Ignacio Siles (PhD, Northwestern University) is a professor of media and technology studies in the School of Communication and a researcher in the Centro de Investigaci�n en Comunicaci�n (CICOM) at Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica (MIT Press, 2023), A Transnational History of the Internet in Central America, 1985-2000 (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France (2017, Peter Lang), along with several articles on the relationship between technology, communication, and society.