Pablo Beytía

Adjunct professor, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Founder & CEO Monitor Social

Ph.D (des.), Humboldt University of Berlin

About me

I am an academic, consultant, and entrepreneur specialized in computational social science and digital society. With more than 15 years researching and teaching at the intersection of social sciences, computer science and humanities, I am dedicated to studying sociodigital phenomena (e.g., platforms, public attention, discourses, social memory, AI) and helping organizations to improve their social tuning through real-time information tools.

I transform digital information in cultural understanding.

Timeline

Since 2022 | Adjunct Professor, Institute of Sociology – Universidad Católica de Chile. Courses: Digital Sociology, Computational Social Science.

Since 2021 | Co-founder and CEO, Monitor Social (social analytics technologies based on digital data).

2017 - 2024 | Doctoral candidate, Department of Social Sciences – Humboldt University of Berlin.

2021 - 2023 | Research Fellow, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Germany). Research group: Quantification and Social Regulation.

2021 - 2023 | Visiting researcher, WZB - Berlin Social Science Center (Germany). Research group: Politics of Digitalization.

2021 | Associated Researcher, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Germany).

2020 | Senior Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Germany). Research program: Knowledge & Society.

2019 | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies – The University of Warwick (United Kingdom).

2018 - 2021 | Guest Researcher, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) – Humboldt University of Berlin.

2015 - 2017 | Adviser, Undersecretary of Crime Prevention – Ministry of Interior and Public Security, Chilean Government.

2014 - 2016 | Lecturer, Institute of Sociology – P. Catholic University of Chile. Course: Poverty and urban segregation.

2013 - 2014 | Director, Social Research Center of the NGO TECHO-Chile.

2012 | Visiting Researcher, Hamburg Institute for Social Research (Germany).

2011 | Research Assistant, Institute of Public Policies, Diego Portales University – Faculty of Economics and Business.

2011 | Lecturer, Institute of Sociology – P. Catholic University of Chile.

2008 - 2010 | Teaching Assistant, Institute of Sociology – P. Catholic University of Chile.

Awards & honors

Summa cum laude | Ph.D. in Sociology (2024).
Humboldt University of Berlin.

Start-up mentor.
Start-Up Chile by Corfo.

Co-chair of the Wiki Workshop (2024).
World Conference on Wikimedia Foundation Platforms.

World's best digital innovation in Government and Citizen Engagement (2022).
World Summit Awards | United Nations recognition for the best digital innovations (with Monitor Social).

Honorable Mention Research Project (2019).
Summer School on Methods for Computational Social Sciences, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.

Emerging Scholar Award (2018).
Communication & Media Studies Research Network, USA.

Summa cum laude | Master of Arts in Philosohy (2016).
University of Chile.

Summa cum laude | Master of Arts in Sociology (2011).
P. Catholic University of Chile.

Grants & scholarships

2025 | Faculty Research Grant - Lingnan University, Hong Kong (China). For research on digital music and country well-being.

2023 - 2024 | Wikimedia Research Fund - International Fund for Research on Wikipedia

2023 - 2025 | SICSS Host Partnership - Grant to organize the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) in Chile, supported by the Social Science Research Council (USA).

2023 | Start-Up Chile (with Monitor Social) - Technology Entrepreneurship Program from the Chilean Government (Chile)

2019 | Full Scholarship to participate in the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Oxford), founded by the University of Oxford, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

2017 - 2021 | DAAD – Becas Chile Full Scholarship for doctoral studies in Germany.

2014 | CONICYT Scholarship (Chilean Government award) for Master's studies in Chile.

Education

Ph.D. (des.) in Sociology (summa cum laude) - specialization in computational social science, Humboldt University of Berlin

Leaders in Development (public policy program to manage development processes), Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Master of Arts in Philosophy (summa cum laude), Universidad de Chile

Master of Arts in Sociology (summa cum laude), P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Sociologist, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Academic publications

Books

La síntesis de la libertad

Fundamentos teóricos desde la obra de Ortega y Gasset

Pablo Beytía

(2019). Santiago de Chile: RIL editores.

This book traces the discourses on the concept of ‘freedom’ in several historical periods and fields of knowledge: philosophy, religion, theology, history, politics, law, psychology and neurology. From this corpus, I organise the main historical debates on the concept. I then argues that it is possible to overcome the main conceptual discrepancies about freedom and find an integrative theoretical perspective, and that the work of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset is particularly fruitful for this.

Papers

Beytía, Pablo, Camila Rojas & Carlos Cruz (2024). Social Memory about people from a country. The case of notable Chileans in Wikipedia.Wiki Workshop 2024.

Beytía, Pablo & Hans-Peter Müller (2022). Towards a Digital Reflexive Sociology: Using Wikipedia's Biographical Repository as a Reflexive Tool. Poetics.

Beytía, Pablo, Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, and Vivek Singh (2022). Visual Gender Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken Languages. Proceedings of the International Conference on Web and Social Media - ICWSM 2022.

Beytía, Pablo & Claudia Wagner (2022). Visibility Layers: A Framework for Systematising the Gender Gap in Wikipedia Content.Internet Policy Review (11, 1).

Beytía, Pablo & Janosch Schobin (2020). Networked Pantheon: a Relational Database of Globally Famous People. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 5.

