Derechos personales, violencia y otras conductas en internet

El seminario titulado “Derechos personales, violencia y otras conductas en internet”, tuvo lugar los días: miércoles 3 y jueves 4 de mayo, en el Aula Magna de la Universidad Panamericana, campus Mixcoac.

Mi participación fue en la mesa 6 (jueves 4 de mayo) hablando sobre el tema de los discursos de odio en Internet (Tiempo: 02:12:00)

Discurso de odio en Internet
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Democracy and Media Ecology

The New York Society for General Semantics is proud to present a special event titled “Democracy and Media Ecology” at the historic Players at 16 Gramercy Park South in New York City. Our event will take place on Friday evening, January 27th between 6pm and 9pm, and we hope you’ll register and join us for what promises to be a lively and engaging discussion.

Date: 27 Jan 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: The Players NYC – 16 Gramercy Park South, NY, NY

Media ecology entails the study of media as environments. Those things that go between us and what’s “out there” strongly influence the way we think, act, and communicate. Neil Postman famously called media ecology “general semantics writ large.” As our good friend Thom Gencarelli wrote in 2020, reviewing Postman’s role in both fields, “If general semantics considers our semantic environment, or context in which utterances take place, and the fact that the sense and sensibility and result of such utterances are to a great extent determined by that context, then the same holds true when we expand the concept of our semantic environment to consider our various media environments – wherein the nature of the medium, as a context, influences both the nature of utterances offered and the meanings we make from such utterances.”

This point is particularly valuable in attempting to understand how we shape our world through the choices we make in organizing and governing our affairs. Democracy is one system, method, or medium for engaging in that important work and therefore it’s important to consider the democratic shape of things as we seek to improve and progress as human beings. As democratic systems of various types become strained by the pace and intensity of our contemporary condition, we gather to consider what’s going on and what we might do about it.

Each January, the Executive Board of the Media Ecology Association holds its annual meeting in New York City, and the NYSGS is very pleased to have a number of principals of the MEA Board with us to share food, drink, and an evening of intellectual reflection.

Dr. Adriana Braga is Immediate Past President of the MEA and Associate Professor at the Social Communication Department at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica/Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Coordinator of the Digital Media Lab and researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil).

Dr. Thom Gencarelli is a Past President of the MEA, Treasurer of the NYSGS, and Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of General Semantics’ journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics. He is Professor and founding Chair of the Communication Department at Manhattan College.

Dr. Fernando Gutiérrez is the long time Executive Secretary of the MEA and the head of the Division of Humanities and Education at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (State of Mexico Campus). Dr. Gutiérrez is an author of several titles about media and information technologies; and part of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. His interest focuses on the exploration of different media environments.

Moderating the evening’s discussion is Dr. Michael Plugh, President of the MEA and the NYSGS. Dr. Plugh is Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Manhattan College.

We hope you’ll drop in to join us. Registration is free, but all attendees must be registered in order to gain admittance to the club. This includes any guests you might want to bring with you.

The program will take place in the Library on the 2nd floor of the club. Please note that, as an historic 19th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).

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Manipulación ideológica en redes sociales: acoso, engaño y violencia en el entorno digital

Este artículo explora el fenómeno de asunción de identidades en las redes sociales y la influencia que tiene la inteligencia artificial (bots) para que agentes externos logren tomar ventaja de los momentos de vulnerabilidad de diversos sujetos. El tema se aborda desde la perspectiva que ofrecen los estudios de Jacques Lacan y René Girard, con el enfoque de la ecología de medios. La investigación se fundamenta en un análisis particular de manipulación en Twitter en torno del caso de la caravana migrante de 2018 y la propagación del discurso de odio.

