Professor and researcher Francisco Albarello continues his work with a series of publications, presentations, and studies that delve into how young Latin Americans consume information in digital environments. In the coming weeks, he will publish a comprehensive report with over 3000 case studies, the result of surveys and focus groups conducted during 2024, centered on the relationship between social media, algorithms, and information consumption habits.

The document will combine charts, data, and student testimonials, and will be presented at the end of October simultaneously at the Universidad Austral and in other institutions abroad, in a hybrid format. He explained that the goal is to bring the research results "to a broad audience, beyond the academic sphere."

In addition, Albarello is involved in three articles currently under review: one on the relationship between traditional media and social networks, another one about the algorithmic awareness and a third one about the news avoidanceIn parallel, he coordinates a New study on TikTok as a source of information, which is in its qualitative phase.

In the academic sphere, she will represent the Universidad Austral at the ENACOM Congress, which will take place from November 5 to 7 at the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of San Luis (UNSL). She will coordinate a thematic area in collaboration with other specialists and will present a paper on behalf of the institution within the Argentine Federation of Social Communication Programs (FADECCOS). She may also participate in a panel dedicated to academic journals.

Over the past few months, Albarello shared progress on his work at various universities. At UCA, he presented results during the conference. “Opportunities and challenges of journalism in the 21st century”, and in the coming months he will give talks in Misiones (September), Jujuy (October) and Lomas de Zamora (end of October), where he will address the impact of algorithms on the circulation of news.

Among the team's recent publications are articles in journals such as Intersections in Communication, Question, The Fabric of Communication, RevCom, AdComunica y Chasqui, in which they analyze topics such as social networks as a gateway to news, youth news consumption and collective intelligence in research.

With these projects, Albarello and his team seek to bridge the gap between research and digital citizenship, and provide evidence on how young people become informed, and misinformed, in a media ecosystem increasingly conditioned by algorithms.