Beytía, Pablo (2020). The Positioning Matters. Estimating Geographical Bias in the Multilingual Record of Biographies on Wikipedia. Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020, April 20-24, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan.

Beytía, Pablo (2017). El panóptico de Bentham y la instrumentalización de los derechos humanos. Universitas Philosophica, N° 68.

Beytía, Pablo (2016). ¿Cómo explicar la prosperidad de los países? Tres teorías en disputa y un esbozo de convergencia. Revista CIS, N° 21.

Beytía, Pablo (2016). Fatum e historia: la teoría de la acción esbozada por Nietzsche en su juventud. Andamios, N° 32.

Beytía, Pablo (2015). El potencial político de la felicidad. Fundamentos científicos y de aplicación gubernamental. Persona y Sociedad: Vol. XXIX, N° 3.

Beytía, Pablo (2014). La libertad de los dominados. Aportes y límites de la teoría del poder de John Searle. Estudios Públicos, Nº 135.

Beytía, Pablo (2014). La lucha contemporánea por el espacio en la obra de Carl Schmitt. Eikasia, Nº 56, pp. 129-141.

Beytía, Pablo (2014). La copertenencia entre hombre y mundo en la comprensión heideggeriana del lenguaje. Eikasia, Nº 55, pp. 93-106.

Beytía, Pablo (2012). Una lectura bourdieuana acerca de Bourdieu. La posición epistemológica del constructivismo estructuralista. Persona y Sociedad, Vol. XXVI, Nº 3, pp. 11-31.

Beytía, Pablo (2012). Creatividad situada, contingencia y modernidad. Entrevista a Hans Joas. Andamios, Nº 19, pp. 359-390.

Beytía, Pablo (2011). Gestación y desarrollo de la sociedad contemporánea en la obra de Niklas Luhmann. Doble Vínculo, Nº 3, pp. 134-151.

Book chapters

Beytía, Pablo (2018). The Efficiency of Subjective Well-being: a Key to Latin American Development. In: Masaheli, M., Bula, G. & Harrington, S. E. Latin American perspectives on global development. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Beytía, Pablo (2018). Vínculos familiares: una clave explicativa de la felicidad. In: Muñoz, Mónica y Carmen Reyes. La familia en tiempos de cambio. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar.

Beytía, Pablo (2016). La estructura interna de la pobreza multidimensional. In: Siles, Catalina (Ed.). Los invisibles. ¿Por qué la pobreza y la segregación social dejaron de ser prioridad? Santiago de Chile: Instituto de Estudios de la Sociedad.

Beytía, Pablo (2015). The Singularity of Latin American Patterns of Happiness. In: Mariano Rojas (ed.). Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America. Dordrecht: Springer.

Reyes, Carmen, Mónica Muñoz y Pablo Beytía (2015). Ser madre o padre soltero en Chile: una mirada a los jóvenes universitarios. In: Reyes, Carmen y Samuel Yañez. Sexualidad(es) y evangelio. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado.

Working papers

Beytía, Pablo & Carlos Cruz Infante (2020). Digital Pathways, Pandemic Trajectories. Using Google Trends to Track Social Responses to COVID-19. HIIG Discussion Paper Series, 2020-01.

Beytía, Pablo (2017). Pobreza multidimensional como red de privaciones. Una exploración relacional de las carencias en Chile. Cuadernos ISUC, Nº 3.

Beytía, Pablo (2014). Barrios de vivienda social: tres focos para revertir su deterioro urbano. Claves de Políticas Públicas, Nº 23.

Beytía, Pablo (2013). Situación laboral en los campamentos de la región Metropolitana. ÉnfaCIS, Nº 2.

Beytía, Pablo (2012). La pobreza invisible. Sobre la satisfacción con la vida en los campamentos de Chile. ÉnfaCIS, Nº 1.

Beytía, Pablo y Esteban Calvo (2011). ¿Cómo medir la felicidad? Claves para Políticas Públicas, Nº 4.

Theses

Beytía, Pablo (2024). A Digital Setting of Human History. Social Memory and Discursive Power in the Biographical Storage of Wikipedia. Dissertation - Ph.D. in Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Beytía, Pablo (2015). La síntesis raciovitalista de la libertad. Thesis of Master in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile.

Beytía, Pablo (2011). El impacto del contexto social en los determinantes individuales de la felicidad. América Latina, Europa occidental y Estados Unidos en perspectiva comparada. Thesis of Master in Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Book reviews

Beytía, Pablo (2017). Una grieta en la civilización occidental. Book review of Berlin, Isaiah (2015). Las raíces del romanticismo (segunda edición). Buenos Aires: Taurus. Estudios Públicos, Nº 146.

Beytía, Pablo (2011). Imaginarios sociales modernos (Charles Taylor). Persona y Sociedad, XXV, Nº 3, pp. 151-154.

Translations

Dewey, John (2015). Fuerza y coerción. Estudios Públicos, Nº 139, pp. 259-270 (introduction by Pablo Beytía). Original version (1916). Force and Coercion. International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 26, Nº 3.

Paugam, Serge (2015). Ciencia y consciencia de la pobreza. Revista CIS, Nº 18. Original version: (2005). Science et conscience de la pauvreté. L'Économie Politique, Nº 26.