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BlueskySociologist & Data Analyst
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Government at UAI Chile, where I study the structural properties of elite networks in the use of cultural influence as a global-scale resource. I am also a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at UC Chile, where I teach courses in social network analysis, text analysis and mining, quantitative methods, research design, cultural sociology, and social theory.
My current research examines the role of cultural elites in the formation of contemporary art markets, drawing on data from 15 countries and using advanced computational techniques. My interest is to understand, from a structural and analytical perspective, the determinants and mechanisms of cultural influence exercised by international tastemakers in the intermediation process between institutions, actors, cultural objects, and national contexts that enable the emergence of a highly stratified system.
Methodologically, the project combines Structural Topic Models (STM) with Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM and MERGM), applied to large-scale unstructured historical data curated and preprocessed through a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline.
Main areas of interest: Computational Social Sciences, Social Network Analysis, Text Analysis and Mining, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Elites, Sociology of Knowledge, Social Theory
Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French
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