La plataformización de la web transformó la organización de las prácticas sociales, entre ellas l... more La plataformización de la web transformó la organización de las prácticas sociales, entre ellas las que responden a la violación de los derechos humanos de grupos marginados. A través de un estudio comparado entre protestas sociales que surgieron en 2014 por el abuso policial en contra de jóvenes excluidos de la esfera pública –la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa en México y el asesinato de Michael Brown en Estados Unidos; que engrosó las demandas del movimiento Black Lives Matter– se pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las dinámicas de participación ciudadana que, como conversaciones políticas, se materializan en la plataforma YouTube. Se utilizaron diferentes métodos digitales para el análisis de un corpus de 1,451 vídeos que se subieron durante el primer año de las manifestaciones. Una parte del estudio propone un Índice de participación con base en los comentarios para intentar escapar de la lógica transaccional de la plataforma expuesta en las vistas. Otra p...
Mexico's current violent scenarios impulse the search for peace culture building with has... more Mexico's current violent scenarios impulse the search for peace culture building with haste. However, the Mexican paradox lies in its low ranking of negative peace – ranked in place 152 out of 162 measured countries-while constantly ranking in the 65th place in the index for positive peace. This is the motivating data to start research on peace and violence perception of our students, firstly by understanding positive peace as the capacity of societies to be resilient enough to not undergo in escalating violence spirals and secondly under this assumption pointing out the need to clarify, strengthen and potentialize the aforementioned peace. This work will present the results of a study about peace and violence through 350 polled high school and university students. The general scheme of the poll was done through multiple choice closed questions regarding negative peace (understood as the mere absence of violence) and positive peace (understood as the full display of human life). Two open-ended questions linked with peace were included as well. The first open-ended question was " what does peace mean to you and why is it important for you to think about it? " This question was crossed with multiple variables such as age, gender, word reiterations in opinions, as well as with the closed multiple choice questions complement. The second open-ended question was " what can you do to build peace? " This question was intend to measure the perceived agency that students had about themselves in the peace building process. These answers, albeit being important to collect their opinions, was also intended to include their participation in the formation process, therefore inscribing said results in a theoretical framework linked with the ethics of virtue to allow feedback. Hence, 350 students were involved in a dialogue with their teachers regarding each group's governing virtue and contrasting it with other virtues that can be applied to the peace cultures boding process. keywords: ethics of virtue, peace culture building, resilience.
2021 World Engineering Education Forum/Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF/GEDC)
We present an exploratory study that aims to diagnose the Engineering in Computational Technologi... more We present an exploratory study that aims to diagnose the Engineering in Computational Technologies students' level of awareness with respect to the impact of the accelerated use of technology and the exponential growth that private socio-digital platforms have in everyday life because of the COVID-19 confinement. We research possible deterministic postures in the students' positions that could impede their ethical analysis of the social and environmental effects of the advance of data capitalism, among which racialization, algorithmic sexualization, and discrimination, as well as the erosion of the Commons on the Internet, stand out. The theoretical approach comes from a decolonial ethical framework, and the methodology of this study is qualitative. It consists of, in the first phase of the implementation, two focus groups with engineering students between the ages of 19 and 22 from different semesters and genders. In a second phase, we include eight in-depth interviews with professors from the School of Engineering and the School of Humanities who teach disciplinary and general education subjects in two campuses of a private university in Mexico.
This article seeks to understand how Latin American feminist public expression has gained algorit... more This article seeks to understand how Latin American feminist public expression has gained algorithm-mediated visibility on social media. To this end, a cross-platform analysis was conducted for two issues: the legalisation of abortion in Argentina and the struggle to eliminate violence against women. The data were collected on four platforms: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube through the representative hashtags, ‘#abortolegal2020’, ‘#25N’, and ‘#niunamenos’. Digital critical methods were employed to gather data and approach high-visibility users, visual messages, and hashtagging practices. The findings reveal two configurations of algorithmic mediated visibility, formed by assemblages of actors, formats, and knowledge: platform vernaculars and algorithmic resistance. Both result in a mutual shaping between platforms, seeking to impose a quantitative logic of visibility, and feminist actors, using the tactics of algorithmic resistance to give visibility to the content, aestheti...
