EmpiriaPub Date : 2022-01-07DOI: 10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32616
J. Larrú
{"title":"Lo necesario, lo superfluo y la medición de la pobreza","authors":"J. Larrú","doi":"10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32616","url":null,"abstract":"El objetivo de este trabajo es unir la aportación de la filosofía escolástica con la técnica de la medición de la pobreza a fin de clarificar cuánto ingreso debe ser normativamente considerado para adquirir “lo necesario” para vivir. La escolástica ha diferenciado –desde Tomás de Aquino- los bienes necesarios, los socialmente necesarios y los superfluos. Sobre los dos primeros se reconocieron derechos de propiedad usufructuaria, pero no sobre los superfluos. Lo que el trabajo investiga es saber si la línea de pobreza absoluta, nacional o internacional (actualmente establecida en $1,90 diarios en PPP de 2011) da buena cuenta de la capacidad para adquirir “lo necesario”. Rechazada esta opción se propone un Índice de Acceso a lo Necesario y se analizan las consecuencias de políticas públicas que conlleva la ambigüedad de “lo necesario”.\u0000The goal of this work is to combine the contribution of scholastic philosophy with the technique of poverty measurement in order to clarify how much income should be normatively considered in order to acquire \"what is necessary\" to live. Scholasticism has differentiated - from Thomas Aquinas - the necessary, socially necessary and superfluous goods. On the first two rights of usufruct property were recognized, but not on the superfluous ones. What the research investigates is whether the absolute poverty line, national or international (currently set at $ 1.90 per day in PPP 2011) gives a good account of the capability to acquire \"what is necessary\". Once this option is rejected, an Index of Access to the Necessary is proposed and the consequences of public policies that entail the ambiguity of \"what is necessary\" are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85895133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2022-01-07DOI: 10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32610
Biagio Aragona
{"title":"Tipos de big data y análisis sociológico: usos, críticas y problemas éticos","authors":"Biagio Aragona","doi":"10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32610","url":null,"abstract":"Solo con un conocimiento más consciente de los diferentes tipos de big data y sus posibles usos, límites y ventajas la sociología se beneficiará realmente de estas bases empíricas. En este artículo, a partir de una clasificación de los diversos tipos de big data, se describen algunas áreas de uso en la investigación social destacando cuestiones críticas y problemas éticos. Los límites se vinculados a cuestiones fundamentales relativas a la calidad de los big data. Otra cuestión clave se refiere al acceso. Otro aspecto metodológico a tener en cuenta es que los datos digitales en la web deben considerarse no intrusivos. Los métodos de investigación encubiertos ha desafiado la práctica de evaluación ética establecidas adoptadas en la mayoría de las instituciones de investigación: el consentimiento informado. Las pautas éticas digitales no pueden ser universales y estar establecidas de una vez por todas.\u0000Only through expert knowledge of the different types of big data and their possible uses, limits and advantages will sociology benefit from these empirical bases. In this article, based on a classification of the various types of big data, some areas of use in social research are described, highlighting critical questions and ethical problems. The limits are related to fundamental questions regarding the quality of big data. Another paramount issue concerns access. A further methodological aspect is that digital data on the web should be considered non-intrusive. Covert research methods have challenged the established ethical evaluation practice adopted in most research institutions: informed consent. Digital ethical guidelines cannot be universal and established once and for all.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85226143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2022-01-07DOI: 10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32611
Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez
{"title":"Survey Research in Times of Big Data","authors":"Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez","doi":"10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.53.2022.32611","url":null,"abstract":"La encuesta es la técnica de investigación predominante en la investigación en Ciencias Sociales. Sin embargo, la aparición de otras fuentes de datos como las publicaciones en redes sociales o los datos generados por GPS suponen nuevas oportunidades para la investigación. En este escenario, algunas voces han defendido la idea de que, debido a su menor coste y la velocidad a la que se generan, los big data irán sustituyendo progresivamente a los datos de encuesta. Sin embargo, este optimismo contrasta con los problemas de calidad y accesibilidad que presentan los big data como la fata de cobertura de algunos grupos de la población o el acceso restringido a alguna de estas fuentes. Este artículo, a partir de una revisión profunda de la literatura de los últimos años, explora como la cooperación entre los big data y las encuestas resulta en mejoras significativas de la calidad de los datos y una reducción de los costes.\u0000Nowadays, while surveys still dominate the research landscape in social sciences, alternative data sources such as social media posts or GPS data open a whole range of opportunities for researchers. In this scenario, some voices advocate for a progressive substitution of survey data. They anticipate that big data, which is cheaper and faster than surveys, will be enough to answer relevant research questions. However, this optimism contrasts with all the quality and accessibility issues associated with big data such as the lack of coverage or data ownership and restricted accessibility. The aim of this paper is to explore how, nowadays, the combination of big data and surveys results in significant improvements in data quality and survey costs.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77571892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31368
