Fernando A. Valenzuela

Sociologist | Knowledge Infrastructures

Projects




Urdimbres: The Hidden Life of Databases


The Hidden Life of Databases: Interdisciplinary research investigating how digital infrastructures influence organizational life in Chile. Studying the invisible yet powerful role of databases in shaping work, identity, and coordination.




Mathematics and Gender


Sociology study of women mathematicians in Chile examining career trajectories, institutional barriers, and gender dynamics in academia to inform STEM equity policies.




Telemedicine, Controversy, and Social Change


How does telemedicine reshape healthcare and society? This ethnographic study explored the social construction of distance medicine in Chile, uncovering how medical technologies simultaneously transform and are transformed by social life.




Data & Narratives


Science and Technology Studies project examining how social scientific data and narratives performatively shape Chilean social reality through socio-material assemblages, using Actor-Network Theory and performativity frameworks.




Art as Communication in Early World Society


Sociological analysis of colonial Andean painting as a form of communication, examining how visual ornamentation enabled intercultural meaning-making in peripheral contexts of early world society through Luhmann's systems theory.

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