Crimen y muerte en la era del smartphone: hacia una sociología de la cámara
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2026
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25/10/2025
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Esta investigación analiza el papel de la cámara -y, específicamente, de su integración en los smartphones- en la transformación de la vida social contemporánea, a través del estudio de un fenómeno emergente y extremo: los crímenes grabados y compartidos en redes sociales. Lejos de abordar estos sucesos como desviaciones individuales o expresiones de la decadencia moral, el estudio propone comprenderlos como síntomas de una reestructuración más amplia del mundo social, epistemológica y ética, donde la cámara se ha convertido en un objeto central. Para ello, se propone una sociología de la cámara como marco analítico, capaz de considerar tanto su dimensión material e histórica como su agencia en la configuración de la experiencia humana. El objeto de estudio se bifurca en dos elementos estrechamente interconectados: por un lado, la evolución de la cámara desde su invención hasta la actualidad, prestando especial atención a los cambios técnicos y simbólicos que la acompañan; por otro, el análisis de los crímenes grabados con teléfonos móviles y difundidos en plataformas digitales. Ambos fenómenos permiten observar la emergencia de nuevas formas de visibilidad, representación y prácticas sociales que desdibujan las fronteras tradicionales entre lo público y lo privado, lo cotidiano y lo excepcional, el espectador y el espectáculo...
This research examines the role of the camera -and, more specifically, its integration into smartphones- in the transformation of contemporary social life, through the study of an emerging and extreme phenomenon: crimes that are recorded and shared on social media. Rather than approaching these events as individual deviant acts or mere expressions of moral decay, the study proposes to understand them as symptoms of a broader social, epistemological, and ethical restructuring, in which the camera has become a central object. To this end, it proposes a sociology of the camera as an analytical framework capable of addressing both its material and historical dimensions and its agency in shaping human experience.The object of study is divided into two closely interconnected components: on the one hand, the evolution of the camera from its invention to the present, with particular attention to the technical and symbolic changes involved; on the other, the analysis of crimes recorded with mobile phones and disseminated through digital platforms. Both phenomena enable the observation of emerging forms of visibility, representation, and social practices that blur traditional boundaries between the public and the private, the everyday and the exceptional, the spectator and the spectacle...
This research examines the role of the camera -and, more specifically, its integration into smartphones- in the transformation of contemporary social life, through the study of an emerging and extreme phenomenon: crimes that are recorded and shared on social media. Rather than approaching these events as individual deviant acts or mere expressions of moral decay, the study proposes to understand them as symptoms of a broader social, epistemological, and ethical restructuring, in which the camera has become a central object. To this end, it proposes a sociology of the camera as an analytical framework capable of addressing both its material and historical dimensions and its agency in shaping human experience.The object of study is divided into two closely interconnected components: on the one hand, the evolution of the camera from its invention to the present, with particular attention to the technical and symbolic changes involved; on the other, the analysis of crimes recorded with mobile phones and disseminated through digital platforms. Both phenomena enable the observation of emerging forms of visibility, representation, and social practices that blur traditional boundaries between the public and the private, the everyday and the exceptional, the spectator and the spectacle...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, leída el 28/10/2025












