Research

Martin de Santos works at the intersection of cultural, economic, and media sociology. He is currently working on three projects. The first explores the cultural and social life of statistics in the public sphere. Using a case study from Argentina, it develops the concepts of fact-totem and public number to theorize and make visible the public life of social indicators and statistics. He is working on extending his research to other cases and national contexts. The second project (with Pablo Boczkowski) examines changes in the media sphere brought about by Internet news and their effect news homogeneity. Last, he has a project underway (with Jeffrey Alexander) that looks at global civil society and its cultural and institutional infrastructure (or lack thereof).

2007. (with Pablo J. Boczkowski) “When more media equals less news: Patterns of Content Homogenization in Argentina’s Leading Print and Online Newspapers” Political Communication. 24(2): 167-180.

2003. “Performances in search of an author: the symbolic life of an economic indicator”. Yale Journal of Sociology. V. 3.