Javier Alcalde Villacampa, Martín Portos García
{"title":"Stop Mare Mortum y el movimiento de solidaridad con las personas refugiadas en Barcelona","authors":"Javier Alcalde Villacampa, Martín Portos García","doi":"10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31368","url":null,"abstract":"Durante el largo verano migratorio de 2015 aumentaba de un modo dramático el nivel de conciencia ciudadana y activismo en Barcelona. En la primavera de 2016, cada día tenían lugar eventos de protesta en solidaridad con las personas refugiadas , promovidos por un amplio espectro de grupos locales, asociaciones y redes. En tanto, un cambio en el gobierno local erigía a una otrora activista social como alcaldesa, asumiendo el tema de las personas refugiadas como una prioridad política. Basado en una serie de entrevistas en profundidad con activistas clave, este artículo presenta, mapea y estudia la evolución de las redes activistas locales. Buscando arrojar luz sobre las dinámicas de meso-movilización, analizamos la plataforma Stop Mare Mortum (SMM). Con un alto nivel de politización y centrándose en las personas refugiadas en tránsito, esta iniciativa nacida de una pequeña red de círculos activistas creció hasta convertirse en una plataforma paraguas con gran capacidad para coordinar iniciativas de la sociedad civil. Junto con una combinación única de emociones y marcos de movilización, la habilidad de SMM para adaptar sus estrategias, repertorios de acción y estructuras organizativas a un contexto cambiante explican su capacidad de movilización y el carácter transversal de sus bases.\u0000The 2015 long summer of migration has increased dramatically the level of citizen awareness and activism in Barcelona. In Spring 2016 a number of protest events in solidarity with refugees were taking place on a daily basis, promoted by a broad range of local groups, associations and networks. In the meantime, a change of government brought a social activist as the new mayor of the city, with the refugees' issue as a top political priority. Based on a number of in-depth interviews with key activists, this article presents, maps and studies the evolution of the local networks. Aiming at shedding light on meso-level mobilization dynamics, we zoom into Stop Mare Mortum. With a high level of politicization and focusing on refugees in transit, this initiative borne out of a small network of activists has gradually become an umbrella platform aiming to coordinate civil society initiatives within this field. Together with a unique combination emotions and frames for mobilization, SMM’s ability to adapt its strategies, repertoires of action and organizational structures to a changing environment explains its mobilization capacity and the cross-cut nature of its constituency.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84317837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31366
M. Jiménez Sánchez, R. Álvarez Pérez, Gomer Betancor Nuez
{"title":"La movilización de los pensionistas en España como proceso de construcción y aprendizaje de una nueva identidad colectiva","authors":"M. Jiménez Sánchez, R. Álvarez Pérez, Gomer Betancor Nuez","doi":"10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31366","url":null,"abstract":"El movimiento de los pensionistas en 2018 supuso la primera movilización multitudinaria basada en una identidad colectiva de personas mayores en España, y mostró una capacidad de contestación popular sin precedentes en el tema de las pensiones. Este trabajo indaga en el proceso de configuración de la identidad colectiva como estrategia analítica que permite entender la aparición y la naturaleza (exitosa) de la movilización. Siguiendo la conceptualización de Melucci, este proceso se analiza desde una doble perspectiva. Por un lado, como estrategia de actores colectivos que persiguen articular la contestación popular a la política de pensiones puestas en marcha durante la Gran Recesión. Aquí, el análisis se centra en identificar el proceso organizativo en el que se sientan las bases identitarias del movimiento, y que se extenderían con éxito en la fase posterior de contestación masiva. Por otro lado, se presta atención a la naturaleza de la identificación entre los propios pensionistas como resultado de procesos de aprendizaje durante sus experiencias de movilización. Para la primera perspectiva, el trabajo se basa en informaciones obtenidas en noticias de prensa sobre las actividades de protesta y en documentos producidos por las organizaciones del movimiento. La perspectiva individual de los participantes se fundamenta en el análisis de los discursos obtenidos en entrevistas personales focalizadas a participantes. Este doble enfoque, como estrategia organizativa intencionada y como proceso de aprendizaje durante la experiencia de la movilización, ofrece informaciones clave para comprender no solo el proceso, inédito en España, de construcción de una voz propia de los pensionistas sino también para indagar en los procesos de aprendizaje y cambio actitudinal que implican para los participantes corrientes. En un sentido más amplio, esta estrategia de análisis permite igualmente, por un lado, ubicar el proceso de movilización de los pensionistas en una trayectoria temporal más amplia de contestación popular y, en particular, vincularlo a los legados del ciclo de movilización que protagonizó el 15-M. Por otro lado, también permite destacar esos procesos de contestación como espacios de aprendizaje en los que se modelan actitudes, valores y demás elementos de la cultura de protesta.