Matías Valderrama Barragán
Biographic Data
| ID | 266541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matías Valderrama Barragán |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matías Valderrama |
| FAMILY NAME | Barragán |
| SIGNATURE | BARRAGÁN M V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0631-2454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism: Analysing Chilean News Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence
AI has become (again) a matter of public interest, and it is crucial to investigate how the news media intervenes in the hype and publicity around AI in different countries. At the intersection between Media Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article examines portrayals of AI and related technologies in the Chilean news media. We curated a corpus of nearly 7000 AI-related news articles from 2008 to 2023 from four Chilean newsp…
Civilizing users through social media corporate curricula
The psychological, political and social risks of social media are commonly up for debate. In response, social media companies are producing free to access lesson plans, tool-kits, and other pedagogical materials that seek to educate users about responsible social media use. Through a document analysis of such resources released by Meta, including Facebook's Get Digital literacy campaign and Instagram's Community Programs and Guides, we show how t…
AI as justification devices: Wellbeing and the datafied world in the Chilean context
On recent years, various calculative devices based on algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence (AI), have facilitated the quantification and reinterpretation of diverse concepts, such as wellbeing. In this context, we examine a Chilean start-up that aims to promote the well-being of companies’ employees by fostering healthy habits, encouraging social donations, and ensuring financial security, along with managing employee benefits for thei…
(Re)Inventing influence: Valuation and Justification in the Influencer Marketing Industry
Platforms on Trial: Mapping the Facebook Files/Papers Controversy
Big Tech has been involved in several controversies in recent years. Data leaks, whistleblowers, and social experiments have raised alarms about the dubbed toxic and unaccountable power of platforms and, more broadly, about the increasing crisis of accountability in digital societies (Cooper et al., 2022; Khan, 2018; Marres, 2021). At the intersection of digital sociology, media studies, and STS, this research explores how different actors make a…
Educated Users: Refining Manners Through Social Media Corporate Curriculums
This paper will scrutinise modes through which social media companies create, disseminate and deliver free digital literacy curriculums to educators, parents, caregivers and users. Following the thought of Norbert Elias, we consider these practices as part of broader attempts to $2 of human groups according to (contingent) values and beliefs, and which serve the capitalist interests of powerful global institutions seeking to inculcate them in doi…
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent Sage and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK
This article presents a situational analysis of the expert advice offered by Independent SAGE, a group of scientists that formed in May 2020 in the UK to provide advice on the Covid response. Based on interviews with the group’s members and partners, we argue that through its interventions Indie SAGE demonstrated an important alternative approach to linking science and politics in a time of emergency. They showed that the only way to ensure that …
Digital Valuation: Lessons in relevance from the prototyping of a recommendation app
This article describes the use of a prototype recommendation app to explore how users are included and/or excluded in categories of various kinds of ‘People Like You’. In the study, interviews with users of the prototype app indicate that the experience of receiving personalized recommendations isroutinely evaluated in terms of relevance, that is, as either of interest to them or as beside the point, as accurate or inaccurate, with accuracy often…
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile's Data Observatory Foundation
The public-private initiative Data Observatory Foundation was created to make large databases, such as those of astronomical observatories, available to expand and transfer of so-called "data-centric tasks" to various domains and thereby boost the development of the digital economy, data science and artificial intelligence in the country. However, in this article, we argue that data-centric initiatives like the Data Observatory Foundation may pro…
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile
In a milieu marked by increasing quantification of social life, many digital devices have emerged under the promise of a revolutionary change in areas such as urban planning and governance of Smart City projects. Starting from a pragmatist approach based on Boltanski and Thévenot’s “orders of worth” framework, we argue that the promoters of digital devices must justify their worth by developing “technologies of justification” that go beyond data.…
Descolonizando los sistemas algorítmicos: Diseño crítico para la problematización de algoritmos y datos digitales desde el Sur
Este artículo propone reflexiones metodológicas y teóricas a partir del proyecto interdisciplinario “Identidades algorítmicas”. Iniciado en 2019 entre investigadores de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y la Universidad de Warwick (Reino Unido), busca comprender cómo la persona es configurada en tiempos de algoritmos y datos digitales. Para ello, diseñamos un prototipo de aplicación, llamada Big Sister, que emula los sistemas de elabora…
Online experiments and participation within Chile's extraordinary constitutional process