Se estudia la manera en que el corrido mexicano que circula en YouTube, en tanto modalidad híbrid... more Se estudia la manera en que el corrido mexicano que circula en YouTube, en tanto modalidad híbrida de cultura popular subalterna para la construcción de memoria colectiva, se incorpora al repertorio subversivo de las protestas transnacionales contemporáneas por la justicia social. A partir del caso de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa, y basados en la teoría narrativa de Paul Ricoeur, se identifican elementos de permanencia y cambio en las formas de agencia cultural que surgen de las apropiaciones digitales del corrido que proveen de memorias alternativas al discurso oficial. // This article studies the inclusion of Mexican corridos to the subversive repertoire of contemporary transnational mobilisations claiming for social justice. Considered a hybrid genre of subaltern popular culture for the construction of collective memory, and based on Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory, we explore digital corridos in YouTube produced apropos of the mass disappearance of the 43 students in Ayotzin...
Para citar este artículo/to reference this article/para citar este artigo Lugo, N., Melón, M.E. &... more Para citar este artículo/to reference this article/para citar este artigo Lugo, N., Melón, M.E. & Castillo M. C. 2017. La representación del autismo en las narrativas de fan fiction.net: los espacios de afinidad como oportunidad para la negociación de sentido. Palabra Clave 20(4), 948-978. Abstract Representation of autism in mass media has, over time, maintained the stereotypes that permeate medical discourse. This article has the objective of investigating whether or not there are alternative representations in affinity spaces such as fanfiction. net. In order to explore this idea, a mixed composite study was carried out of a quantitative analysis of 197 fanfictions found on the platform in November 2016 containing the word autism, in which reading popularity indicators such as subscribers, favorites and number of comments were measured. Finally, a qualitative analysis was carried out of the most relevant text according to popularity and content. This analysis focused on the fan fiction 'Different, not Defective', belonging to the fandom of Harry Potter, and an analysis of the 863 comments made on the text. The results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces where therapists, family members and individuals within the autism spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a significant potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, and that this could be extended to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is the orcid.org/0000-0002-1334-7914. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. nlugo@tec.mx 1 orcid.org//0000-0002-9355-906X. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. mmelon@tec.mx 2 orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-9079. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. ccastill@tec.mx 3
This article studies the inclusion of Mexican corridos to the subversive repertoire of contempora... more This article studies the inclusion of Mexican corridos to the subversive repertoire of contemporary transnational mobilisations claiming for social justice. Considered a hybrid genre of subaltern popular culture for the construction of collective memory, and based on Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory, we explore digital corridos in YouTube produced apropos of the mass disappearance of the 43 students in Ayotzinapa. Accordingly, we analyse to what extent digital appropriations of corridos create forms of cultural agency, providing alternative memories to official discourses.
Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse... more Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse over time. This paper aims to investigate about the existence of alternate representations in affinity spaces like fanfiction.net. For this purpose, we conducted a mixed composite study of a quantitative analysis of 197 fanfictions found in the platform in November 2016 under the tag autism, in which reading popularity indicators such as subscribers, bookmarks and number of comments were measured. We then conducted a qualitative analysis of the most relevant text according to popularity and content. This analysis focused on the fanfiction Different, Not Defective, from the Harry Potter fandom, and the analysis of the 863 comments. Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.
El objetivo del artículo es explicar la disputa y relaciones de poder articuladas a través del s... more El objetivo del artículo es explicar la disputa y relaciones de poder articuladas a través del storytelling como herramienta y práctica social con una aproximación desde los Estudios culturales. Se contrastó el storytelling de grupos de la sociedad civil con el del gobierno en la plataforma YouTube sobre el caso de des-apariciones forzadas en Ayotzinapa México entre septiembre y diciembre de 2014. El análisis comparativo permitió palpar la lucha por la representación, las contra-dicciones del gobierno mexicano y los desencuentros entre ambos actores sobre un caso histórico de violación a los derechos fundamentales. Se discuten las posibilidades y limitantes del storytelling para organizar la protesta, para el cambio social, así como para la transformación positiva y pacífica de los conflictos. Asimismo se reflexiona sobre la utilidad de las herramientas de curación de contenidos en redes sociales para la investigación en ciencias sociales.
