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Universidad de Costa Rica: San Jose, CR

2001 to present | Professor Technology & Media Studies (School of Communication)
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Ignacio Siles

Education and qualifications (2)

Northwestern University: Evanston, IL, US

2008 to 2014 | PhD in Media, Technology and Society (Communication Studies)
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Ignacio Siles

Université de Montréal: Montréal, Québec, CA

2001 to 2004 | M.Sc in Communication (Communication Studies)
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Ignacio Siles

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Rewatching Content on Streaming Platforms: The Pursuit of Ontological Comfort

Media and Communication
2025-02-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Rodrigo Muñoz-González; Luciana Valerio-Alfaro; Vanessa Valiati
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Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America

International Journal of Cultural Studies
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Vanessa Valiati; Luciana Valerio-Alfaro; Amanda Ferreira
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Algorithms as facts and fabrications: ethnographic stories of factishes from the Costa Rican Caribbean

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
2024-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Edgar Gómez-Cruz; Rodrigo Muñoz-González
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How Migrants Experience Information Uncertainty and Vulnerability: Lessons for (Dis)information Studies

Social Media + Society
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; María Fernanda Salas; Silvio Waisbord
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Learning to like TikTok . . . and not: Algorithm awareness as process

New Media & Society
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Luciana Valerio-Alfaro; Ariana Meléndez-Moran
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Populism and social media campaigning in Central America

2024-09-18 | Book chapter
Contributors: María Fernanda Salas; Erica Guevara; Ignacio Siles
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Fluid agency in relation to algorithms: Tensions, mediations, and transversalities

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Edgar Gómez-Cruz; Paola Ricaurte
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Rumo a uma teoria popular de algoritmos

Revista Mídia e Cotidiano
2024-05-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Edagar Gómez-Cruz; Paola Ricaurte
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Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism

Big Data & Society
2024-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Paola Ricaurte; Edgar Gómez-Cruz; Ignacio Siles
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The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Arturo Arriagada; Ignacio Siles
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Beyond the tropicalization of concepts: theorizing digital realities with and from the Global South (introduction to a special issue)

Communication, Culture & Critique
2023-12-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Edgar Gómez-Cruz; Heather Horst; Ignacio Siles; Cheryll Soriano
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Pandemic populism and permanent campaigning: How Central American presidents build political legitimacy on Facebook

International Communication Gazette
2023-11 | Journal article
Contributors: María Fernanda Salas; Ignacio Siles
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How using various platforms shapes awareness of algorithms

Behaviour & Information Technology
2023-07-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Johan Espinoza-Rojas; Ignacio Siles; Thomas Castelain
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Un futuro lejano pero inminente: imaginarios de periodistas costarricenses sobre la inteligencia artificial

Textual & Visual Media
2023-06-28 | Journal article
Contributors: María Fernanda Salas; Ignacio Siles; Carolina Carazo
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Nuestras apps de cada día: Informe sobre el uso de plataformas digitales en Costa Rica (2023)

Centro de Investigación en Comunicación
2023-04-26 | Report
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Populism, Religion, and Social Media in Central America

The International Journal of Press/Politics
2023-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Erica Guevara; Larissa Tristán-Jiménez; Carolina Carazo
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The Mechanisms of “Incidental News Consumption”

2023-01-24 | Book chapter
Contributors: Adrián Vergara; Ignacio Siles; Ana Claudia Castro; Alonso Chaves
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Toward a popular theory of algorithms

Popular Communication
2023-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Edgar Gómez-Cruz; Paola Ricaurte
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romance en la era del streaming: Estrategias de oferta y consumo de contenidos en Netflix

Comunicación y Género
2022-12-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Yanet Martinez-Toledo; Ignacio Siles-González; Ariana Meléndez-Morán
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Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America

Journal of Cultural Economy
2022-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Amy Ross Arguedas; Mónica Sancho; Ricardo Solís-Quesada
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Individual Evaluation vs Fact-checking in the Recognition and Willingness to Share Fake News About Covid-19 via Whatsapp

Journalism Studies
2022-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Carlos M. Brenes Peralta; Rolando Pérez Sánchez; Ignacio Siles González
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Psychosocial predictors of fake news exposure and diffusion in Costa Rica

Cuadernos.info
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Peralta, Carlos Brenes; Perez Sanchez, Rolando; Siles Gonzalez, Ignacio
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Visual Communication in Practice: A Texto-Material Approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City