research-article Share on Online experiments and participation within Chile's extraordinary constitutional process Authors: Gloria Baigorrotegui University of Santiago University of SantiagoView Profile , Matías Valderrama University of Warwick University of WarwickView Profile , Patricia Peña Universidad de Chile Universidad de ChileView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 6November - December 2021 pp 36–40https://doi.org/10…
Experimenting with the Social Life of Homes: Sensor Governmentality and Its Frictions
Smart devices are invading everyday spaces like our bedrooms and living rooms, making it possible to conduct new participatory experimentations in the ‘real world’. An example is the National Housing Monitoring Network (Red Nacional de Monitoreo, ReNaM). By installing networked sensors in homes in different cities in Chile, ReNaM seeks to generate a large public database on the environmental behaviour of homes in real life conditions and througho…
The militarization of the urban sky in Santiago de Chile: The vision multiple of a video-surveillance system of aerostatic balloons
Under a climate of insecurity, two of the wealthiest municipalities in Chile implemented a controversial system of aerostatic balloons equipped with next-generation cameras for urban surveillance. The municipalities sought to use this technology, which was originally designed for war and border control, to manage public space more efficiently in the so-called “war against crime”. The balloons immediately met with opposition from those concerned a…
Unpacking a citizen self-tracking device: Smartness and idiocy in the accumulation of cycling mobility data
Based on the Smart Cities imaginary, the bottom-up project Stgo2020 created a self-tracking device known as Rastreador Urbano de Bicicletas (or Urban Bicycle Tracker) to record the daily trips of cyclists in Santiago de Chile and use the data gathered to help government officials make better and data-driven decisions on cycling infrastructure planning. In this article, we examine the iterative design of this technology as well as its introduction…
Urbanisme militarisé et situation cosmopolitique: Le cas des ballons aérostatiques de surveillance à Santiago du Chili
Dans deux des plus riches communes de Santiago du Chili, un système moderne de surveillance par aérostats a été mis en place, les ballons se situant à une altitude élevée avec des caméras à haute résolution contrôlées à distance. Ce système auto-identifié comme ' smart ', conçu initialement pour les guerres et les contrôles frontaliers, a été amené par des entités municipales pour pouvoir engager ' la guerre contre la délinquance ' et ' gérer l'e…
Transformando la bicicleta en laboratorios móviles. El caso de un self-tracking ciudadano para la ciudad de Santiago
Dentro de la tenencia mundial por generar ciudades más inteligentes y sustentables, la creación de infraestructura urbana en favor del uso de la bicicleta se ha vuelto una meta de varias capitales como es el caso de Santiago de Chile. Ante la pregunta por cómo definir en dónde instalar esa infraestructura vial, el proyecto bottom-up Stgo2020 diseña un diminuto dispositivo de self-tracking llamado RUBI. Este permite registrar los recorridos cotidi…
Las anticuadas descripciones de las nuevas tecnologías digitales
El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) no solo se caracteriza por un avance técnico sino también por discursos o descripciones acerca de las mismas tecnologías. Los usos y trayectorias futuras de estas tecnologías dependen de sus descripciones, por lo cual se vuelve relevante indagar respecto de ellas. El presente artículo, basándose en los planteamientos de Niklas Luhmann, se propone redescribir las distincio…
Unpacking a citizen self-tracking device: Smartness and idiocy in the accumulation of cycling mobility data
Based on the Smart Cities imaginary, the bottom-up project Stgo2020 created a self-tracking device known as Rastreador Urbano de Bicicletas (or Urban Bicycle Tracker) to record the daily trips of cyclists in Santiago de Chile and use the data gathered to help government officials make better and data-driven decisions on cycling infrastructure planning. In this article, we examine the iterative design of this technology as well as its introduction…
Experimenting with the Social Life of Homes: Sensor Governmentality and Its Frictions
Smart devices are invading everyday spaces like our bedrooms and living rooms, making it possible to conduct new participatory experimentations in the ‘real world’. An example is the National Housing Monitoring Network (Red Nacional de Monitoreo, ReNaM). By installing networked sensors in homes in different cities in Chile, ReNaM seeks to generate a large public database on the environmental behaviour of homes in real life conditions and througho…
Urbanisme militarisé et situation cosmopolitique: Le cas des ballons aérostatiques de surveillance à Santiago du Chili
Dans deux des plus riches communes de Santiago du Chili, un système moderne de surveillance par aérostats a été mis en place, les ballons se situant à une altitude élevée avec des caméras à haute résolution contrôlées à distance. Ce système auto-identifié comme ' smart ', conçu initialement pour les guerres et les contrôles frontaliers, a été amené par des entités municipales pour pouvoir engager ' la guerre contre la délinquance ' et ' gérer l'e…
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent Sage and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK
This article presents a situational analysis of the expert advice offered by Independent SAGE, a group of scientists that formed in May 2020 in the UK to provide advice on the Covid response. Based on interviews with the group’s members and partners, we argue that through its interventions Indie SAGE demonstrated an important alternative approach to linking science and politics in a time of emergency. They showed that the only way to ensure that …
