Amaranta Alfaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amaranta Alfaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amaranta |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfaro |
| SIGNATURE | ALFARO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alberto Hurtado University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7159-2486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Where do I go now? Migrants' emotional responses to online racism and hate speech in Chile
Introduction This study examines migrants' exposure to online hate speech and its emotional impacts in Chile. Methods Using a convergent mixed-methods design, we combine a survey of 1,020 migrants with 22 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2023. Results Quantitative results show that Facebook and Instagram are the platforms where migrants most frequently encounter hostile content, particularly in comment sections of migration-related news. H…
Empowered and aware: Adolescent perspectives on technology and well-being in Chile and Colombia
Two decades after the advent of social media, a new generation of adolescents is navigating the intricate relationship between digital technologies and their well-being. This cohort raised and—with different scopes—guided and accompanied in their digital experience by parents who experienced the rise of social media firsthand and shaped by the unprecedented connectivity brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, faces unique opportunities and challe…
Género y tecnología en contextos digitales
Este nuevo número de la Revista Persona y Sociedad pone en relieve, una vez más, debates urgentes en torno al género y la tecnología en contextos digitales. Haciéndose cargo de problemáticas actuales que afectan a la sociedad en su conjunto pero que a su vez tienen intersecciones con múltiples tipos de exclusiones históricas. En un contexto donde los discursos mediáticos moldean percepciones, sensibilidades y políticas públicas, el cruce entre me…
Validación de instrumento sobre exposición a discursos de odio de comunidades migrantes en el ecosistema mediático chileno: Resultados preliminares
Introducción: Investigaciones advierten un aumento de las formas de ciberodio hacia grupos migrantes en contextos digitales. Sin embargo, escasas herramientas relevan la experiencia de quienes enfrentan tales agresiones. Metodología: El objetivo es validar un instrumento diseñado para recoger la exposición a discursos de odio, así como los efectos en la participación de comunidades migrantes en el ecosistema mediático chileno. Se recurre al métod…
Medios digitales, comunicación y género
Nos alegra mucho lanzar este Dossier sobre “Medios digitales, comunicación y género” en la revista Persona & Sociedad en conjunto con el Grupo temático “Comunicación, género e interculturalidad” de INCOM (Asociación Chilena de Investigadores en Comunicación). Este trabajo también es parte de las actividades y productos esperados del Programa de Vinculación con el Medio del Departamento de Periodismo UAH Género, Comunicación y Tecnología 2023. Los…
Migración haitiana y racismo anti-negro: Las implicancias de los encuadres mediáticos en espacios públicos y digitales
Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto que tienen los medios de comunicación, en particular la televisión, no solo en las percepciones y representaciones que se configuran sobre migrantes haitianos en espacios públicos y digitales, sino que también en las interacciones interculturales. A partir del análisis de dos casos de coberturas mediáticas de noticias que involucraban a migrantes haitianos, argumentamos que los encuadres pres…
The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration
Notions of 'race' and disease are deeply imbricated across the globe. This article explores the historical, complex entanglements between 'race', disease, and dirtiness in the multicultural Chilean context of Covid-19. We conducted a quantitative content analysis and a discourse analysis of online readers' comments (n = 1233) in a digital news platform surrounding a controversial news event to examine Chileans' cultural representations of Haitian…
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of Covid-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
This article explores the uses of sources in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in social media posts of mainstream news organizations in Brazil, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. Based on computational content analysis, our study analyzes the sources and actors present in more than 940,000 posts on COVID-19 published in the 227 Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts of 78 sampled news outlets between January 1 and December …
Fuentes informativas en tiempos de Covid-19: Cómo los medios en Chile narraron la pandemia a través de sus redes sociales
This study analyzes the use of social media sources by nine news outlets in Chile in regard to Covid-19. We identified the most frequently used types of sources, their evolution over time, and the differences between the various social media platforms used by the Chilean media during the pandemic. Specifically, we extracted 838,618 messages published by Chilean media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter between January and December 2020. An initia…
Platforms, Journalists and Their Digital Selves
Based on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 31 Chilean journalists from national TV, radio, print, and online media, this study explores how news professionals negotiate their identities and media use on Twitter and Instagram. The results suggest that, overall, they use Twitter and Instagram to stay informed, report the news, engage in branding activities, and interact with their audiences, expanding the scope of their work to include new pro…
Platforms, Journalists and Their Digital Selves
Based on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 31 Chilean journalists from national TV, radio, print, and online media, this study explores how news professionals negotiate their identities and media use on Twitter and Instagram. The results suggest that, overall, they use Twitter and Instagram to stay informed, report the news, engage in branding activities, and interact with their audiences, expanding the scope of their work to include new pro…
The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration
