Alberto Hurtado University

Teachers’ reflexive valuations of digital platforms in schools: a comparative study of Chile and England

Digital platforms have become central infrastructures in contemporary schooling, mediating administrative processes, communication with families, and everyday pedagogical practices. Critical scholarship on the platformisation of education has provided important insights into the...

Information avant la lettre: The mathematical constitution of brain waves in early EEG analysis (1929–1932)

This article examines the epistemological conditions under which the brain’s electrophysiological trace was first constituted as a mathematical object of analysis. Rather than treating information as a cultural metaphor externally projected onto the brain, the paper reconstructs...

Mapping the Crowdfunding–Entrepreneurship System: A Longitudinal and Structural Bibliometric Analysis

Crowdfunding has become a central mechanism for entrepreneurial finance, yet the evolution and thematic structure of its intersection with entrepreneurship remain insufficiently understood. This study provides an integrated, longitudinal, and structurally grounded bibliometric an...

Artificial intelligence, judicial archives, and transitional justice: analysis of the Quiñones Case in Chile

This article analyzes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for reconstructing historical truth from the archives of Transitional Justice (TJ) in Chile, focusing on the Quiñones Case – a forced disappearance of 1976 documented across 13,283 judicial records. Through a sociotech...

Rare Diseases as Epistemic Objects: Exploring the Moral Role of Health Systems

ABSTRACT This article explores how rare diseases reveal the moral and epistemic foundations of healthcare systems. Based on narrative interviews with 11 Chilean patients and 10 professionals, this study shows how the absence of standardised protocols—such as clinical guidelines,...

To profit or not to profit? Evidence from Chile’s for-profit voucher schools

This note examines whether for-profit management affects educational outcomes in Chile’s voucher system. Using administrative panel data for all voucher-subsidised primary schools from 2010 to 2014, we compare for-profit and nonprofit schools in terms of inputs and student perfor...

The origins of the Indigenous press in Chile: the Mapuche case, 1935–1945

This article examines the origins of the Indigenous press in Chile and focuses specifically on the Mapuche case between 1935 and 1945, ranging from the first newspaper Juventud Araucana to the final issue of El Heraldo Araucano. It highlights two main conditions that explain the...