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile's Data Observatory Foundation
The public-private initiative Data Observatory Foundation was created to make large databases, such as those of astronomical observatories, available to expand and transfer of so-called "data-centric tasks" to various domains and thereby boost the development of the digital economy, data science and artificial intelligence in the country. However, in this article, we argue that data-centric initiatives like the Data Observatory Foundation may pro…
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile
In a milieu marked by increasing quantification of social life, many digital devices have emerged under the promise of a revolutionary change in areas such as urban planning and governance of Smart City projects. Starting from a pragmatist approach based on Boltanski and Thévenot’s “orders of worth” framework, we argue that the promoters of digital devices must justify their worth by developing “technologies of justification” that go beyond data.…
The militarization of the urban sky in Santiago de Chile: The vision multiple of a video-surveillance system of aerostatic balloons
Under a climate of insecurity, two of the wealthiest municipalities in Chile implemented a controversial system of aerostatic balloons equipped with next-generation cameras for urban surveillance. The municipalities sought to use this technology, which was originally designed for war and border control, to manage public space more efficiently in the so-called “war against crime”. The balloons immediately met with opposition from those concerned a…
Transformando la bicicleta en laboratorios móviles. El caso de un self-tracking ciudadano para la ciudad de Santiago
Dentro de la tenencia mundial por generar ciudades más inteligentes y sustentables, la creación de infraestructura urbana en favor del uso de la bicicleta se ha vuelto una meta de varias capitales como es el caso de Santiago de Chile. Ante la pregunta por cómo definir en dónde instalar esa infraestructura vial, el proyecto bottom-up Stgo2020 diseña un diminuto dispositivo de self-tracking llamado RUBI. Este permite registrar los recorridos cotidi…
Las anticuadas descripciones de las nuevas tecnologías digitales
El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) no solo se caracteriza por un avance técnico sino también por discursos o descripciones acerca de las mismas tecnologías. Los usos y trayectorias futuras de estas tecnologías dependen de sus descripciones, por lo cual se vuelve relevante indagar respecto de ellas. El presente artículo, basándose en los planteamientos de Niklas Luhmann, se propone redescribir las distincio…
Urbanisme militarisé et situation cosmopolitique: Le cas des ballons aérostatiques de surveillance à Santiago du Chili
Dans deux des plus riches communes de Santiago du Chili, un système moderne de surveillance par aérostats a été mis en place, les ballons se situant à une altitude élevée avec des caméras à haute résolution contrôlées à distance. Ce système auto-identifié comme ' smart ', conçu initialement pour les guerres et les contrôles frontaliers, a été amené par des entités municipales pour pouvoir engager ' la guerre contre la délinquance ' et ' gérer l'e…
Transformando la bicicleta en laboratorios móviles. El caso de un self-tracking ciudadano para la ciudad de Santiago
Dentro de la tenencia mundial por generar ciudades más inteligentes y sustentables, la creación de infraestructura urbana en favor del uso de la bicicleta se ha vuelto una meta de varias capitales como es el caso de Santiago de Chile. Ante la pregunta por cómo definir en dónde instalar esa infraestructura vial, el proyecto bottom-up Stgo2020 diseña un diminuto dispositivo de self-tracking llamado RUBI. Este permite registrar los recorridos cotidi…
Unpacking a citizen self-tracking device: Smartness and idiocy in the accumulation of cycling mobility data
Based on the Smart Cities imaginary, the bottom-up project Stgo2020 created a self-tracking device known as Rastreador Urbano de Bicicletas (or Urban Bicycle Tracker) to record the daily trips of cyclists in Santiago de Chile and use the data gathered to help government officials make better and data-driven decisions on cycling infrastructure planning. In this article, we examine the iterative design of this technology as well as its introduction…
The militarization of the urban sky in Santiago de Chile: The vision multiple of a video-surveillance system of aerostatic balloons
Under a climate of insecurity, two of the wealthiest municipalities in Chile implemented a controversial system of aerostatic balloons equipped with next-generation cameras for urban surveillance. The municipalities sought to use this technology, which was originally designed for war and border control, to manage public space more efficiently in the so-called “war against crime”. The balloons immediately met with opposition from those concerned a…
Descolonizando los sistemas algorítmicos: Diseño crítico para la problematización de algoritmos y datos digitales desde el Sur
Este artículo propone reflexiones metodológicas y teóricas a partir del proyecto interdisciplinario “Identidades algorítmicas”. Iniciado en 2019 entre investigadores de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y la Universidad de Warwick (Reino Unido), busca comprender cómo la persona es configurada en tiempos de algoritmos y datos digitales. Para ello, diseñamos un prototipo de aplicación, llamada Big Sister, que emula los sistemas de elabora…
Online experiments and participation within Chile's extraordinary constitutional process
