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'Abundance' examines the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before. It focuses on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, the book concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.

Boczkowski, P. J. (2000). Del Laboratorio a la Ciudad: Wiebe Bijker habla de la evolución de los Estudios Sociales de la Tecnología. Redes 7(16), 89-106. ; Wiebe Bijker es un ingeniero heterodoxo y, parafraseando a John Law, heterogéneo. Si entendemos la ingeniería en sentido amplio como el uso del conocimiento y la experimentación para la creación de objetos socialmente útiles, la trayectoria de Bijker es ciertamente "ingenieril" –tal como se manifiesta en la construcción de entidades tan diversas como planes de reforma curricular para la educación media, colecciones editoriales, programas transnacionales de posgrado, disciplinas académicas, movimientos políticos, manuales de Física para alumnos de escuela secundaria y textos sociológicos–. En el medio de tanta heterodoxia y heterogeneidad ha habido al menos un elemento constante: la pasión –y tal vez la obsesión– por democratizar la tecnología a través de mostrar que su rigidez es el resultado de procesos sociales "endurecidos" usualmente disfrazados bajo justificaciones técnicas, y por ende capaces de ser modificados en las condiciones apropiadas. Su peregrinar por ocupaciones y campos del conocimiento lo encontró como pionero de la llamada "Nueva Sociología de la Tecnología" a principios de la década del ochenta. La conversación que a continuación presentamos repasa tanto los cambios que desde entonces han tenido lugar en su pensamiento acerca de los estudios sociales de la tecnología, como las direcciones en que el mismo comienza a proyectarse en el futuro. ; Wiebe Bijker is an unorthodox and, paraphrasing John Law, heterogeneous engineer. If we understand engineering in a broad sense as the use of knowledge and experimentation for the creation of socially useful objects, then Bijker's career is certainly an engineering one--as can be seen in the construction of entities as diverse as political movements, Physics textbooks, graduate programs, high school curricula, academic disciplines, and sociological writings. However, in the midst of so much diversity there has been at least one constant element: his passion--and perhaps obsession?--to democratize technology by showing that its rigidity is the result of hardened social processes usually disguised as technical motives, thus open to social reconstruction. His forays into occupations and scientific fields found himself pioneering the so-called New Sociology of Technology at the dawn of the eighties. In this conversation, Bijker reflects on the evolution of the social studies of technology since then, and comments on his current research.

Boczkowski, P. J. (1997). Ciencia sin cajas negras y política sin experimentos repetibles: conversando con Bruno Latour sobre ciencia y política en los tiempos de la vaca loca. Redes, 4(9), 141-152. ; Bruno Latour ha sido uno de los pioneros de los estudios de la ciencia dentro de la llamada "nueva sociología" del conocimiento. Su libro escrito en colaboración con Steve Woolgar –La vida de laboratorio– ha sido uno de los primeros aportes para comprender las prácticas científicas desarrolladas "intramuros", trabajo que se continuó en su obra La ciencia en acción. A partir de las consideraciones expresadas en Nunca hemos sido modernos (publicado en francés en 1991), Latour comienza a interesarse sobre otros problemas: la sociología de la vida cotidiana y sobre los "híbridos" y la relación de los humanos con los no humanos. En la entrevista que presentamos explica su nueva orientación, continuación de sus últimas reflexiones, en donde redimensiona las relaciones entre ciencia y política, negando por un lado y afirmando por otro (fiel a su estilo) el papel de los estudios de la ciencia. ; Bruno Latour has been one of the pioneers of science studies within the so-called "new sociology" of knowledge. His book, La vida de laboratorio, co-authored by Steve Woolgar, has been one of the first contributions that help to understand scientific practices developed "from w ithin" an organization, a task he continued in his La ciencia en accion. Starting from the ideas expressed in Nunca fuimos modernos (published in French, in 1991), Latour develops an interest in other problems: the sociology of everyday life and the "hybrids" and their relation to humans and non-humans. In this interview Latour explains his new approach, a continuation of his last reflections. In it he adds a new scaling to the relations between science and politics, on the one hand (true to his style) the role of science studies, and on other endorsing them.

Nations, media, and platforms -- Part 1. Foundations -- Cross-national and regional comparisons -- Cross-media comparisons -- Cross-platform comparisons -- Part 2. Pathways -- Histories -- Languages -- Blurred genres, trading zones and heterogeneous inquiries.

