Pablo Beytía- PhD
- Adjunct Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Pablo Beytía
- PhD
- Adjunct Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Researching digital culture: open knowledge, social memory, discursive structures, and platform power.
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Introduction
Pablo Beytía is an Adjunct Professor of Computational Social Science and Digital Sociology at the Catholic University of Chile. His research focuses on socio-digital phenomena (e.g., platforms, public attention, discourse, social memory, and AI) through an interdisciplinary perspective that connects social sciences, computer science, and the humanities.
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March 2017 - November 2024
November 2021 - present
February 2021 - June 2022
Education
February 2017 - October 2024
January 2013 - January 2016
January 2010 - April 2011
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Publications (57)
La palabra ‘libertad’ ha estado vinculada a numerosas ambivalencias a lo largo de la historia. ¿Se asocia a una facultad inherente a todo ser humano o a un fenómeno contingente? ¿Se limita a la capacidad para decidir acciones o incluye el control de los deseos? ¿Significa autodeterminación o ausencia de interferencia? Estas tensiones atraviesan la...
Wikipedia is the most widely used online reference in the world, offering over 60 million articles in more than 320 languages. Major tech companies utilize it to train influential AI systems and rest on it to define facts. Despite its reach, limited discussion exists about the overarching discourse it promotes regarding humanity. This is surprising...
We propose the development of 'digital reflexive sociology', understood as the use of digital methods and Big Data to reflect on the social and historical circumstances of sociologists and sociological thinking. To show this approach's potential, we employ Wikipedia as a ‘reflexive tool’, i.e., an external artefact of self-observation that can help...
Wikipedia, a collaborative crowd-sourced platform, is the largest, most visited online encyclopedia. Since it spreads information freely in more than 300 languages, many users, tools, and dashboards rely on its content. Hence, there is a need to maintain its fairness and completeness. However, previous research has indicated the existence of a sign...
The gender gap in Wikipedia content is a complex phenomenon that comprises several asymmetries, discursive dimensions, and social concerns. However, there is no theoretical framework to organise this complexity consistently. Based on writings by Foucault, Deleuze and Tkacz, we interpret Wikipedia as a 'field of visibility' and provide a framework t...
Wikipedia biographies are an influential form of social memory about human beings. This article describes a systematic method to explore the structure of this memory in biographies of people with the same nationality. The results are exemplified by analyzing the biographies of notable Chileans across generations.
Wikipedia, a collaborative crowd-sourced platform, is the largest, most visited online encyclopedia. Since it spreads information freely in more than 300 languages, many users, tools, and dashboards rely on its content. Hence, there is a need to maintain its fairness and completeness. However, previous research has indicated the existence of a sign...
Wikipedia, a collaborative crowd-sourced platform, is the largest, most visited online encyclopedia. Since it spreads information freely in more than 300 languages, many users, tools, and dashboards rely on its content. Hence, there is a need to maintain its fairness and completeness. However, previous research has indicated the existence of a sign...
The gender gap in Wikipedia content is a complex phenomenon that comprises several asymmetries, discursive dimensions, and social concerns. However, there is no theoretical framework to organise this complexity consistently. Based on writings by Foucault, Deleuze and Tkacz, we interpret Wikipedia as a 'field of visibility' and provide a framework t...
The gender gap in Wikipedia content is a complex phenomenon that comprises several asymmetries, discursive dimensions, and social concerns. However, there is no theoretical framework to organise this complexity consistently. Based on writings by Foucault, Deleuze and Tkacz, we interpret Wikipedia as a 'field of visibility' and provide a framework t...
This article presents the Networked Pantheon, a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history. This information source is intended to complement Pantheon 1.0 (Yu et al., 2016), a dataset that includes temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational information on 11,341 world-renowned people...
This article proposes that an appropriate assessment of the geographical bias in multilingual Wikipedia's content should consider not only the number of articles linked to places but also their internal positioning - i.e. their location in different languages and their centrality in the network of references between articles. This idea is studied e...
We already know which countries have controlled the spread of COVID-19 better and what "good practices" have enabled them to do so. Eventually, some of these policies could be replicated in other countries. But it is not enough to make a well-informed public intervention. We also need quickly available indicators of how actively populations are res...
This article proposes that an appropriate assessment of the geographical bias in Wikipedia's content should consider not only the number of articles linked to places but also their internal positioning –i.e. their location in different languages and their centrality in the network of references between articles–. This idea is studied empirically, s...
This article proposes that an appropriate assessment of the geographical bias in Wikipedia's content should consider not only the number of articles linked to places but also their internal positioning (i.e. their location in different languages and their centrality in the network of references between articles). This idea is studied empirically, s...