\u0000The pensioners' movement in 2018 was the first mass mobilization based on a collective identity of older people in Spain, and showed an unprecedented capacity for popular contestation on the issue of pensions. This paper inquires into the process of collective identity configuration as an analytical strategy that allows us to understand the emergence and (successful) nature of the mobilisation. Following Melucci's conceptualization, this process is analysed from a double perspective. On the one hand, as a strategy of collective actors seeking to articulate popular contestation to the pension policies implemented during the Great Recession. Here, the analysis focuses on iden","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83030348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31365
Alejandro Ciordia, A. Letamendia
{"title":"Using Social Network Analysis to study the Modularity of Protest Forms: The evolution of the Basque Repertoire of Contention (1980- 2014)","authors":"Alejandro Ciordia, A. Letamendia","doi":"10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31365","url":null,"abstract":"Demonstrations, strikes, direct actions, and acts of civil disobedience are just a few examples of the broad set of protest tactics potentially available to citizens in order to raise their demands and call the public’s attention to unjust situations. Each of these forms of claim-making can be more or less modular. Modularity, a concept originally introduced by Sidney Tarrow (1993) and popularized by Charles Tilly (1993, 1995), refers to the adaptability or degree of transferability of protest forms to different circumstances of contention. A protest form is strongly modular when it belongs to the regular repertoire of diverse actors and is employed for the defense of varied issues, against distinct targets, and in different places. Nonetheless, despite the considerable popularity of the concept for theoretical elaboration, its empirical operationalization has so far remained underdeveloped. In this article, building upon the conceptual bases set up by Wada (2012), we lay out a new perspective for the evaluation of the modularity of protest forms. Drawing upon social network analysis, we propose to analyze contingency tables generated from protest event catalogs as two-mode networks, measuring tactical transferability as weighted degree centrality (Opsahl et al. 2010). To demonstrate the usefulness of our proposed operationalization, we examine a large original dataset of protest events, applying our measure in order to evaluate repertoire change in the Basque Country over the last four decades, tracing the evolution of ten different protest forms in terms of actor transferability. Results show a relatively rigid repertoire in which demonstrations appear as dominant, at the same time that symbolic protests have gradually increased its modularity in recent years, at the expense of civil disobedience and violent direct action, which used to be significantly more relevant during the 80s and 90s. In comparison with Wada’s original proposal, the new measure of modularity proposed in this article derives from a more intuitive operationalization and offers an easily interpretable visual representation of the data. These advantages could eventually encourage more empirical research comparing the varying modularity of forms of contention across diverse contexts and periods.\u0000Manifestaciones, huelgas, acciones directas, o actos de desobediencia civil forman parte de un amplio abanico de tácticas de protesta mediante las cuales la población plantea demandas a pie de calle. Cada una de estas formas de acción reivindicativa puede ser más o menos modular. La modularidad, concepto introducido originalmente por Sidney Tarrow (1993) y popularizado por Charles Tilly (1993, 1995), hace referencia a la capacidad de adaptación, o grado de transferibilidad, de cada forma de protesta a diferentes contextos. Es decir, un modo de protesta presenta una alta modularidad si forma parte del repertorio habitual de diversos actores y es utilizado para diferentes causas, contra ","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"132 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73743627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/EMPIRIA.52.2021.31367
Carmen Galdón Corbella
{"title":"“Cuando confluimos, influimos”. Una aproximación a la idea de unidad en el activismo feminista contemporáneo","authors":"Carmen Galdón Corbella","doi":"10.5944/EMPIRIA.52.2021.31367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/EMPIRIA.52.2021.31367","url":null,"abstract":"\"When we converge, we influence\", was a phrase uttered by a veteran feminist. From there, this article explores the idea of unity in feminist activism, testing it through one of the most controversial issues within social movements: political advocacy on institutions. The approach to these issues is conducted on the study of The State March Against Machist Violence, better known as 7N, considered a milestone in recent feminism. This unitary and massive demonstration, which directly challenged the State and its institutions, makes it a privileged field of research to delve into the question posed.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"1 1","pages":"125-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42707684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31364
Nicholas Pohl
