Connective life. Digital networks as sociotechnical mirrors of Ibero-America

ABSTRACT

Connective life has accelerated since 2020, when the covid-19 pandemic began, which contributed to intensify some digitization processes that have been underway for decades. This connective life also presents new challenges, such as surveillance capitalism, the attention economy, and contingent intellects, formed by powerful persuasive algorithms. In this context, the 147th edition of Chasqui is proposed as an Ibero-American transnational digital culture observatory. To do this, we have selected 10 articles that reveal significant networks, and in which user behaviors are studied;Ibero-American habits, uses and customs are mapped on social networks;Forms of organization in the consumption, production and circulation of content are described;techniques and content used to manipulate information and opinion are analyzed;describe and identify themselves in ways of spreading false news and hate speech;and new theoretical proposals are presented to understand Latin America through the analysis and reading of fields such as big data, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, or data analysis and visualization systems.