Journey with Jesús (and beyond): self-analysis of social media research

Abstract

Beginning with the title, “beyond” is a reference to the (sacred) figure of the intellectual leading to broad theoretical flights, as opposed to the profane figure of the man Jesús. Also, the progress of my trajectory towards the frontiers for Martín-Barbero's Theory of Mediations: from Latin American and British cultural studies to audience critical ethnography, history of mentalities, sociology of reproduction and gender theories. To show the impact of the expertise in Communication and its metaphors of the night map in the investigations on the uses of the media taking into account the problematic of the inequalities. I conclude  proposing questions about the dynamics of digital convergence and its new challenges for addressing cultural and political conflicts. The following speech is a palimpsest, was scraped and washed off in the industrial rhythm of academic work. For this reason, I preserve the oral character of this text drawn up without the concern of referring all the sources that supported it, even if giving proper names to the origin of the ideas systematized here.Beginning with the title, “beyond” is a reference to the (sacred) figure of the intellectual leading to broad theoretical flights, as opposed to the profane figure of the man Jesús. Also, the progress of my trajectory towards the frontiers for Martín-Barbero's Theory of Mediations: from Latin American and British cultural studies to audience critical ethnography, history of mentalities, sociology of reproduction and gender theories. To show the impact of the expertise in Communication and its metaphors of the night map in the investigations on the uses of the media taking into account the problematic of the inequalities. I conclude  proposing questions about the dynamics of digital convergence and its new challenges for addressing cultural and political conflicts. The following speech is a palimpsest, was scraped and washed off in the industrial rhythm of academic work. For this reason, I preserve the oral character of this text drawn up without the concern of referring all the sources that supported it, even if giving proper names to the origin of the ideas systematized here.