Autoridades interpretativas: una perspectiva teórica sobre datificación y producción de sentido

Irene Lis Gindin; Gastón Cingolani; Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat

doi:10.5294/pacla.2021.24.3.6

Authors

Irene Lis Gindin Author Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Argentina; Centro de Investigaciones en Mediatizaciones, Universidad Nacional de Rosario https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3080-0207
Gastón Cingolani Author Instituto de Investigación y Experimentación en Arte y Crítica, Universidad Nacional de las Artes https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1075-7114
Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat Author Sheffield Hallam University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8391-3638

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2021.24.3.6

Keywords:

Datafication, gap, mediatization, sense, theory

Abstract

This article emerges at the interface between current literature —mostly Anglo-Saxon— on datafication and Eliseo Verón’s perspective, seen as a Latin American contribution that offers theoretical and empirical opportunities for the critical discussion of datafication processes. Following the Veronian view, reflection on data production, circulation, and recognition helps denature the idea that data are neutral or compact to make visible the conditions from which these data are provided with meaning as socially and culturally situated discursive constructs. Compared to other Anglo-Saxon standpoints that seem more prevalent in academia —such as Hall’s encoding/decoding model–, this article revisits Verón’s meaning-circulation connection as an alternative to describe the interpretation processes that consolidate data as speeches. Therefore, it provides a starting point for further theoretical developments and empirical research and broadens Eliseo Verón’s perspective to add to and enrich open debates on datafication and its forms of discrimination.

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Author Biography

Irene Lis Gindin, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Argentina; Centro de Investigaciones en Mediatizaciones, Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Investigadora Asistente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Licenciada y Doctora en Comunicación por la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina). Investigadora y docente de la Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales (Rosario-Argentina). Ha publicado el libro "Mi aparente fragilidad. La identidad en el discurso de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: 2007-2011" (2019, Prometeo). Sus investigaciones se encuentran publicadas en revistas nacionales e internacionales.

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