
Mora MatassiNorthwestern University | NU · Department of Communication Studies
Mora Matassi
PhD candidate
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August 2017 - June 2018
Education
March 2011 - July 2015
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Publications (8)
How systematic comparative research can unlock the potential of social media scholarship.
Though diverse and fruitful, social media scholarship too often focuses on single platforms in single countries, disconnected from other media that people use. Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski's alternative approach offers a framework based on the epistemo...
We analyze how the size and composition of social media repertoires is associated with key sociodemographic variables: age, gender, socioeconomic status, education, and occupation. Specifically, we ask what is the association between these variables and: (a) social media use as a whole, (b) the number of platforms people include in their social med...
In face of public discourses about the negative effects that social media might have on democracy in Latin America, this article provides a qualitative assessment of existing scholarship about the uses, actors, and effects of platforms for democratic life. Our findings suggest that, first, campaigning, collective action, and electronic government a...
Este trabajo presenta un análisis de la bibliografía existente sobre redes sociales en Iberoamérica, con el objetivo de organizar las principales temáticas cubiertas, relevar sus hallazgos, y proponer caminos futuros de investigación. Las cuatro áreas temáticas que se destacan son: comunicación política y gobierno electrónico; periodismo y medios t...
This article analyzes the domestication of WhatsApp among Argentine individuals going through young, middle, and late adulthood, drawing on 158 semi-structured interviews and a 700-person survey. Findings show variance in domestication processes related to the different life stages that users belong to. Young adults (18–34 years, in our sample) ado...
This paper draws upon 50 interviews and a survey (N = 700) to understand how young people in Argentina manage the proliferation of social media platforms in their everyday lives. Applying work on repertoires, niche theory, polymedia, and media ideologies, we explore how users’ practices are shaped by constellations of meaning attributed to each pla...
Incidental consumption of news on social media has risen in recent years, particularly among young people. Previous studies have characterized what the main dimensions and effects of this phenomenon are. In this article, we complement that literature by looking at how this phenomenon unfolds. Inspired by practice theory, we aim to answer two questi...