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Aquí comparto la liga completa al artículo: https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/18523/7081

Para citar este artículo / to reference this paper / para citar este artigo
Gaal, J. C., Gutiérrez, F. y Miranda, Ó. (2022). Manipulación ideológica en redes sociales: acoso, engaño y violencia en el entorno digital. Palabra Clave, 25(3), e2539. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2022.25.3.9

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Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election

I share this text, derived from the Digital Equity project, in which we work with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the Tecnológico de Monterrey. My thanks to Brandie Nonnecke and Camille Crittenden of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute for their guidance and invaluable support.

Harass, mislead, & polarize...

This study investigates the interaction and messaging tactics of political Twitter bots before an election. We analyzed the strategies of influential bots seeking to affect the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Our findings reveal that the 10 most influential bots in our dataset all presented an anti-immigration viewpoint, and both posted original tweets and retweeted other bot accounts’ tweets to give a false sense of authenticity and anti-immigration consensus. Bots’ messages relied heavily on negative emotional appeals by spreading harassing language and disinformation likely intended to evoke fear toward immigrants. Such accounts also employed polarizing language to entrench political group identity and provoke partisanship. Our findings help to understand the interaction and messaging tactics employed by political bots and suggest potential strategies that may be employed to counter their effectiveness.

This text is freely accessible and may be consulted at the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19331681.2021.2004287

Brandie Nonnecke, Gisela Perez de Acha, Annette Choi, Camille Crittenden, Fernando Ignacio Gutiérrez Cortés, Alejandro Martin Del Campo & Oscar Mario Miranda-Villanueva (2021) Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.2004287

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El uso de internet en las elecciones presidenciales en México, 2018

Comparto el siguiente texto que editaron mis grandes amigos y colegas Octavio Islas y Amaia Arribas sobre el tema de redes sociales en las elecciones presidenciales en México en 2018. En este aparece un texto de mi autoría con un análisis de la situación en México desde la perspectiva de la Ecología de Medios. El texto completo puede descargarse en la siguiente dirección: http://www.cuadernosartesanos.org/2019/cac169.pdf

El uso de internet en las elecciones presidenciales en México
El uso de internet en las elecciones presidenciales en México
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Programa Entre Todos: “Internet y Política”

Comparto este programa que produce el IEEM, en el que tuve la oportunidad de participar con el Tema: “Internet y Política”. Invitado: Dr. Fernando Gutiérrez Cortés, Director de División de la Escuela de Humanidades y Educación del Tecnológico de Monterrey, Estado de México. Conduce: Lupita Juárez.

Fernando Gutiérrez
Fernando Gutiérrez

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Daniel Scheinsohn

Con Daniel Scheinsohn previo al curso de Comunicación Estratégica

Daniel Scheinsohn es doctor en administración de negocios; maestro en administración estratégica de negocios; psicólogo social, con estudios en publicidad; y graduado en inteligencia estratégica por la Escuela Superior de Guerra del Ejército.

Realizó especializaciones y posgrados en ciencias sociales, ciencias políticas, ciencias de la educación, epistemología y ética de las ciencias, metodología de la investigación científica, constructivismo, management, análisis organizacional, negociación, ontología del lenguaje, pensamiento complejo y estrategia. Es coach certificado internacionalmente por ICC.

Investigador en los ámbitos de la estrategia, ciencias de la comunicación, management, marketing, governance y desarrollo competitivo. Catedrático, director y evaluador de carreras de posgrado y maestrías. Presidente y disertante en numerosos congresos internacionales.

Es autor de modelos y sistemas de gestión estudiados, aplicados y premiados internacionalmente y de artículos y libros considerados clásicos y de consulta obligatoria en numerosas universidades del mundo. Entre sus publicaciones se destacan “Comunicación Estratégica®”, “El poder y la acción”, “3GRCO – La Tercera Gran Revolución de la Comunicación en las Organizaciones”, todos ellos de consulta obligatoria en numerosas universidades del mundo.

Se desempeña como académico, consultor internacional, strategy insighter, trainer y coach senior de líderes, organizaciones y equipos de Alta Dirección.

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