{"title":"On the Usefulness of Combining Strike and Protest Research: Some Insights from the Spanish Case (2000-2016)","authors":"Nicholas Pohl","doi":"10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31364","url":null,"abstract":"During the past half century, the study of social contention has been characterized by a division between research on labor movements and studies on other social movements. This division also left its mark on the study of modes of action: while labor scholars mainly examined strikes, social movement scholars have increasingly come to focus on street protests. This article is a contribution to bridging the gap between the two research areas both on theoretical and empirical levels. On a theoretical level, I discuss the usefulness of combining economic and political models of contention from the two research areas. On an empirical level, I use official data provided by Spanish ministries to examine and relate the workers’ use of strikes and street protests between 2000 and 2016 in Spain. Examining strikes and street protests jointly does not only provide a fuller picture, it also helps to discern contrasts and thus the specificities of each mode of action.\u0000En el último medio siglo, los estudios del conflicto social se han caracterizado por una separación entre investigaciones sobre movimientos laborales y estudios sobre otros movimientos sociales. Esta división también dejó su marca en el estudio de los modos de acción: mientras que las sociólogas y los sociólogos del trabajo examinaban principalmente las huelgas, las y los especialistas en movimientos sociales se han centrado cada vez más en las protestas callejeras. Este artículo es una contribución para cerrar la brecha entre las dos áreas de investigación tanto a nivel teórico como empírico. A nivel teórico, se discute la utilidad de combinar modelos económicos y políticos del conflicto social de las dos áreas de investigación. A nivel empírico, se utilizan datos oficiales proporcionados por ministerios españoles para examinar y relacionar el uso de huelgas y manifestaciones callejeras por parte de los trabajadores entre 2000 y 2016 en España. El examen combinado de las huelgas y las protestas callejeras no sólo proporciona una imagen más completa, sino que también ayuda a discernir los contrastes y, por lo tanto, las particularidades de cada modo de acción.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85375223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/EMPIRIA.52.2021.31369
Francisco José Fernández-Trujillo Moares, Javier Gil García
{"title":"Mecanismos y dinámicas del trabajo en las plataformas digitales: los casos de Airbnb y de las plataformas de reparto","authors":"Francisco José Fernández-Trujillo Moares, Javier Gil García","doi":"10.5944/EMPIRIA.52.2021.31369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/EMPIRIA.52.2021.31369","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper analyses the ways of working and modes of production that configure digital platforms. It argues that different forms of work can emerge in these, but that all of them respond to the transformations of contemporary neoliberalism. The forms in which their configurations and those of their productive processes are given, promote new forms of work and production that break with the standard models to generate new ways of producing surplus value. The paper focuses on the cases of Airbnb and various food delivery and messenger platforms. Some of the characteristics that can be observed are that it is a type of invisible, entrepreneurial work that arises from the reproductive aspect, that is articulated on the basis of unpaid work time, that promotes dynamics of individualization and isolation in the development of this activity or that generates a paradoxical relationship between the feelings of autonomy and freedom as self-employed workers as opposed to a strong deployment of mechanisms of control and organization of work. In order to carry out this research, open semi-structured interviews were conducted with Airbnb hosts and Deliveroo, Glovo, Uber Eats and Stuart deliverers.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"1 1","pages":"175-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49628945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmpiriaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31370
Alberto Quian
{"title":"Observación participante en una organización de filtraciones periodísticas: el caso WikiLeaks","authors":"Alberto Quian","doi":"10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31370","url":null,"abstract":"Para explicar los procesos de una comunidad virtual de filtraciones de documentos secretos utilizamos el método de observación participante, introduciéndonos en la red de colaboradores de WikiLeaks. De este modo, intentamos describir los procesos de creación de noticias en estos entornos emergentes mediante la observación del espacio virtual en el que se trabaja, los instrumentos y procedimientos con los que se opera y los flujos de comunicación e información que se generan en este. El objetivo es contribuir a ampliar el conocimiento sobre los roles emergentes de investigador en la observación en línea y, particularmente, describir el funcionamiento de comunidades virtuales confidenciales, además de aportar nuevas claves metodológicas para los estudios con un enfoque en el newsmaking.\u0000To explain the processes of a virtual community working with secret leaked documents, we use the participant observation method entering into the WikiLeaks’ collaborators network. In this way, we attempt to describe the processes of newsmaking in these emerging environments by observing the virtual space in which it works, the tools and procedures that normally are used, and the communication and information flows generated in it. The aim of this paper is to contribute to broaden knowledge about the emerging roles of researcher using online observation —and particularly in confidential virtual communities—, and to provide new methodological keys for studies focused on newsmaking.","PeriodicalId":54034,"journal":{"name":"Empiria","volume":"235 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77814327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}