Publications

Making sense has been quite argued in Latin American Studies in Social Com- munication. Since Jesús Martin Bar- bero introduced his text “De los me- dios a las mediaciones” (1989), sense has started a complex and struggled path for being assumed as the object of study in Communication. However, its applicability has been limited to an only area of this domain: cultural pro- cess. Nevertheless, as it will be presen- ted in this paper, is possible ...

Street children’s social media profiles and posts reveal their understanding of Facebook affordances, comprising risk and opportunity. Street children and youth are keen users of Facebook, although their use patterns have been poorly studied around the globe. To select Bolivian street children’s Facebook profiles there was first an exploratory search to see which of the first author’s street-connected friends had an active profile. Social media ...

Through a sensemaking lens, this article investigates the concrete appropriation of the so-called transdisciplinary learning communities-approach (TLC for short) as part of a Flemish–Bolivian university cooperation project for development. The article has its empirical basis in ethnographic research conducted between 2017 and 2020 on four campuses of the Bolivian university UCB. The primary data is the so-called organisational talk, gathered ...

Collaborative water governance deals with diverse actors under participatory systems of decision making. This form of water governance involves stakeholders with fundamentally different values and premises about water resources, as well as different understandings of the problem and how to approach it. Thus, one of the major challenges of collaborative water governance relies on the diversity of frames carried by stakeholders involved and the ...