Streaming users as temporal publics: recalibrating platform power in Latin America.
This article analyzes how streaming users in Latin America experience time in relation to platforms. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach that employed daily reports of platform usage, focus groups, and "rich picture" analysis, we examine the cases of two countries with some of the highest digital me...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 49 - 60 |
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