldeb.bsky.social) about his co-authored paper “From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism: Analysing Chilean News Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence”

Arturo Arriagada@arturoarriagada.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New article with @mvaldeb.bsky.social out now in the @jcultecon.bsky.social: "(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry". shorturl.at/HzPCi We explore how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure “influence”.

(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry

This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

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Matías Valderrama Barragán@mvaldeb.bsky.social · last yr.

Last hours to register for the Artificial Societies Symposium! If you are interested in the social implications of design and engineering in digital settings or the state of the social(s) after the digital, this is the place #sts #digitalmedia #digitalsociology warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Artificial Societies Symposium

Social life is increasingly shaped by engineering in digital environments, often without accountability. This event, co-organised by Warwick’s CIM and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, fosters interdis...

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Matías Valderrama Barragán@mvaldeb.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Noortje Marres@noortjem.bsky.social · last yr.

Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?

Ayona Datta@ayonadatta.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures

Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...

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Esteban Morales@estebanmorales.bsky.social · last yr.

Con @ariadnamf.bsky.social estamos organizando una sesión informativa en español para los y las interesadas en participar en #AoIR2025 — especialmente dirigido a colegas de universidades en LaTam. Se pueden registrar aquí forms.gle/fhqyrPdrRzWL... Agradecería que compartan la invitación!

Sesión informativa en español - AoIR2025 en Brasil

Durante esta sesión informativa vamos a extender una invitación a investigadores e investigadoras de Latinoamérica a participar en la conferencia AoIR2025 (Asociación de Investigadores de Internet, en...

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics@csmapnyu.org · 2y ago

Removing misinformation classifiers, combined with the changes to hate speech rules, will have a much larger impact on what users see in their feeds than the changes to fact-checking, which are still getting a lot of media attention.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
Matías Valderrama Barragán@mvaldeb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Super excited to share this paper with @noortjem.bsky.social! Very honored to have contributed to this article. If you are interested in how science and expert advice should respond congruently to emergency situations, take a look!

Noortje Marres@noortjem.bsky.social · 2y ago

Critical situations of Covid-19 identified by members and partners of IndieSAGE, the group of scientists that formed in 2020 to provide expert advice on the pandemic response. New article in Social Studies of Science with @mvaldeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306... Visualisations by G. Terenghi

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 2y ago

As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting. This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.

Screenshot from a 2020 BuzzFeed News story that reads: One employee who spoke with BuzzFeed News after the event was not comforted by their CEO’s words. “He seems truly incapable of taking personal responsibility for decisions and actions at Facebook,” they said.
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2y ago

The European Commission is accepting feedback on a draft delegated act under the DSA to govern researcher access to platform data. The draft introduces many commendable ideas, but suffers from a limited conception of empirical research, write Lukas Seiling, Ulrike Klinger, and Jakob Ohme.

Non-Public Data Access for Researchers: Challenges in the Draft Delegated Act of the Digital Services Act | TechPolicy.Press

The draft delegated act introduces many commendable clarifications and structures, but suffers from a limited conception of empirical research.

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