Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Overview
Andrea is a Post Doctoral Fellow in Digital Cultures and Societies at the University of Queensland . She got her PhD at USC Annenberg, and is originally from Colombia. Broadly, her research interests lie at the intersection of media and Science and Technology Studies.She studies mobilities; cultures of transnational, remote work; on-demand workers and freelancers; feminized maintenance of workspaces; media tales of tech; civic social media in Latin America.
Her research can be found in New Media and Society, the International Journal of Communication, Mass Communication & Society, and in the edited volume Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A Casebook. She has also conducted research with the IDRC and USAID in projects about the "future of work" in the "Global South".
Research Interests
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online labour
Specifically digital nomads, location-independent workers, remote work, and virtual assistants - transnational communication
- supply chain capitalism
- ethnography
- Latin America
- Science and Technology Studies
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Communication Studies, University of Southern California
- Doctor of Philosophy of Communication and Media Studies, University of Southern California
- Masters (Coursework) of Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology, University of Oxford
- Bachelor of Journalism, University of Florida
Publications
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Journal Article: The sociotechnical imaginaries of 1968
Alarcon, Andrea, Altrudi, Soledad, Corry, Frances and Forelle, M.C. (2022). The sociotechnical imaginaries of 1968. International Journal of Communication, 4739-4757.
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Journal Article: The usefulness of open events: navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups
Alarcon, Andrea (2022). The usefulness of open events: navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups. New Media and Society, 1-17. doi: 10.1177/14614448211072827
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Book Chapter: Everyone wants peace?: contending imaginaries in the Colombian context of peace creation
Alarcón, Andrea (2020). Everyone wants peace?: contending imaginaries in the Colombian context of peace creation. Popular culture and the civic imagination: case studies of creative social change. (pp. 109-116) edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro and Sangita Shresthova. New York, NY, United States: New York University Press. doi: 10.18574/nyu/9781479891252.003.0012
Publications
Book Chapter
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Everyone wants peace?: contending imaginaries in the Colombian context of peace creation
Alarcón, Andrea (2020). Everyone wants peace?: contending imaginaries in the Colombian context of peace creation. Popular culture and the civic imagination: case studies of creative social change. (pp. 109-116) edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro and Sangita Shresthova. New York, NY, United States: New York University Press. doi: 10.18574/nyu/9781479891252.003.0012
Journal Article
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The sociotechnical imaginaries of 1968
Alarcon, Andrea, Altrudi, Soledad, Corry, Frances and Forelle, M.C. (2022). The sociotechnical imaginaries of 1968. International Journal of Communication, 4739-4757.
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The usefulness of open events: navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups
Alarcon, Andrea (2022). The usefulness of open events: navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups. New Media and Society, 1-17. doi: 10.1177/14614448211072827
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Alarcon, Andrea (2020). Book review essay on Nell Haynes, Social Media in Northern Chile and Juliano Spyer, Social Media in Emergent Brazil. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 3 (1), 165-169. doi: 10.1080/25729861.2020.1780696
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Alarcon, Andrea, Baik, Jeeyun and Kim, Do Own (Donna) (2019). “Everyone Deserves a Smartphone?”: Understanding the Media’s Legitimation of Mobile Technology Use by Syrian Refugees. Mass Communication and Society, 22 (6), 779-803. doi: 10.1080/15205436.2019.1666993
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Convening technologies: blockchain and the music industry
Baym, Nancy, Swartz, Lana and Alarcon, Andrea (2019). Convening technologies: blockchain and the music industry. International Journal of Communication, 13, 402-421.
