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Ignacio Siles begins work as a Visiting Fellow at the Chair of Media and Communication Studies.

NEW VISITING FELLOW IN THE DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

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Ignacio Siles (PhD, Northwestern University) is a professor of media and technology studies in the School of Communication and researcher in the Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) at Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of "Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica" (MIT Press, 2023), "A Transnational History of the Internet in Central America, 1985–2000" (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and "Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France" (2017, Peter Lang), along with several articles on the relationship between technology, communication, and society.

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Credit: Ricardo Arce

The Digital Media and Society Fellowship Program enables research stays at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University and aims to strengthen collaboration with international scholars in the study of networked communication and digital media. The program focuses on the following areas:
(1) Media Culture Research, especially media-related forms of practice in their cultural, sociotechnical, and temporal contexts;
(2) Digital Communication, particularly the production and appropriation of digitally networked media technologies and communication forms;
(3) Media Analysis, with a focus on reconstructing media content, its (multimodal, transmedia) forms of representation, and discursive formations across different forms of communication and media systems.

The Fellowship Program is hosted by the Chair of Media and Communication Studies and funded by Leipzig University. It covers travel expenses and accommodation in Leipzig. Fellows are provided with a workspace at the Chair of Media and Communication Studies.