research-article Share on Online experiments and participation within Chile's extraordinary constitutional process Authors: Gloria Baigorrotegui University of Santiago University of SantiagoView Profile , Matías Valderrama University of Warwick University of WarwickView Profile , Patricia Peña Universidad de Chile Universidad de ChileView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 28Issue 6November - December 2021 pp 36–40https://doi.org/10…
Experimenting with the Social Life of Homes: Sensor Governmentality and Its Frictions
Smart devices are invading everyday spaces like our bedrooms and living rooms, making it possible to conduct new participatory experimentations in the ‘real world’. An example is the National Housing Monitoring Network (Red Nacional de Monitoreo, ReNaM). By installing networked sensors in homes in different cities in Chile, ReNaM seeks to generate a large public database on the environmental behaviour of homes in real life conditions and througho…
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile
In a milieu marked by increasing quantification of social life, many digital devices have emerged under the promise of a revolutionary change in areas such as urban planning and governance of Smart City projects. Starting from a pragmatist approach based on Boltanski and Thévenot’s “orders of worth” framework, we argue that the promoters of digital devices must justify their worth by developing “technologies of justification” that go beyond data.…
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile's Data Observatory Foundation
The public-private initiative Data Observatory Foundation was created to make large databases, such as those of astronomical observatories, available to expand and transfer of so-called "data-centric tasks" to various domains and thereby boost the development of the digital economy, data science and artificial intelligence in the country. However, in this article, we argue that data-centric initiatives like the Data Observatory Foundation may pro…
Digital Valuation: Lessons in relevance from the prototyping of a recommendation app
This article describes the use of a prototype recommendation app to explore how users are included and/or excluded in categories of various kinds of ‘People Like You’. In the study, interviews with users of the prototype app indicate that the experience of receiving personalized recommendations isroutinely evaluated in terms of relevance, that is, as either of interest to them or as beside the point, as accurate or inaccurate, with accuracy often…
Platforms on Trial: Mapping the Facebook Files/Papers Controversy
Big Tech has been involved in several controversies in recent years. Data leaks, whistleblowers, and social experiments have raised alarms about the dubbed toxic and unaccountable power of platforms and, more broadly, about the increasing crisis of accountability in digital societies (Cooper et al., 2022; Khan, 2018; Marres, 2021). At the intersection of digital sociology, media studies, and STS, this research explores how different actors make a…
Educated Users: Refining Manners Through Social Media Corporate Curriculums
This paper will scrutinise modes through which social media companies create, disseminate and deliver free digital literacy curriculums to educators, parents, caregivers and users. Following the thought of Norbert Elias, we consider these practices as part of broader attempts to $2 of human groups according to (contingent) values and beliefs, and which serve the capitalist interests of powerful global institutions seeking to inculcate them in doi…
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent Sage and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK
This article presents a situational analysis of the expert advice offered by Independent SAGE, a group of scientists that formed in May 2020 in the UK to provide advice on the Covid response. Based on interviews with the group’s members and partners, we argue that through its interventions Indie SAGE demonstrated an important alternative approach to linking science and politics in a time of emergency. They showed that the only way to ensure that …
From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism: Analysing Chilean News Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence
AI has become (again) a matter of public interest, and it is crucial to investigate how the news media intervenes in the hype and publicity around AI in different countries. At the intersection between Media Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article examines portrayals of AI and related technologies in the Chilean news media. We curated a corpus of nearly 7000 AI-related news articles from 2008 to 2023 from four Chilean newsp…
Civilizing users through social media corporate curricula
The psychological, political and social risks of social media are commonly up for debate. In response, social media companies are producing free to access lesson plans, tool-kits, and other pedagogical materials that seek to educate users about responsible social media use. Through a document analysis of such resources released by Meta, including Facebook's Get Digital literacy campaign and Instagram's Community Programs and Guides, we show how t…
AI as justification devices: Wellbeing and the datafied world in the Chilean context
On recent years, various calculative devices based on algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence (AI), have facilitated the quantification and reinterpretation of diverse concepts, such as wellbeing. In this context, we examine a Chilean start-up that aims to promote the well-being of companies’ employees by fostering healthy habits, encouraging social donations, and ensuring financial security, along with managing employee benefits for thei…
(Re)Inventing influence: Valuation and Justification in the Influencer Marketing Industry
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