El nuevo paradigma de la comunicación digital

Mis estimados amigos Juan Fernando Muñoz y Marco López, me comparten la edición del libro: La formación en comunicación: visiones de una formación futura (conceptos y aproximaciones) en el que participan destacados académicos de diversos países.

Gracias a su invitación tuve oportunidad de aportar con la siguiente propuesta: El nuevo paradigma de la comunicación digital.

Aquí comparto el texto, esperando resulte de interés.

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Context blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution.

Aquí un fragmento de la conferencia que tuvimos el martes 20 de septiembre con la Dra. Eva Berger.

Eva Berger at the Tecnologico de Monterrey

Eva Berger is a professor of Media Studies at COMAS in Israel. She serves as Secretary of the Institute of General Semantics. She is co-author of The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Ecology from New York University. Her latest book, Context blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution, was published by Peter Lang.

Eva Berger’s lecture – Context blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution – is based on her new book with the same title. The book’s thesis is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. And since context blindness—or caetextia in Latin—is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior, people with autism may be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. Phenomena such as cancel culture, trigger warnings, and safe spaces are early signs. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not because we are context blind. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us: Homo caetextus.

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Manipulación ideológica en redes sociales: acoso, engaño y violencia en el entorno digital

Este artículo explora el fenómeno de asunción de identidades en las redes sociales y la influencia que tiene la inteligencia artificial (bots) para que agentes externos logren tomar ventaja de los momentos de vulnerabilidad de diversos sujetos. El tema se aborda desde la perspectiva que ofrecen los estudios de Jacques Lacan y René Girard, con el enfoque de la ecología de medios. La investigación se fundamenta en un análisis particular de manipulación en Twitter en torno del caso de la caravana migrante de 2018 y la propagación del discurso de odio.

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Aquí comparto la liga completa al artículo: https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/18523/7081

Para citar este artículo / to reference this paper / para citar este artigo
Gaal, J. C., Gutiérrez, F. y Miranda, Ó. (2022). Manipulación ideológica en redes sociales: acoso, engaño y violencia en el entorno digital. Palabra Clave, 25(3), e2539. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2022.25.3.9

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What Else Have We Learned from the Media During the Pandemic?

In this presentation, I explore some of the effects observed by the excessive use of media due –in part– to the restrictions imposed by the Health Authorities as a consequence of an uncontrolled pandemic. The great diversity of media; the almost null control of them by the government; the strong dependence we show on them; and the limited understanding of their structure and syntax; generate a complex and adverse panorama for people who cannot assimilate everything they receive through these channels.

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Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election

I share this text, derived from the Digital Equity project, in which we work with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the Tecnológico de Monterrey. My thanks to Brandie Nonnecke and Camille Crittenden of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute for their guidance and invaluable support.

Harass, mislead, & polarize...

This study investigates the interaction and messaging tactics of political Twitter bots before an election. We analyzed the strategies of influential bots seeking to affect the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Our findings reveal that the 10 most influential bots in our dataset all presented an anti-immigration viewpoint, and both posted original tweets and retweeted other bot accounts’ tweets to give a false sense of authenticity and anti-immigration consensus. Bots’ messages relied heavily on negative emotional appeals by spreading harassing language and disinformation likely intended to evoke fear toward immigrants. Such accounts also employed polarizing language to entrench political group identity and provoke partisanship. Our findings help to understand the interaction and messaging tactics employed by political bots and suggest potential strategies that may be employed to counter their effectiveness.

This text is freely accessible and may be consulted at the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19331681.2021.2004287

Brandie Nonnecke, Gisela Perez de Acha, Annette Choi, Camille Crittenden, Fernando Ignacio Gutiérrez Cortés, Alejandro Martin Del Campo & Oscar Mario Miranda-Villanueva (2021) Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.2004287

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Futuribles de la educación post contingencia. Una aproximación desde la ecología de medios

El presente texto deriva de una exposición realizada en el marco del En- cuentro Online Futuribles 2020, que tuvo lugar el 24 de julio de 2020, y fue organizado por la Cátedra Itinerante de la Nueva Teoría Estratégica (CINTE) y el Foro Iberoamericano sobre Estrategias de Comunicación (FISEC). Las ideas contenidas en este documento fueron compartidas concretamente en el panel denominado “Futuribles de la educación post contingencia”.

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El libro completo lleva el nombre: Encuentro Digital Futuribles 2020. Estrategias de comunicación para la postcontingencia y fue coordinado por Amaia Arribas, Raúl Herrera y Octavio Islas, bajo el sello editorial Razón y Palabra.

Forma de citado: Gutiérrez, F. (2021). Futuribles de la educación post contingencia. Una aproximación desde la ecología de medios. En Arribas, A., Herrera, R., e Islas, O. (Coords.) Encuentro Digital Futuribles 2020. Estrategias de comunicación para la postcontingencia. pp. 24-38 Sello Editorial Razón y Palabra. (ISBN: 978-9942-40-802-0)

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