La plataformización de la web transformó la organización de las prácticas sociales, entre ellas l... more La plataformización de la web transformó la organización de las prácticas sociales, entre ellas las que responden a la violación de los derechos humanos de grupos marginados. A través de un estudio comparado entre protestas sociales que surgieron en 2014 por el abuso policial en contra de jóvenes excluidos de la esfera pública –la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa en México y el asesinato de Michael Brown en Estados Unidos; que engrosó las demandas del movimiento Black Lives Matter– se pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las dinámicas de participación ciudadana que, como conversaciones políticas, se materializan en la plataforma YouTube. Se utilizaron diferentes métodos digitales para el análisis de un corpus de 1,451 vídeos que se subieron durante el primer año de las manifestaciones. Una parte del estudio propone un Índice de participación con base en los comentarios para intentar escapar de la lógica transaccional de la plataforma expuesta en las vistas. Otra p...
Mexico's current violent scenarios impulse the search for peace culture building with has... more Mexico's current violent scenarios impulse the search for peace culture building with haste. However, the Mexican paradox lies in its low ranking of negative peace – ranked in place 152 out of 162 measured countries-while constantly ranking in the 65th place in the index for positive peace. This is the motivating data to start research on peace and violence perception of our students, firstly by understanding positive peace as the capacity of societies to be resilient enough to not undergo in escalating violence spirals and secondly under this assumption pointing out the need to clarify, strengthen and potentialize the aforementioned peace. This work will present the results of a study about peace and violence through 350 polled high school and university students. The general scheme of the poll was done through multiple choice closed questions regarding negative peace (understood as the mere absence of violence) and positive peace (understood as the full display of human life). Two open-ended questions linked with peace were included as well. The first open-ended question was " what does peace mean to you and why is it important for you to think about it? " This question was crossed with multiple variables such as age, gender, word reiterations in opinions, as well as with the closed multiple choice questions complement. The second open-ended question was " what can you do to build peace? " This question was intend to measure the perceived agency that students had about themselves in the peace building process. These answers, albeit being important to collect their opinions, was also intended to include their participation in the formation process, therefore inscribing said results in a theoretical framework linked with the ethics of virtue to allow feedback. Hence, 350 students were involved in a dialogue with their teachers regarding each group's governing virtue and contrasting it with other virtues that can be applied to the peace cultures boding process. keywords: ethics of virtue, peace culture building, resilience.
2021 World Engineering Education Forum/Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF/GEDC)
We present an exploratory study that aims to diagnose the Engineering in Computational Technologi... more We present an exploratory study that aims to diagnose the Engineering in Computational Technologies students' level of awareness with respect to the impact of the accelerated use of technology and the exponential growth that private socio-digital platforms have in everyday life because of the COVID-19 confinement. We research possible deterministic postures in the students' positions that could impede their ethical analysis of the social and environmental effects of the advance of data capitalism, among which racialization, algorithmic sexualization, and discrimination, as well as the erosion of the Commons on the Internet, stand out. The theoretical approach comes from a decolonial ethical framework, and the methodology of this study is qualitative. It consists of, in the first phase of the implementation, two focus groups with engineering students between the ages of 19 and 22 from different semesters and genders. In a second phase, we include eight in-depth interviews with professors from the School of Engineering and the School of Humanities who teach disciplinary and general education subjects in two campuses of a private university in Mexico.
This article seeks to understand how Latin American feminist public expression has gained algorit... more This article seeks to understand how Latin American feminist public expression has gained algorithm-mediated visibility on social media. To this end, a cross-platform analysis was conducted for two issues: the legalisation of abortion in Argentina and the struggle to eliminate violence against women. The data were collected on four platforms: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube through the representative hashtags, ‘#abortolegal2020’, ‘#25N’, and ‘#niunamenos’. Digital critical methods were employed to gather data and approach high-visibility users, visual messages, and hashtagging practices. The findings reveal two configurations of algorithmic mediated visibility, formed by assemblages of actors, formats, and knowledge: platform vernaculars and algorithmic resistance. Both result in a mutual shaping between platforms, seeking to impose a quantitative logic of visibility, and feminist actors, using the tactics of algorithmic resistance to give visibility to the content, aestheti...
