Diseñando multiplicidades afectivas: un marco bergsoniano-deleuziano para la praxis ética en los medios globales
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Las plataformas digitales contemporáneas son frecuentemente criticadas como motores de extracción de atención y homogeneización cultural. Este artículo aborda un vacío en los estudios de plataformas proponiendo un marco bergsoniano-deleuziano para analizar los medios digitales como sitios de “flujo afectivo”. La pregunta central es: ¿cómo diseñan las arquitecturas de medios digitales temporalidades afectivas específicas y cuáles son sus implicaciones éticas para la circulación cultural global? Mediante una metodología metateórica, el estudio sintetiza hallazgos empíricos secundarios (2018–2025) en tres estudios de caso: el ritmo algorítmico de TikTok, la inmersión háptica de la narrativa de RV The Wolves in the Walls y la curación de los servicios de streaming indios. Los resultados demuestran cómo TikTok manufactura una “duración sintética”, cómo la RV emplea la “percepción sustractiva” para generar profundidad afectiva, y cómo las plataformas de streaming indias preservan temporalidades narrativas culturalmente específicas más allá de las fronteras lingüísticas. En consecuencia, el artículo propone una Praxis de Diseño Ético basada en los principios de “sustracción”, “multiplicidad” y “resonancia sin borrado”, ofreciendo una hoja de ruta especulativa para diseñar plataformas que resistan el aplanamiento cultural y permitan una resonancia encarnada global.
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Ani Thomas, Mahindra University
Assistant Professor in Media Lab at the École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, India, where he is pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Consciousness. He holds a Master's degree in Communication Studies from the University of Pune and a Postgraduate Diploma in Film Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). His research intersects cinema studies, consciousness, and digital media, exploring temporal synthesis and affective resonance through Bergsonian-Deleuzian philosophical frameworks. His work bridges filmmaking practice with platform studies, investigating how contemporary media architectures foster embodied perception and cross-cultural communication within global digital environments.
Sherine Anna Chandy, Independent Scholar
Independent scholar with an academic foundation in Management (MBA) and Engineering (B.Tech). Following a professional career as an HR specialist in corporate communication and employee relations, she transitioned into academia as a faculty member in management studies. Her scholarly inquiries currently focus on meaning creation, transformative pedagogy, and continental philosophy. By synthesizing practical industry insights with philosophical frameworks, she investigates how contemporary digital architectures reconfigure interpersonal dynamics. Her work seeks to understand the phenomenological impact of globalized infrastructures on communication, identity, and the social structures of the modern digital epoch.
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