Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In this work we propose to analyze the journalistic coverage around the indigenous peoples of Argentina in 15 digital national information portals. In this framework, we developed an exploratory-descriptive methodological strategy that contemplated: survey of cases, systematization, analysis, and interpretation of informative productions on indigenous peoples published between January, February, and March 2021. As a result, we observed a great invisibility of the agendas and realities of these groups, and the preponderance of the conflict frame in news constructions.

This investigation traces the history of rock music in Nicaragua since the roots, that is 1930’s when the notion of Nicaraguan national culture is built. The role of music in different critical moments of recent Nicaraguan history is explored with respect to the importance of radio in spreading and popularizing determined music genres and political messages. Based on personal interviews and analysis of video-documents we describe the political tendencies within the community around alternative and rock music after the year 1990. The nineties show to be a decade of generational rupture when rock becomes an anti-system movement and a platform of alternative culture and expression of political dissidence, which, at the same time, shows continuity with the political thinking of the previous generation.

Marcos Yauri Montero (1930) is a writer who belongs to the Peruvian Andean narrative. One of his novels is Maria Colon (1980), which deals with the refoundation of the Uco town after a flood that caused its destruction. The objective of this article is to analyze the status of the main characters of the Colon family according to the elements that define them in the course of the novel. For this purpose, a critical reading of the novel is carried out through the use of theoretical contributions related to memory, letter and migration. On the hand, Maria Colon seeks to recover the memory of Uco and refounds the town; in addition, Cayetano Colon writes a manuscript that narrates the history of Uco from the vision of the vanquished; finally, Zeferino Colon and Manuel Colon experience different degrees of migration that have, finally, the return to their homelands as their destination. The work concludes that Yauri Montero’s novel addresses thematic lines that are key to understanding the content of contemporary Andean narrative. 

YouTube is a space for the dissemination of languages. In this article, we study the discourses on the teaching and learning of Aymara on the social network called YouTube, in videos created by institutions, independent groups and users in general in Bolivia. For this purpose, a discursive analysis of the comments made by cybernauts or followers is carried out. The research concludes that this is a case of linguistic activism in social networks, which is valued by their followers, while transmitting criticisms based on linguistic ideologies about language and its use.

The main objective of this essay is to show the main characteristics of informal employment in Peru before the bicentennial. From the review of various studies in this regard, it can be concluded that informal workers in the country are characterized by low income, low productivity and low educational level. In addition, everything would indicate that informality in Peru is structural, so reforms such as reducing taxes, costs and formalization procedures will only have marginal effects. The solution would be centered mainly on diversifying production, stimulating demand and increasing productivity in smaller production units, which is where most of the informal workers are concentrated.

Studies on migrations and migrants are especially aimed at identifying the problems that arise in the journeys from the place of origin and arrival to the planned space, however, they are usually influenced by narratives taken uncritically, in this case from the IOM. The study aims to analyze and identify the metaphors and sentences that reveal a certain ideological-discursive trend related to the so-called Governance in the document Highlights of the 2020 Annual Report offered by this organization. Based on this analysis, concepts were identified that together with others make up a virtuous equation, a process that entails, due to the level of expertise in its composition, an unquestionable degree of veracity, since they are located in what is called politically correct in the multiculturalism. In this way, the IOM narratives create a virtual migrant under the so-called data economy.

This paper examines the relationship between digital transformation and bioethics, drawing on insights from feminist theories of technology (TFT). The overall aim is to enrich the philosophical debate on biopolitical challenges (Bratton, 2021) that demand a robust bioethics, such as ecological catastrophe or the medicalization of life (Mainetti, 1990). The specific objectives are twofold: firstly, to explore the need to reinvigorate bioethics conceptually by reconnecting it with its neglected cybernetic origins (Potter, 1971), using concepts such as «antinaturalism» (Hester, 2019) and «antigenealogy» (Preciado, 2020). Secondly, to investigate the emergence of a «bioethification» (Calvo, 2019) that reflects the ethics of the mediations between humans, algorithms, and nature, using the notions of «care» (Nurock, 2020) and «dilemma» (Gilligan, 1982). In the first case, TFT allows us to avoid the moral absolutism of both technology and nature, without falling into their absolute relativization. In the second case, by analyzing AI devoted to care, TFT clarifies the impact of algorithmic systems on the development of moral competencies.

The study analyzes the policies of social and cultural inclusion in universities in Ancash, Peru. Socioculturally, Ancash has always been diverse; currently, ancestral cultural traditions are still in practice, and there are more than 500,000 Quechua speakers. There are five universities in Ancash, two public universities with degrees and three private universities, one with degrees and two without. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. The results report that only one public university carries out two initial actions of sociocultural inclusion with an intercultural perspective: the incorporation of Quechua and some Andean culture topics in the curriculum, and the access of students from rural communities to the university through a special admission exam. However, intercultural teachers do not have the required profile. Thus, Ancash universities show a lack of greater commitment and coherence with the sociocultural and sociolinguistic diversity of the region and the country. Therefore, innovative, reflective, inclusive and intercultural universities are needed to train competent human resources in, with and for diversity.

What do we mean when we say that algorithms are capable of predicting what is going to happen and anticipating our actions? In the following article I will analyse the phenomena of algorithmic prediction and behavioural anticipation, explaining their convergence in contemporary techniques of predictive analytics. First, I will deal with some possible misconceptions about the predictive capacities of algorithms by delving into probability theory. Secondly, I will take Bernard Stiegler’s post-phenomenological theory of algorithmic governmentality as a model to explain their capacity for behavioural anticipation. Lastly, I will present Mark Hansen’s Whiteheadian reading of predictive analytics, in which he provides a way to understand the ontological basis of the power of these algorithmic systems and also highlight their epistemological limits. Besides the theoretical purposiveness of this account, in the conclusion I will argue that this also provides us with new tools to extend Stielger’s pharmacological project further, opening up the possibility of thinking about ways in which algorithmic prediction could be implemented towards positive outcomes.

Given the current conditions of complexity, we consider it fundamental to question how to understand what is being implemented under the idea of the «new normal» in the formulation of daily life which implies its establishment. We recognize that this daily life has been expropriated from its actors through the most invasive and homogenizing technological operation that has operated globally until today, condensed in the conceptual character known as the «algorithm». The thesis of this essay argues that daily life in the so-called new normal is globally mediated by algorithm management and, in its effects, constitutes the establishment of a totalitarian and altericidal project of planetary character. In this sense, the purpose of this writing was to reflect on how this altericidal project underlies the establishment of a life channeled by «the algorithm» and its pretension of rationality. It is concluded that the current algorithmic governance and its digitalization consolidate the deprivation of human agency, which sets the urgency of looking for effective ways to intervene in this regard.