Se estudia la manera en que el corrido mexicano que circula en YouTube, en tanto modalidad híbrid... more Se estudia la manera en que el corrido mexicano que circula en YouTube, en tanto modalidad híbrida de cultura popular subalterna para la construcción de memoria colectiva, se incorpora al repertorio subversivo de las protestas transnacionales contemporáneas por la justicia social. A partir del caso de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa, y basados en la teoría narrativa de Paul Ricoeur, se identifican elementos de permanencia y cambio en las formas de agencia cultural que surgen de las apropiaciones digitales del corrido que proveen de memorias alternativas al discurso oficial. // This article studies the inclusion of Mexican corridos to the subversive repertoire of contemporary transnational mobilisations claiming for social justice. Considered a hybrid genre of subaltern popular culture for the construction of collective memory, and based on Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory, we explore digital corridos in YouTube produced apropos of the mass disappearance of the 43 students in Ayotzin...
Para citar este artículo/to reference this article/para citar este artigo Lugo, N., Melón, M.E. &... more Para citar este artículo/to reference this article/para citar este artigo Lugo, N., Melón, M.E. & Castillo M. C. 2017. La representación del autismo en las narrativas de fan fiction.net: los espacios de afinidad como oportunidad para la negociación de sentido. Palabra Clave 20(4), 948-978. Abstract Representation of autism in mass media has, over time, maintained the stereotypes that permeate medical discourse. This article has the objective of investigating whether or not there are alternative representations in affinity spaces such as fanfiction. net. In order to explore this idea, a mixed composite study was carried out of a quantitative analysis of 197 fanfictions found on the platform in November 2016 containing the word autism, in which reading popularity indicators such as subscribers, favorites and number of comments were measured. Finally, a qualitative analysis was carried out of the most relevant text according to popularity and content. This analysis focused on the fan fiction 'Different, not Defective', belonging to the fandom of Harry Potter, and an analysis of the 863 comments made on the text. The results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces where therapists, family members and individuals within the autism spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a significant potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, and that this could be extended to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is the orcid.org/0000-0002-1334-7914. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. nlugo@tec.mx 1 orcid.org//0000-0002-9355-906X. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. mmelon@tec.mx 2 orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-9079. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. ccastill@tec.mx 3
This article studies the inclusion of Mexican corridos to the subversive repertoire of contempora... more This article studies the inclusion of Mexican corridos to the subversive repertoire of contemporary transnational mobilisations claiming for social justice. Considered a hybrid genre of subaltern popular culture for the construction of collective memory, and based on Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory, we explore digital corridos in YouTube produced apropos of the mass disappearance of the 43 students in Ayotzinapa. Accordingly, we analyse to what extent digital appropriations of corridos create forms of cultural agency, providing alternative memories to official discourses.
Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse... more Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse over time. This paper aims to investigate about the existence of alternate representations in affinity spaces like fanfiction.net. For this purpose, we conducted a mixed composite study of a quantitative analysis of 197 fanfictions found in the platform in November 2016 under the tag autism, in which reading popularity indicators such as subscribers, bookmarks and number of comments were measured. We then conducted a qualitative analysis of the most relevant text according to popularity and content. This analysis focused on the fanfiction Different, Not Defective, from the Harry Potter fandom, and the analysis of the 863 comments. Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.
El objetivo del artículo es explicar la disputa y relaciones de poder articuladas a través del s... more El objetivo del artículo es explicar la disputa y relaciones de poder articuladas a través del storytelling como herramienta y práctica social con una aproximación desde los Estudios culturales. Se contrastó el storytelling de grupos de la sociedad civil con el del gobierno en la plataforma YouTube sobre el caso de des-apariciones forzadas en Ayotzinapa México entre septiembre y diciembre de 2014. El análisis comparativo permitió palpar la lucha por la representación, las contra-dicciones del gobierno mexicano y los desencuentros entre ambos actores sobre un caso histórico de violación a los derechos fundamentales. Se discuten las posibilidades y limitantes del storytelling para organizar la protesta, para el cambio social, así como para la transformación positiva y pacífica de los conflictos. Asimismo se reflexiona sobre la utilidad de las herramientas de curación de contenidos en redes sociales para la investigación en ciencias sociales.
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Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces
where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.
Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces
where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.