Edited By: Avery Plaw, David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel

Routledge 2021

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The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 1.

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on the governmental, economic and security issues and the study of the complex relationship between citizens and government.

The book is divided into three parts:

• ‘Digital data and privacy, prospects and barriers’ centers on the debates among the right of privacy and the loss of intimacy in the Internet,
• ‘Homeland security and human rights’ focuses on how novel technologies such as drones and autonomous weapons systems reconfigure the strategies of police authorities and organized crime,
• ‘Labor Markets, digital media and emerging technologies’ emphasize the legal, economic and social perils and challenges caused by the increased presence of social media, blockchain-based applications, artificial intelligence and automation technologies in the Latin American economy.

This first volume in a two-volume set will be important reading for scholars and students of governance in Latin American, the protection of human rights and the use of technology to combat crime and the new advances of digital economy in the region.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Avery Plaw, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and David Ramírez Plascencia

Part I. Digital data and privacy, prospects and barriers.

Chapter 2. The reception of sexual messages among young Chileans and Uruguayans: Predictive factors and perception of harm.

Amaranta Alfaro, Matías Dodel and Patricio Cabello

Chapter 3. Small Data, Big Data and the Ethical Challenges for a fragmented developing world: Peru’s need for diversity-aware public policies on information technologies and practices.

Hugo Claros

Chapter 4. Open Government, Dilemmas, and Innovation at the Local Level: Comparing the Cases of Austin, Buenos Aires and Madrid.

Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez, Soledad Gattoni and Raymond W. Weyandt

Part II. Homeland security and human rights, a questioned balance?

Chapter 5. Ethical controversies about Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: views of small South American States.

Raúl Salgado Espinoza

Chapter 6. From Sensationalist Media to the Narcocorrido: Drones, Sovereignty, and Exception along the U.S.-Mexican Border.

David S. Dalton

Chapter 7. The process of technologization of the drug war in Mexico.

Avery Plaw, David Ramírez Plascencia and Barbara Carvalho Gurgel

Part. III. Labor Markets, digital media and emerging technologies: potentials and risks.

Chapter 8. Algorithmic Law – A legal framework for Artificial Intelligence in Latin America.

Maximiliano Marzetti

Chapter 9. Automation and Robotization of production in Latin America: problems and challenges for trade unions in the cases of Argentina, Mexico and Chile.

Victoria Basualdo, Graciela Bensusán and Dasten Julián-Vejar

Chapter 10. Using functional and social robots to help during the Covid19 pandemic: Looking into the incipient case of Chile and its future artificial intelligence policy.

Carmina Rodríguez-Hidalgo

Chapter 11. Intellectual property and social media policies for user-generated content: some lessons from Mexico.

Rosa María Alonzo González

Chapter 12. Mining as an Art of Survival in Venezuela: Eluding Scarcity and improving Living Conditions with Bitcoins.

David Ramírez Plascencia

Chapter 13. Conclusions.

Avery Plaw, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and David Ramírez Plascencia

The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 2.

This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen’s perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues and the role of digital journalism in promoting democratic values in Latin America.

The book is divided into three parts:

• ‘Digital Media and Daily Life in Latin America’ explores cases related to the integration of digital media such as mobile devices, social platforms and, even, drones to diverse commercial, private and social activities.
• ‘Information technologies and civic engagement’ gives special attention to the new political practices triggered by the irruption of smartphones and platforms, especially inside organizations and social movements in Latin America.
• ‘Journalism and Media Integrity in the Age of Post-truth’ centers on the study of digital journalism and the new media landscape, and related issues like precarization of labor conditions and the crisis of reliability in media.

This second volume in a two-volume set will be important reading for scholars and students of social use of digital media in Latin America, civic engagement, and the connections between politics, journalism and technology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.

David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw

Part. I. Digital Media and Daily Life in Latin America.

Chapter 2. Drone Ethics and Legal Regulation, Comparative Drone Law in Latin American countries.

Jorge Andrés Cruz Silva and David Andrés Mayorga Naranjo

Chapter 3. Net-narcoculture. Discursive trends on femicide violence and youth culture in the consumption of the narcorap aesthetics versus feminist rap resistances.

Dra. Virginia Villaplana Ruiz and Dra. Alejandra León Olvera

Chapter 4. COVID-19 Confinement-related Mental Disorders: Morbidity and the Remedial Use of ICT in Hispanic Societies.

Sergio Yagüe-Pasamón

Chapter 5. Speaking for Communities and Against Oppression: Digital Media Responses to COVID-19 within Marginalized Communities of Brazil and Mexico

Stuart Davis and Melissa Santillana

Part. II. Information technologies and civil engagement.

Chapter 6. Social media as an instrument of activism for feminist university students in Mexico: the cases of MOFFyL and Uni Unida.

Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar and Luis Antonio Becerra-Soria

Chapter 7. Latin American Indigenous Media Productions: Digital Artefacts of Contestation.

Milton Fernando Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Chapter 8. Digital media in citizen participation and collective action for spatial justice.

Laura Pinzón Cardona

Chapter 9. Social Media and Political Polarization in Latin America: analyzing online discussions during the 2018 presidential campaign in Colombia

Jean-Marie Chenou, Daniel Cabarcas Velandia and Maria Nicoll Sepulveda Marin

Part III. Journalism and Media Integrity in the Age of Post-truth.

Chapter 10. Digital Native Media in Central America: Reshaping the Online News Sphere.

Ramón Salaverría and Silvia-María Corzo

Chapter 11. Disinformation and news consumption in a polarized society: An analysis of the case of Venezuela.

Javier Serrano-Puche, Carmen Beatriz Fernández and Jordi Rodríguez Virgili

Chapter 12. Social Media in a Post-truth Age: Discursive Roles of Fake News About Marielle Franco.

Priscila Muniz de Medeiros and Natália Martins Flores

Chapter 13. Collaborative Journalism vs. Disinformation: An Approach to Fact-Checking Projects in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Spain.

Amaya Noain-Sánchez

Chapter 14. Conclusion.

David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw