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The irruption of new technologies in the historical discipline and its treatment since has meant modifications in the reconstruction of stages and elements as controversial as the Historical Memory. A reality that has been influenced and benefited by them in terms of dissemination and social visibility of the related problems still to be solved. From this article we have made an analysis and reflection on the treatment of history from the digital world and the impact on the emergence of new sources, as well as an approach to the context of Historical Memory in the digital world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Subjects integrate their daily experiences with countless digital platforms, making it increasingly difficult to separate algorithms from the activities that constitute culture and politics. This article presents the Map of Algorithmic Mediations, a theoretical-methodological framework inspired by the nocturnal maps of Jesús Martín-Barbero. The aim is to propose a flexible cartography that allows for an understanding of the particularities of technological and algorithmic artifacts, as well as the processes of mediation, use, and appropriation that involve them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Competition in the German audiovisual and media system is analyzed, based on the Political Economy of Communication (EPC) and its update based on the analysis of the dynamics of digital platforms. The article aims to be a starting point for comparative analyzes of countries in the rearrangement of the global media market, which face multiplicity of supply, digitalization and competition between local audiovisual industry leaders, private and public, with audiovisual streaming services. It is concluded that the EPC’s theoretical proposal allows a Latin American theoretical and critical look at empirical research in different contexts that, despite the differences, are influenced by common categories, such as Capital, the State and the Public in their interrelations and challenges that accompany digital platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Informality is a reality for three-quarters of domestic workers in Brazil who, without a formal employment relationship, are not protected by the legal guarantees established since 2013. This lack of legal protection is exacerbated by the emphasis on entrepreneurship promoted by a growing number of digital platforms offering domestic work intermediation. In this article, we examine the structural standards of digital intermediation companies for domestic work in Brazil. Four representative platforms (GetNinjas, Parafuzo, Helpty, and Crafty) were analyzed. Our research corpus consists of their websites and applications, their terms of use, as well as journalistic articles and complaints from workers and clients on the website Reclame Aqui. The results are presented in three parts: (i) the history and general characteristics of each platform; (ii) their content organized into four categories of analysis (marketing, hiring, remuneration, and reputation systems); and (iii) the accounts of clients and workers on the Reclame Aqui website. The study found that digital intermediaries for domestic work present complex challenges for workers, as they amplify existing risks in the dominant labor model, such as intense subordination, economic dependence, lack of transparency about the value of their work, and exclusion from legal labor protection, whose recent expansion has not resulted in effective change. The study also suggests that this intensification of risks increases directly with the degree of intervention by the digital intermediary in the client-worker relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how digital platforms have changed working conditions and labor relations in domestic and care work in recent years. The study focuses on Hogarú, a digital platform in Colombia. Through a qualitative study involving interviews and focus groups, we analyze Hogarú's business model, along with the changes in working conditions for domestic workers compared to traditional employment methods. The study highlights two main findings. First, digital platforms can enhance domestic workers' bargaining power by raising awareness of their rights, professionalizing their work, promoting physical meeting spaces with other workers, providing ongoing training, and ensuring fundamental rights. Second, while digital platforms can shift the traditional labor relationship from one where the domestic worker directly offers care services to one managed by the company, power imbalances and low recognition of this work persist. This article offers insights into digital labor platforms from the perspective of the workers involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we chart a conceptual path to challenge the presumed gender neutrality of on-demand mobility platforms (ODMPs) as an effort to unlock an entry point for feminist critiques and interventions. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of dispositif, the ODMP is theorized as a "platform assemblage"—a complex sociotechnical system encompassing the digital and the nondigital stack that are mutually constituted in a contingent, relational, and contextual way. We employed a quantitative feminist approach to unpacking the "black-boxed" gender neutrality of the sociotechnical system. We argue that the gender nonneutrality is more than merely a symptom of the immanent masculinist propensities of ODMPs, but also the origin and organ that simultaneously represent the phenomena, processes, and products of how the gender relations of power operate through digitally mediated mobilities, while contextually, relationally, and rhizomatically coopting into and with other always-already gendered social categories. We first argue that gendered practices and processes of digitally mediated mobilities and gender nonneutrality of ODMPs in the digital stack are relational and mutually constituted. ODMPs actively abstract extant gender inequalities in daily mobilities into "idiotic" data derivatives, feeding and propagating into the platform demand and pricing calculi that algorithmically prioritize mobile and masculine subjects, perpetuating or amplifying gender inequalities in digitally mediated mobilities. The digital presences and practices of ODMPs create new temporalities and spatialities of daily mobilities that are perceived as gender-specific time–space fixity and flexibility. Furthermore, ODMP-mediated mobilities have not fundamentally disrupted the conservative gendered power relations at home, and the masculinist form of control over familial automobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes a discussion on the current challenges of critical thinking on communication in Latin America and seeks to outline a research agenda towards 2030, based on the recognition of the historical achievements of the so-called Latin American School of Communication. This prospective exercise takes as its starting point the conclusions of the first meeting of Latin American specialists and experts in communication, which was held in Costa Rica in September 1973, at the initiative of CIESPAL, and shows that the legacy of this foundational meeting is still valid, 50 years later, in the work of the regional networks of researchers. The new faces of cultural dependence, the consequences of the platforming of labor, the role of technology in the articulation of the public speech and the role of critical studies on Public Opinion and Political Communication in the democratization of Latin American societies are some of the challenges to be faced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Digital platforms for the sale of fast food have experienced high growth in recent years. However, there are still human, technological and idiosyncratic factors that limit the extension of this practice, particularly in Portoviejo. A mixed qualitative-quantitative approach was used to collect data on the use of this type of platform in the commercialization of food among users and entrepreneurs. Allowing a better understanding from the point of view of each user segment that can be favored by this type of service. The results show that this type of service has a high acceptance but there are still problems that prevent its proper development. Mainly factors of cultural origin, technological access and confidence in distribution mechanisms are still limiting the growth and scope of digital platforms in the analyzed environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to analyze, from the perspective of waiting time, the working conditions imposed on app delivery people. Time is essential when carrying out these jobs, as they define goals, working hours and also affect the mental and physical conditions of the delivery people. In their free time, which predominates when carrying out uberized work, delivery drivers expose their weaknesses, fears and anxieties in the form of competitions, fights and take out their boredom with drug use. The data were obtained from a participatory ethnography, in which the author carried out fieldwork for 6 months. From this context, it is expected to deepen the debate on the precariousness of work, adding elements such as the choice of these delivery men in carrying out these jobs, presenting the particularities of the daily life of a group of delivery men who are concentrated in a square in Osasco, São Paulo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the functioning of participation and the characteristics of the proposals that are financed in three online participation instruments carried out by the local governments of Montevideo, Vicente López and San Lorenzo. It will seek to characterize and identify similarities and differences in the experiences in relation to these two dimensions, which will be disaggregated in this article into the following variables: a) accessibility of online participation, b) interaction process, and c) type of proposals. The research has a qualitative design that involved in-depth interviews with participants and policy makers, observation of the activity in the participatory platforms and analysis of the institutional designs, the proposals presented and secondary data. The argument is that while there is an impact of the format that generates challenges to participation, leading in some cases to seek complements with face-to-face instances, the proposed institutional design also plays a decisive role. In this sense, there are differences between tools created specifically for the online format and those that transition from in-person to online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This study analyses the way in which content related to alcohol, tobacco, junk food and sports appear in the 10 most watched movies and 10 most watched series on Netflix. Methodology: To determine this, a conceptual analysis method based on a 5-minute interval coding is used. Results: The results indicate that alcohol is shown in 32.7% of the sections of the films and in 29.8% of the series. Tobacco appears in 13.2% of the intervals of the films and in 14.5% of the series. Junk food has a presence of 24.3% in movies and of 24.9% in series. Regarding sports, 7.8% of the movie sections and 8.5% of the series showed this content. Discussion: Among the conclusions, the need to transform the collective imaginary in relation to these kinds of harmful products is highlighted and, at the same time, the use of the media is promoted to encourage healthy lifestyle habits among consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the influence of technological tools on the digital skills of CETPRO teachers. The need for continuous training in the use of information technologies to improve learning is highlighted. The importance of teacher preparation in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to promote student independence in their educational performance is suggested. The importance of teacher training in digital skills in technical and productive education is emphasized, and the influence of technological tools on teachers' digital skills is mentioned. The results of a study conducted with teachers from CETPRO YACHAYHUASI are presented, highlighting teachers' access to technologies and their use in teaching. [Extracted from the article]

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Recent developments in legal decisions have highlighted the directive power exerted by platforms, leading to a preference for an employee scheme for qualification purposes. However, work platform control mechanisms are part of larger, more complex systems of algorithmic power that threaten the identities of individuals. Workers become subject to manipulation even before they begin work, rendering the protections associated with employee recognition inadequate. One possible solution to safeguard the dignity of workers and right to self-determination is to align labor law with the right to personal data protection. La evolución reciente de las decisiones judiciales ha puesto de relieve el poder directivo que ejercen las plataformas, lo que ha llevado a preferir un régimen de empleados a efectos de cualificación. Sin embargo, los mecanismos de control de las plataformas de trabajo forman parte de sistemas más amplios y complejos de poder algorítmico que amenazan la identidad de las personas. Los trabajadores se convierten en objeto de manipulación incluso antes de empezar a trabajar, lo que hace que las protecciones asociadas al reconocimiento de empleado resulten inadecuadas. Una posible solución para salvaguardar la dignidad de los trabajadores y el derecho a la autodeterminación es alinear la legislación laboral con el derecho a la protección de datos personales.

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This paper presents a study of the dimensions that involve the discursive conflicts between groups of political supporters in the public debate on digital platforms. Through the case study of the conflict that developed on Twitter around the dismissal of Weintraub from the Ministry of Education in Bolsonaro's government, the article presents an analysis that highlights three dimensions of the discursive conflict: (a) the chronology of behavior of discursive interaction networks related to the issue; (b) the issues that were raised; and (c) the profile of the more active users. The results show that the discursive conflicts are dominated by 1) the replication of original messages (retweets), 2) the intersection of themes that involve the leading personalities in and the context of the conflict, and 3) the great activity of non-institutional profiles in the dissemination of messages, associated with their ideological positioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transport and delivery digital platforms symbolize the uberisation of labor relations within the capitalist neoliberal phase, and they have become increasingly present in daily life. In order to reveal political-electoral reverberations of such process, this article presents an analysis of candidates' ballot names considering their Electoral Geography when it comes to the Municipal Elections (2016 and 2020) referring to uberisation. Initially, based on data from the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the growth in the number of these candidates is understood, such as their profile, their distribution across the territory, and political parties. In a second step, it is considered the trajectory of a particular app driver, who has become a public persona, being elected councilor for São Paulo in 2020. Then, it is presented how the national candidate network has articulated based on issues related to drivers' activity by apps. Some final considerations have indicated a considered growth regarding the adoption of ballot names linked to uberisation, this is geographically selective but indicative of a trivialization about this process in social and political life. Besides, there are institutional limits to City Councils actions concerning a national regulated process. Other tensions are also indicated between the public and private sphere stemming from digital platforms in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is undeniable that the interaction between new information and communication technologies structures the current socio-spatial organization, which has assumed expressive functions in the processes of social, economic, productive, and territorial restructuring. Understanding the changes induced by technological development and improvement constitutes the main objective of this article, shedding light on new forms of effective organization and capital accumulation influenced by new media and digital platforms. The discussion presented considers that the technological revolution fueled the evolutionary potential of relationships, living, and feeling within the scope of the new regime of capitalist accumulation characterized by the appropriation and exploitation of data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of an ongoing research into virtual teaching platforms in Brazil. Managed by foreign and national business groups, our hypothesis is that the economic agents behind this service make use of the Brazilian territory, based on their corporate intentions. Thus, the aim of the research is to identify and understand the territorial strategies practiced by hegemonic companies/platforms in this field, which may be interpreted through the composition of the technosphere and psychosphere that these companies/platforms depend on. In this investigation, the sociotechnical disposition (algorithm, reputation model, monetization, marketing, etc.), the topology of these companies (business headquarters, user location, office distribution, investors, etc.) and their dependence on fixed points, demonstrate how territorial factors are inalienable in the action of these agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of ongoing research, presenting analyzes regarding a new type of service offered by the Uber corporation in Brazil, Uber Moto (from motorcycle), subsequently also offered by 99/DiDi. The text discusses a new stage in the process of making work conditions more precarious, as well as the company's appropriation (or "vampirization") of typical displacement forms of the popular economy in peripheral countries, such as Brazil. The empirical focus of the analysis is on the municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (MRBH), although analyzes are also developed on a national scale, along with a discussion on the standardization of services in other municipalities. Methodologically, the research was based on the analysis of various secondary data and the use of location emulators to prove the existence of the service in cities. Lastly, it presents conclusions on the conflict between municipal and metropolitan traffic management and the use of the territory by app transport companies, which operate in municipalities where there are no specific regulations on the motorcycle taxi service, which also implies new forms of precarious work and the risk of accidents for passengers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]