Introduction / Pablo J. Boczkowski & Zizi Papacharissi -- Journalism in question. Why journalism in the age of Trump shouldn't surprise us / Barbie Zelizer -- Alternative facts: Donald Trump and the emergence of a new U.S. media regime / Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Trump and the great disruption in public communication / Silvio Waisbord, Tina Tucker, and Zoey Lichtenheld -- Empirical failures: data journalism, cultural identity, and the Trump campaign / Chris W. Anderson -- My very own alternative facts about journalism / Michael Schudson -- Who's playing who? media manipulation in an era of Trump / Robyn Caplan and Danah Boyd -- Lessons from the paparazzi: rethinking photojournalistic coverage of Trump / Andrew l. Mendelson -- Emotion, populism, and media events. The importance of being a headline / Zizi Papacharissi -- Public displays of disaffection: the emotional politics of Donald Trump / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen -- Facts (almost) never win over myths / Julia Sonnevend -- The media are about identity, not information / Daniel Kreiss -- Anticipating news: what Trump teaches us about how the networked press can and should imagine / Mike Ananny -- Media projections and Trump's election: a self-defeating prophecy? / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt -- Creeping toward authoritarianism? / Katy E. Pearce -- Why technology matters. The potential of networked solidarity: communication at the end of the long twentieth century / Gina Neff -- Breaking the rules of political communication: Trump's successes and miscalculations / Susan J. Douglas -- Trump on Twitter: how a medium designed for democracy became an authoritarian's mouthpiece / Fred Turner -- Tweeting all the way to the White House / Josh Cowls & Ralph Schroeder -- Social media or social inequality: Trump's unexpected election / Keith N. Hampton -- How interactivity can build transparency: what tech can teach us about rebuilding media trust / Nikki Usher -- Pathways ahead. The center of the universe no more: from the self-centered stance of the past to the relational mindset of the future / Pablo J. Boczkowski & Seth C. Lewis -- Trump, journalists, and social networks of trust / Sue Robinson -- When commercialism trumps democracy: media pathologies and the rise of the misinformation society / Victor Pickard -- Making journalism great again: Trump and the new rise of news activism / Adrienne Russell -- The case for campaign journalism / Rodney Benson -- We all stand together or we all fall apart: on the need for an adversarial press in the age of Trump / Dave Karpf

This paper presents an analysis of the existing literature on social networks in Ibero-America, with the objective of organizing the main topics covered, highlighting findings, and proposing future research paths. The four thematic areas that stand out are political communication and electronic government; journalism and traditional media; social groups (including adolescents and young people, those marginalized, women, entrepreneurs and influencers, students, and older adults) and areas of use (including commerce, tourism, education, health, professional communication); and political and civic participation. In addition, we review the literature from the perspective of the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat) and from the geographical regions and countries that make up Ibero-America, to observe similarities and differences. We conclude with the mention and analysis of the two most outstanding patterns of the studies examined: 1) a tendency to expect from the networks a transformative potential that is not necessarily proven, especially in the case of political communication and journalism; 2) transformative capacity of networks in the areas of tourism, education and health, in which traditional media have not been characterized by having a prominent role. Finally, we propose some paths for future studies, among them the pursuit of comparative works, the incorporation of relational perspectives in the treatment of networks, the addition of mixed, experimental and computational methodologies, and the consideration, from the research design standpoint, of the acceleration of technological change and the need to generate questions and conceptualizations capable of surviving the passage of time.

During the administration of Argentina's president Cristina Fernández (2007‒2015), the government developed a confrontational stance toward news organizations that it perceived to be against it, usually labeling them "opposition media." This has also been the case in other countries in the region and in other parts of the world. This article examines the consequences of this confrontation on the news agenda and the preferences of the audience. Findings from a panel survey and content analysis of three news organizations usually labeled opposition media indicate that the agendas of the news outlets and their respective most viewed stories diverged substantively in their thematic preferences. Different opposition media and their audiences behaved in a heterogeneous fashion. Interviews with members of the audience underscore the role of ideology in mediating the impact of government–media relations. Drawing on these findings, we contribute to middle-range theorizing of government–media relationships and reflect on their implications for the dynamics of journalism and political communication.

This article analyzes recent research on the newspaper crisis. It discusses how authors have examined the sources, manifestations, and implications of this crisis, and the proposals to resolve it. In addition, the essay critically examines this body of work by assessing the main spatial and temporal contexts that researchers have studied, the theories and methods that authors employ, and the analytical tropes they have deployed to make sense of the crisis. Building on this assessment of existing research, the article outlines an agenda for future work that fosters an analysis of the process, history, comparative development, and manifold implications of this crisis, and advances various empirical strategies to examine some of its most under-theorized dimensions.

This article assesses the main findings and dominant modes of inquiry in recent scholarship on online news consumption. The findings suggest that the consumption of news on the internet has not yet differed drastically from the consumption of news in traditional media. The assessment shows that the dominant modes of inquiry have also been characterized by stability rather than change (because research has usually drawn on traditional theoretical and methodological approaches). In addition, these modes of inquiry exhibit three systematic limitations: the assumption of a division between print, broadcast, and online media; the notion that the analysis should treat media features and social practices separately; and the inclination to focus on ordinary or extraordinary patterns of phenomena but not on both at the same time. On the basis of this assessment, this article proposes an integrative research agenda that builds on this scholarship but also contributes to solve some of its main limitations.