To what extent would statistical mechanics approaches help to represent languages from the Americas? Is it possible to extract useful information about the relationships between these languages? This work studies a graph-based approach to extract information from text corpora of languages of the Americas. Each language is viewed as the set of eigenvalues obtained from the Laplacian matrix of co-occurrence graphs. The results suggest that our graph-based feature extraction technique is partly comparable to the knowledge contained in typological databases. We argue that our approach might propose a solution to the lack of textual resources for low-resource Languages.

This article explores emerging social media discourses around a viral video featuring an Andean festive dancer, recorded in an ambiguous situation and widely shared online. Using a mixed methodology—combining manual coding, semantic analysis, and lexical graph visualization—we identify four discursive territories: ethical judgment, performative defense, techno-doubt, and indeterminacy. We examine how artificial intelligence is invoked by users to displace agency, deflect moral responsibility, and renegotiate blame. The study contributes to understanding public emotions, trust in algorithmic systems, and social imaginaries of artificial intelligence in festive and media contexts. It also discusses how cultural heritage becomes a site of symbolic contention when it intersects with virality, technology, and representation.

We analyze Aurora Cáceres´ (1872-1958) personal scrapbook from a perspective grounded on the tenets of digital humanities and information science. By converting it into datasets, we aim to make machine readable such a complex and heterogeneous object, and also, comprehensively approachable, without ignoring the semantic complexity of the objects´ diverse materialities. We aim to overcome the traditional consideration of such complex devices as sources for extracting isolated information or limited to intimate and apolitical spheres. With her personal scrapbook, Cáceres, like other women intellectuals from her time, showcases her political agency, as well as the strategies deployed in order to build a history and memoir in which she has got a leading role. Moreover, having been released as open, the datasets can be profited from by other researchers worldwide. Therefore, this work aim...