En nuestra época es habitual que se hable sobre la 'libertad'. Pareciera tratarse de una idea uniforme y sencilla, que podría intuirse fácilmente en una conversación cotidiana. Si prestamos la atención suficiente, sin embargo, notaremos que se trata de un concepto altamente equívoco y ambivalente, cuyo significado suele escurrirse a pesar de nuestr...
We propose the development of ‘digital reflexive sociology’, understood as the use of digital methods and Big Data to reflect on the social and historical conditions of sociologists and sociological thinking. The potential of this approach is shown by analysing the collective patterns of the 500 most notable sociologists on Wikipedia –i.e. those wh...
Networked Pantheon is a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history.
Four files are included in this folder:
1. Nodes.cvs: text document with information on the 11,340 people who have their biography in more than 25 different languages from Wikipedia. This information is based on th...
This article presents Networked Pantheon, a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history. This source of information is intended to complement Pantheon 1.0 (Yu et. al. 2016), a biographical dataset that includes temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational information on 11,341 world-ren...
This article presents Networked Pantheon, a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history. This source of information is intended to complement Pantheon 1.0 (Yu et. al. 2016), a biographical dataset that includes temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational information on 11,341 world-ren...
This project seeks to describe the distribution of historical information collected in Wikipedia's biographical record, explaining the historical account implicit in this digital storage and analyzing if it could evidence a specific form of cultural power.
The project follows four specific objectives:
1. Understand sociologically the processing o...
Este artículo busca exponer sistemáticamente la estrecha relación entre los vínculos familiares y la felicidad. El argumento se desarrolla en cuatro secciones. Primero, se busca sistematizar la literatura sobre la relación entre los vínculos sociales (en general) y la felicidad, esbozando un modelo teórico a partir de dicha evidencia. Posteriorment...
This chapter compares the development of Latin American countries with that of traditionally developed nations, based on several international indicators of well-being and sustainability that have emerged in the last decade. It is argued that in Latin America there is a specific type of development, which could be understood as an alternative path...
Este artículo busca exponer sistemáticamente la estrecha relación entre los vínculos familiares y la felicidad. El argumento se desarrolla en cuatro secciones. Primero, se busca sistematizar la literatura sobre la relación entre los vínculos sociales (en general) y la felicidad, esbozando un modelo teórico a partir de dicha evidencia. Posteriorment...
Este artículo busca exponer sistemáticamente la estrecha relación entre los vínculos familiares y la felicidad. El argumento se desarrolla en cuatro secciones. Primero, se busca sistematizar la literatura sobre la relación entre los vínculos sociales (en general) y la felicidad, esbozando un modelo teórico a partir de dicha evidencia. Posteriorment...
The analytical and aggregative form in which multidimensional poverty is currently being investigated could be fruitfully complemented with a relational-reticular approach, which studies the structure of linkages between different types of deprivation and identifies the emergent properties of poverty. This paper defines the methodological steps of...
Este artículo revisa la teoría de la evolución histórica de Carl Schmitt, usando como hilo conductor sus escritos sobre el concepto de nomos. En ellos se distinguen los estadios históricos por un modo específico de ordenar el territorio y un particular imaginario colectivo sobre el espacio, elementos que tienen consecuencias jurídicas, políticas y...
This chapter compares the development of Latin American countries with that of traditionally developed nations, based on several international indicators of well-being and sustainability that have emerged in the last decade. It is argued that in Latin America there is a specific type of development, which could be understood as an alternative path...
Entre marzo y abril de 1965, el reconocido politólogo e historiador de las ideas Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) dictó una serie de conferencias sobre los orígenes del pensamiento romántico que fueron recopiladas, editadas y publicadas póstumamente bajo el título de 'Las raíces del romanticismo'. Esta publicación, aún bastante inadvertida en las humanida...
This paper reviews the foundations of Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarianism and the main criticisms to this doctrine, especially those which deem it incompatible with unconditional respect of human rights. Bentham’s Panopticon, his proposal on prison reform published in the late eighteenth century, is discussed. Based on the analysis of the Panopticon -w...
Este artículo revisa los fundamentos del utilitarismo de Jeremy Bentham y las principales críticas a esta doctrina, profundizando en aquella que sostiene su incompatibilidad con el respeto irrestricto de los derechos humanos. Insertándose en esta problemática, analiza una paradigmática propuesta política del filósofo inglés: el panóptico, proyecto...
This chapter compares the development of Latin American countries with that of traditionally developed nations, based on several international indicators of well-being and sustainability that have emerged in the last decade. It is argued that in Latin America there is a specific type of development, which could be understood as an alternative path...
A los diecisiete años de edad, Friedrich Nietzsche escribió "Fatum e historia" , un ensayo que explora los fundamentos teóricos de la acción humana y que hasta el momento no ha sido debatido en las ciencias sociales. En este artículo se sistematiza la teoría implícita en ese ensayo, para luego clasificarla al interior de las distintas corrientes te...