International Journal of Communication
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Gomez-Cruz, Edgar; Siles, Ignacio
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Verdad en extinción: Miradas interdisciplinarias a la desinformación en Costa Rica

CICOM
2021-11-01 | Book
Contributors: Ignacio Siles
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Visual Communication in Practice: A Texto-Material Approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City

International Journal of Communication
2021-10-15 | Journal article
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Predictores psicosociales de la exposición y difusión de noticias falsas en Costa Rica

Cuadernos.info
2021-05-26 | Journal article
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Savoirs incertains. Étudier « complots » et « vérités » à l’ère numérique

RESET
2021-05-20 | Journal article
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Ignacio Siles

Uncertain Knowledge. Studying “Truth” and “Conspiracies” in the Digital Age

RESET
2021-05-20 | Journal article
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Facebook as “third space”: Triggers of political talk in news about nonpublic affairs

Journal of Information Technology & Politics
2021-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Larissa Tristán-Jiménez
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Populism, Media, and Misinformation in Latin America

The Routledge Companion to Media Misinformation and Populism
2021-03 | Book chapter
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Ignacio Siles

En palabras de los candidatos: la comunicación en redes sociales durante la campaña electoral costarricense de 2018

Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos
2021-02 | Journal article
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Ignacio Siles

The Mechanisms of “Incidental News Consumption”: an Eye Tracking Study of News Interaction on Facebook

Digital Journalism
2021-02-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Adrián Vergara; Ignacio Siles; Ana Claudia Castro; Alonso Chaves
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DIGITAL CULTURES

Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Cruz, Edgar Gomez; Siles, Ignacio
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Plataformas digitales y precarización laboral en Costa Rica: El caso de Uber

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
2020-12 | Report
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Prácticas y dinámicas de creación de memes en Costa Rica

Virtualis
2020-12 | Journal article
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A Transnational History of the Internet in Central America, 1985–2000

Palgrave Macmillan
2020-07-25 | Book
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Democracia en digital

CICOM
2020-03 | Book
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Digital Cultures

The Routledge handbook to the cultures and media of the Americas
2020-03 | Book chapter
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El “matrimonio gay” como tema electoral en Costa Rica

Democracia en digital: Facebook, comunicación y política en Costa Rica,
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Entre “brechas” y “cuotas” informativas

Democracia en digital: Facebook, comunicación y política en Costa Rica
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Facebook como “tercer espacio”

Democracia en digital: Facebook, comunicación y política en Costa Rica
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Introducción

Democracia en digital: Facebook, comunicación y política en Costa Rica
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Ignacio Siles

La lectura de textos multimodales en el uso de redes sociales

Comprensión y discurso: Del movimiento ocular al procesamiento cognitivo
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Lectura de memes y noticias en Facebook

Democracia en digital: Facebook, comunicación y política en Costa Rica
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South

Big Data & Society
2020-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Andrés Segura-Castillo; Ricardo Solís; Mónica Sancho
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Blogs and bloggers

The SAGE international encyclopedia of mass media and society
2019-12 | Book chapter
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The Mutual Domestication of Users and Algorithmic Recommendations on Netflix

Communication, Culture and Critique
2019-09-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Johan Espinoza-Rojas; Adrián Naranjo; María Fernanda Tristán
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Comunicación y política en clave digital

Tiempos de travesía: Análisis de las elecciones del 2018 en Costa Rica
2019-08-01 | Book chapter
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Genres as Social Affect: Cultivating Moods and Emotions through Playlists on Spotify

Social Media + Society
2019-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ignacio Siles; Andrés Segura-Castillo; Mónica Sancho; Ricardo Solís-Quesada
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Introducción

Tecnología e innovación en Costa Rica: Repensando la comunicación en la era digital
2019-02 | Book chapter
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Peer review (58 reviews for 19 publications/grants)

Review activity for AI & society. (1)
Review activity for Behaviour & information technology. (5)
Review activity for Big data & society. (8)
Review activity for Chinese journal of communication. (1)
Review activity for Convergence (4)
Review activity for Digital journalism. (1)
Review activity for Environment and planning. (1)
Review activity for Information systems journal. (2)
Review activity for Information, communication & society. (5)
Review activity for Journalism and media. (1)
Review activity for New media & society (10)
Review activity for Religion, state & society. (1)
Review activity for Social media + society. (7)
Review activity for Sociology compass. (1)
Review activity for Tapuya : (1)
Review activity for Television & new media (3)
Review activity for The communication review. (2)
Review activity for The information society. (2)
Review activity for The international journal of press/politics (2)