Matías Valderrama

Thrilled to see this article with Arturo Arriagada out now. If you’re interested in how the influencer industry works in Chile, have a read :)

Thrilled to share that I was recently interviewed for the Digital Journalism newsletter. Many thanks to the editors — and especially to @tomasdodds.bsky.social — for the opportunity!

(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

New article with @mvaldeb.bsky.social out now in the @jcultecon.bsky.social:

"(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry". shorturl.at/HzPCi

We explore how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure “influence”.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢

05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini

06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite

Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi

Artificial Societies: Confronting Social Engineering after the Techlash hybrid symposium. Part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series.

6 Mar livestream @cdi-warwick.bsky.social buff.ly/0kKfgSJ
7 Mar event buff.ly/QsnXR9J

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Last hours to register for the Artificial Societies Symposium! If you are interested in the social implications of design and engineering in digital settings or the state of the social(s) after the digital, this is the place #sts #digitalmedia #digitalsociology
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Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.

Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes

DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇

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Last days also to register for the Symposium on Artificial Societies The deadline is Friday 28 February. warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Social engineering after the techlash on CDI TV YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick

Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV next Thursday!
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#ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology

Sesión informativa en español - AoIR2025 en Brasil Durante esta sesión informativa vamos a extender una invitación a investigadores e investigadoras de Latinoamérica a participar en la conferencia AoIR2025 (Asociación de Investigadores de Internet, en...

Con @ariadnamf.bsky.social estamos organizando una sesión informativa en español para los y las interesadas en participar en #AoIR2025 — especialmente dirigido a colegas de universidades en LaTam.

Se pueden registrar aquí forms.gle/fhqyrPdrRzWL...

Agradecería que compartan la invitación!

We've extended the deadline ⏳🎉 Submit your abstract now!

Join us in exploring interdisciplinary perspectives on the engineering of the social and digital sociology in contemporary societies. All the info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Deadline extension of the Artificial Societies Symposium

🚨 Deadline Extension Alert! 🚨

We’re excited by the enthusiasm for our Artificial Societies Symposium and want to give more time for submissions! The abstract deadline is now extended to Wednesday, February 5.

Thanks for sharing

The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE)

We are all a bit shell-shocked

But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow

Only two days left to submit your abstracts!

Last days to submit your abstracts!

Removing misinformation classifiers, combined with the changes to hate speech rules, will have a much larger impact on what users see in their feeds than the changes to fact-checking, which are still getting a lot of media attention.

Super excited to share this paper with @noortjem.bsky.social! Very honored to have contributed to this article. If you are interested in how science and expert advice should respond congruently to emergency situations, take a look!

Screenshot from a 2020 BuzzFeed News story that reads: One employee who spoke with BuzzFeed News after the event was not comforted by their CEO’s words. “He seems truly incapable of taking personal responsibility for decisions and actions at Facebook,” they said.

As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting.

This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.

Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick Clegg | Semafor Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.

These people never stop giving material for my thesis. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Non-Public Data Access for Researchers: Challenges in the Draft Delegated Act of the Digital Services Act | TechPolicy.Press The draft delegated act introduces many commendable clarifications and structures, but suffers from a limited conception of empirical research.

The European Commission is accepting feedback on a draft delegated act under the DSA to govern researcher access to platform data. The draft introduces many commendable ideas, but suffers from a limited conception of empirical research, write Lukas Seiling, Ulrike Klinger, and Jakob Ohme.

Around the world, communities are pushing back against data centers. One of the most notable campaigns happened in Cerrillos, Chile.

Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is
@slehuede.bsky.social!

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Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative, even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice.

*waggles eyebrows*

Good.

Greetings, Bluesky!

What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP!

Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025:
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El jueves 28 de Noviembre la gran @NoortjeMarres estará en Lo Contador presentando sobre IA y lo no-humano en el marco del evento Tentacular del @nucleoFAIR, imperdible!

"Internet studies starter pack" 1 is full, so created this second one with folks who just arrived or who I didn't include in the first one. Please follow these folks!

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