Reseña del libro de Charles Taylor, publicado en 2006 por editorial Paidós.
Latin America is a region with less economic and human development than Western Europe and the United States, but tends to show higher levels of happiness. Is that inconsistent? This article reviews the individual conditions that favor happiness of the Latin Americans and how they could explain the apparent contradiction in the macrosocial indicato...
El objetivo de este capítulo es observar la estructura interna de la pobreza multidimensional en Chile, entendiendo la pobreza como un fenómeno complejo que se manifiesta como una red de privaciones vinculadas entre sí, y que dicha red presenta propiedades que no serían observadas al analizar dichas privaciones por separado o sumadas entre sí. Para...
At seventeen years old, Nietzsche wrote Fate and history, an essay that explores the theoretical foundations of human action and so far has not been discussed in the social sciences. In this paper, the implicit theory of Fate and history is systematized and then classified within the different schools of thought on the human action. It is argued, f...
En este artículo se revisan y comparan entre sí tres enfoques teóricos que pretenden explicar la prosperidad de los países. Cada uno de ellos destaca el impacto de una dimensión particular de factores influyentes: geografía, cultura o institucionalidad. Luego de mostrar las compatibilidades e incompatibilidades entre estos enfoques, se propone que...
Este artículo explora la posibilidad de utilizar los hallazgos científicos sobre la felicidad en las políticas públicas. Parte discutiendo los fundamentos conceptuales, epistemológicos y metodológicos de la emergente ciencia de la felicidad, para luego proponer una forma específica de aplicación política de estos descubrimientos científicos. Poster...
Históricamente el significado de la palabra ‘libertad’ ha estado vinculado a una serie de ambivalencias conceptuales. ¿Se asocia a una facultad inherente a todo ser humano o a una propiedad que depende de las circunstancias en que cada quien esté situado? ¿Implica únicamente la posibilidad de decidir acciones, o también de escoger los deseos? ¿Se e...
Una de las principales descripciones del ser humano realizadas por Heidegger está contenida en su analítica existencial del Dasein. Desde ella, el filósofo alemán interpreta al hombre como un ente abierto al mundo, y al mundo como horizonte de totalidad de los entes disponibles para el hombre. Esta formulación plantea un vínculo de copertenencia en...
El presente artículo revisa la teoría de la evolución histórica de Carl Schmitt, usando como hilo conductor sus escritos sobre el concepto de nomos. En ellos se distinguen los estadios históricos por un modo
específico de ordenar el territorio y un particular imaginario colectivo sobre el espacio, elementos que tienen consecuencias jurídicas, polít...
Las teorías sobre el poder presentan un dilema teórico. Algunas consideran que mientras mayor es el grado de poder de un agente, menor libertad tienen quienes quedan sometidos a él. Otras sugieren justamente lo contrario: la mayor libertad de los dominados implica un superior poder del agente dominante. Este artículo revisa la teoría del poder de J...
Pontificia Universidad católica de chile, santiago, chile resUmen En este ensayo se revisan las principales propuestas epistemológicas de Pierre Bour-dieu desde la perspectiva que él mismo ha propuesto para leer a un autor, esto es, comprendiendo que todo el que escribe lo hace desde una posición en un campo social que determina su propia manera de...
En esta entrevista el profesor Hans Joas fue invitado a explicar su postura frente a algunos problemas clásicos —siempre vigentes e inagotablemente reformulados— de la teoría social y de las ciencias sociales. Acción, modernidad, progreso, contingencia, valores, derechos humanos, metodología y demarcación científica, son sólo algunos de los temas q...
In this interview, Professor Hans Joas was invited to explain his position in the face of some classic, always valid and inexhaustibly reformulated problems of social theory and social sciences. Action, modernity, progress, contingency, values, human rights, methodology and scientific demarcation are just some of the issues discussed here. The main...
En el año 2006 fueron publicadas en castellano dos obras de Charles Taylor, la muy citada Fuentes del yo: la construcción de la identidad moderna y un libro de pretensiones más cautas y con menor impacto académico, pero no por ello menos iluminador: Imaginarios sociales modernos. El propósito de este último es describir cómo las personas de Occiden...
El interes en medir la felicidad es compartido por muchas autoridades, academicos y profesionales comprometidos con mejorar el bienestar no monetario de las personas. Organismos internacionales como la OCDE y la ONU apoyan oficialmente la implementacion de mediciones de felicidad y bienestar subjetivo. Chile y otros paises como Butan, Francia e Ing...
El presente ensayo interpreta y sistematiza las principales explicaciones y descripciones de la sociedad contemporánea propuestas por Niklas Luhmann en su obra cúlmine, La sociedad de la sociedad. La Edad Moderna habría llegado fundamentalmente por dos procesos: diferenciación funcional de sistemas (dimensión estructural) y masificación de la impre...
