Comunicación Digital; Trabajo Digital; Comunicación Política

PhD en Sociología y Magíster en Medios y Comunicaciones por la universidad London School of Economics (Reino Unido). Profesor Asociado de la Escuela de Comunicaciones y Periodismo de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), donde enseño e investigo sobre trabajo digital, economía de las plataformas, uso de redes sociales y comunicación política.

Director de Cultura Social Media (www.culturasocialmedia.com), laboratorio de estudios sobre comunicación digital dependiente de la Escuela de Comunicaciones y Periodismo UAI.

Director del proyecto Fairwork en Chile (fair.work) cuyo objetivo es investigar y promover buenas prácticas laborales en la "gig economy".

Mis investigaciones han sido publicadas en destacadas revistas académicas como Social Media + Society, Journal of Cultural Economy, Journal of Communication, Online Information Review, International Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press and Politics, entre otras. He publicado como autor y editor cuatro libros: "Conexión pública: prácticas cívicas y uso de medios de comunicación en cinco países" (2017); "El mundo en mi mano: la revolución de los datos móviles" (2016); "Diarios de Vida de las Audiencias Chilenas" (2015); "Intermedios: medios de comunicación y democracia en Chile" (2013). Mi trabajo como investigador ha contado con financiamiento de FONDECYT (Iniciación 11150095), CONICYT (PLU190014) y de Fairwork Foundation y el Oxford Internet Institute.

2020. "La otra primera línea: COVID-19 y trabajadores de plataformas digitales" (con Macarena Bonhomme y Francisco Ibáñez). CIPER Académico, Abril 2020.

2020. "MIGRANTS AND PLATFORM WORK IN CHILE: MOVING BETWEEN PRECARITY AND INVISIBILITY" (with Macarena Bonhomme). Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, Dublin.

2019. “Moving between commerciality and authenticity: the social imaginary of social media influencers”. Paper presented at the CAMeO Conference organized by the Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, Leicester University. Leicester, UK 5-6 September, 2019.

2018. “Unpacking social media influencers’ media kit”. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, Montreal, 9-13 October.

2018. “From blogs to Instagram and then to Instagram Stories”: Social media influencers and the design of emotional consumption experiences. Paper presented at the Platformization of Cultural Production, University of Toronto, Toronto, 7-8 October.

2017. “Branding the daily life to promote global and local consumption: the case of Chilean fashion bloggers” (with Sophie Bishop). Paper presented at the CAMeO Conference, organized by the Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, Leicester University. Leicester, 6-7 September.

2017. “Chilean fashion bloggers: the transmission belt between consumers, branding agencies and the global retail industry”. Paper presented at the RGS-IBS Conference, London, 29 August-1 September.

2017. “Unpacking the ‘media kit’: an analysis of a device connecting consumers to branding agencies”. Paper presented at the “Branded Content Research Network”, organized by the University of East London. London, June 2017.

2016. “Fama, moda y likes”: fashion bloggers and value generation in the field of fashion. Paper presented at the conference Medios y Sociedad, organized by Universidad San Andrés and Northwestern University. Buenos Aires, October 2016.

2015. “La construcción cotidiana del “capital digital”: tecnologías digitales de comunicación y prácticas de mediación cultural en el Chile contemporáneo. Paper presented at the conference Medios y Sociedad, organized by Universidad San Andrés and Northwestern University. Buenos Aires, October 2015.

2015. “Audiences and natural disasters: People’s media use and reflections before and after an earthquake and a wildfire” (with Teresa Correa and Andrés Scherman). Paper presented at the AEJMC International Regional Conference. Santiago, October 2015.

2015. “The social life of music bloggers in contemporary Chile”. Paper presented at the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography. Oxford, August 2015.

2015. “Chileans media practices and media pluralism from the bottom-up” (with Teresa Correa and Andrés Scherman). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ICA (Communication and Theory division). San Juan, May 2015.

2015. “Social Media Use and Protest Behavior in Latin America: Deepening or Bridging Gaps in Participation?” (with Sebastián Valenzuela, Nicolás Somma, and Andrés Scherman). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ICA (communication and Technology division). San Juan, May 2015.

2014. “A longitudinal study of social media and youth protest: Facebook, Twitter, and student mobilization in Chile (2010-2012)” (with Sebastián Valenzuela and Andrés Scherman). Paper presented at the annual meeting of ICA (communication and Technology division). Seattle, May 25th 2014.

2014. “Digital capital as a form of expertise in the age of digital reproduction: the case of music fans in contemporary Chile”. Paper presented at the ICA pre-conference “Communication and the Good Life: Around the World After Two Decades of the Digital Divide”. Seattle, May 23rd, 2014.

2013. “The everyday making of digital capital in contemporary Chile”. Paper presented at the ICA pre-conference Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication, London, June, 2013.