Arturo Arriagada

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New article out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social (with Dušan Cotoras).

We examine how AI ethics is negotiated in practice through an ethnographic study of a predictive system developed inside Chile’s Public Defender’s Office.

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(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

New article with @mvaldeb.bsky.social out now in the @jcultecon.bsky.social:

"(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry". shorturl.at/HzPCi

We explore how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure “influence”.

Cover of Handbook of Digital Labour.

This arrived today. There is only one copy which is grrr but it is a thing of beauty. And hard graft. Thanks to all our contributors and my co-editors @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @bltergin.bsky.social and Julie Chen

Merry Christmas Karen!

Grateful to the Public Defender’s Office, GobLab UAI, IDB Lab, and the editors of the special issue Datafied Development: Mohammad Amir Anwar, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, and
@posada.website.

Rather than fixed principles, ethics emerges as a situated, contested process shaped by institutional power, professional imaginaries, and public-sector constraints.

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New article out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social (with Dušan Cotoras).

We examine how AI ethics is negotiated in practice through an ethnographic study of a predictive system developed inside Chile’s Public Defender’s Office.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Grateful to the Public Defender’s Office, GobLab UAI, IDB Lab, and the editors of the special issue Datafied Development: Mohammad Amir Anwar, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, and
@posada.website.

Rather than fixed principles, ethics emerges as a situated, contested process shaped by institutional power, professional imaginaries, and public-sector constraints.

📚 Book Announcement

Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social

(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Luksic Scholarship for Sustainability & Data at the Edinburgh Futures Institute | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration These scholarships will support applicants who are Chilean citizens domiciled in Chile for entry in 2026/2027 for MSc programmes in Data & AI Ethics and Circular Economy at the Edinburgh Futures Insti...

Excellent news: The Luksic Scholarship for Sustainability & Data at the Edinburgh Futures Institute

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New article written by @tomdivon.bsky.social and Tobias Ebbretch-Hartmann in New Media & Society.
What happens when creators, with no historical ties, perform on TikTok as if they were Holocaust victims using trends, dance, and filters?
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Thanks to Ignacio Siles, @slehuede.bsky.social, and the anonymous reviewers for their generous feedback.

Our work expands on Angèle Christin and @sophiebishop.bsky.social research on metrics, payment and brand safety, bringing these debates to Latin America’s fast-growing influencer markets.

Far from neutral intermediaries, agencies shape what “good performance” and “fair value” mean in the influencer economy — reinforcing the power of platforms and intermediaries.

Based on case studies and interviews with Chilean agencies, we show how these firms use opaque metrics and pricing systems to identify, monitor, and manage influencers — often in ways invisible to creators.

(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

New article with @mvaldeb.bsky.social out now in the @jcultecon.bsky.social:

"(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry". shorturl.at/HzPCi

We explore how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure “influence”.

The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance - @producing2power.bsky.social, & @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social (2025). Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In our new article with @producing2power.bsky.social, we examine the tensions and labor dynamics faced by Latin American influencers working in the U.S. Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social.

Patchwork Nation: From Code to Cleaning, AI Is Beginning to Devalue Everyone’s Work AI anxiety is becoming a bipartisan issue. The tech sector was once a seemingly unshakable source of solid employment. Now people who can code are facing the same threats of potential obsolescence as ...

Great piece written by @samshorey.bsky.social www.firesidestacks.com/p/patchwork-...

Digital Platforms and the Global South | Reconfiguring Power Relations This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an

This book is now open access. Happy to have contributed a chapter titled "Chilean Fashion Influencers as Digital Labour: Unpacking the 'Media Kit' as a Market Device." One of my earliest findings from a project exploring Chile's influencer industry.

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

This story is important - but it centers the experiences of passengers. Almost every driver I have talked to - yes, men included - also complain of sexual harassment or assault.

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The new @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Fairwork AI Ratings report shows who powers AI and how Humans in the Loop earned a 6/10 score after 14 policy changes.

@towardsfairwork.bsky.social now offers certification so buyers can demand higher standards across AI supply chains.

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What are the impediments faced by diasporic influencers? Learn about how racial discourses shape and challenge creator cultures in this article from @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @producing2power.bsky.social:

I ask Chat GPT about the concept of Social Media Influencers and it gives me a critical answer, citing the work of different colleagues (Abidin, Bishop, Baym, Duffy, Cotter, Hund, Craig, to give some names) and my own work. I don't know what to think.

CCSN The Content Creator Scholars Network

Now that ICA reviews are out, a reminder that we’re doing a nice big creator culture preconference where your work might fit. Deadline Jan 31 www.ccsn.site/ica

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick Clegg | Semafor Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.

These people never stop giving material for my thesis. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...