The Publications Division of the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) invites the university community and the general public to the presentation of the book “Cibercombatientes. Disputes on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube”, an analysis of the dynamics of digital debate today. The event will take place on Friday, March 14 at 3:00 p.m. in the Thematic Cultural Hall of the UIS Central Library.
This publication, which has the seal of Ediciones UIS, aims to provide tools to understand and participate strategically in debates in cyberspace. Through an academic and reflective approach, the text analyzes how to identify discursive and argumentative strategies in digital forums, which allows a better understanding of the dynamics of confrontation in social networks.
Authors of the book
- Dairon Alfonso Rodríguez
University professor and researcher with an outstanding track record in academic publications recognized by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. He has participated in projects funded by entities such as the Fundación para la Promoción de la Investigación y la Tecnología-Banco de la República and the Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión UIS. He was a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie between 2015 and 2016. Since 2018, he has been a career professor at the UIS School of Philosophy.
- Giohanny Olave
Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Buenos Aires, MA in Education from the National University of La Plata, MA in Linguistics and BA in Spanish and Literature from the Technological University of Pereira. Currently, he directs the GLOTTA research group and teaches rhetoric, discourse analysis and linguistic education at the UIS.