Notions of 'race' and disease are deeply imbricated across the globe. This article explores the historical, complex entanglements between 'race', disease, and dirtiness in the multicultural Chilean context of Covid-19. We conducted a quantitative content analysis and a discourse analysis of online readers' comments (n = 1233) in a digital news platform surrounding a controversial news event to examine Chileans' cultural representations of Haitian…
Fuentes informativas en tiempos de Covid-19: Cómo los medios en Chile narraron la pandemia a través de sus redes sociales
This study analyzes the use of social media sources by nine news outlets in Chile in regard to Covid-19. We identified the most frequently used types of sources, their evolution over time, and the differences between the various social media platforms used by the Chilean media during the pandemic. Specifically, we extracted 838,618 messages published by Chilean media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter between January and December 2020. An initia…
Platforms, Journalists and Their Digital Selves
Based on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 31 Chilean journalists from national TV, radio, print, and online media, this study explores how news professionals negotiate their identities and media use on Twitter and Instagram. The results suggest that, overall, they use Twitter and Instagram to stay informed, report the news, engage in branding activities, and interact with their audiences, expanding the scope of their work to include new pro…
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of Covid-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
This article explores the uses of sources in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in social media posts of mainstream news organizations in Brazil, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. Based on computational content analysis, our study analyzes the sources and actors present in more than 940,000 posts on COVID-19 published in the 227 Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts of 78 sampled news outlets between January 1 and December …
Fuentes informativas en tiempos de Covid-19: Cómo los medios en Chile narraron la pandemia a través de sus redes sociales
This study analyzes the use of social media sources by nine news outlets in Chile in regard to Covid-19. We identified the most frequently used types of sources, their evolution over time, and the differences between the various social media platforms used by the Chilean media during the pandemic. Specifically, we extracted 838,618 messages published by Chilean media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter between January and December 2020. An initia…
Migración haitiana y racismo anti-negro: Las implicancias de los encuadres mediáticos en espacios públicos y digitales
Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto que tienen los medios de comunicación, en particular la televisión, no solo en las percepciones y representaciones que se configuran sobre migrantes haitianos en espacios públicos y digitales, sino que también en las interacciones interculturales. A partir del análisis de dos casos de coberturas mediáticas de noticias que involucraban a migrantes haitianos, argumentamos que los encuadres pres…
The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration
Notions of 'race' and disease are deeply imbricated across the globe. This article explores the historical, complex entanglements between 'race', disease, and dirtiness in the multicultural Chilean context of Covid-19. We conducted a quantitative content analysis and a discourse analysis of online readers' comments (n = 1233) in a digital news platform surrounding a controversial news event to examine Chileans' cultural representations of Haitian…
Medios digitales, comunicación y género
Nos alegra mucho lanzar este Dossier sobre “Medios digitales, comunicación y género” en la revista Persona & Sociedad en conjunto con el Grupo temático “Comunicación, género e interculturalidad” de INCOM (Asociación Chilena de Investigadores en Comunicación). Este trabajo también es parte de las actividades y productos esperados del Programa de Vinculación con el Medio del Departamento de Periodismo UAH Género, Comunicación y Tecnología 2023. Los…
Validación de instrumento sobre exposición a discursos de odio de comunidades migrantes en el ecosistema mediático chileno: Resultados preliminares
Introducción: Investigaciones advierten un aumento de las formas de ciberodio hacia grupos migrantes en contextos digitales. Sin embargo, escasas herramientas relevan la experiencia de quienes enfrentan tales agresiones. Metodología: El objetivo es validar un instrumento diseñado para recoger la exposición a discursos de odio, así como los efectos en la participación de comunidades migrantes en el ecosistema mediático chileno. Se recurre al métod…
Género y tecnología en contextos digitales
Este nuevo número de la Revista Persona y Sociedad pone en relieve, una vez más, debates urgentes en torno al género y la tecnología en contextos digitales. Haciéndose cargo de problemáticas actuales que afectan a la sociedad en su conjunto pero que a su vez tienen intersecciones con múltiples tipos de exclusiones históricas. En un contexto donde los discursos mediáticos moldean percepciones, sensibilidades y políticas públicas, el cruce entre me…
Where do I go now? Migrants' emotional responses to online racism and hate speech in Chile
Introduction This study examines migrants' exposure to online hate speech and its emotional impacts in Chile. Methods Using a convergent mixed-methods design, we combine a survey of 1,020 migrants with 22 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2023. Results Quantitative results show that Facebook and Instagram are the platforms where migrants most frequently encounter hostile content, particularly in comment sections of migration-related news. H…
Empowered and aware: Adolescent perspectives on technology and well-being in Chile and Colombia
Two decades after the advent of social media, a new generation of adolescents is navigating the intricate relationship between digital technologies and their well-being. This cohort raised and—with different scopes—guided and accompanied in their digital experience by parents who experienced the rise of social media firsthand and shaped by the unprecedented connectivity brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, faces unique opportunities and challe…
Political science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Media and Digital Communication (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works)