Open Data in Latin America: Promises, Challenges, and Opportunities
While corruption continues to be pervasive at all layers of society in Latin American countries, the region has become a leader in commitments to open data and ...
Author: andres lombana bermudez
Data is Power: Privacy and the Surveillance Economy
The ubiquity of computing and networking technologies, massive adoption of mobile devices and apps, and the rise of social media platforms, are rapidly transfor...
New Media Literacies and the Animation Medium
More than seven years ago, while I was working as a Research Assistant at the Project New Media Literacy at MIT, I co-produced a series of web videos about DJ C...
Learning as a Lifestyle
In times of rapid transformation, we are constantly asked to learn new technologies, new systems, and new practices. Terms such as the information, the knowledg...
Fair Use Matters
Creativity is at the core of everyday life. It crosses many social dimensions. From culture to economy to language. Creative expression, however, usually requir...
Embrace of the Serpent / El Abrazo de la Serpiente
The latest film of Ciro Guerra, El Abrazo de la Serpiente/Embrace of the Serpent, is a wonderful piece of cinematic art, full of mystery, beauty, and intimate c...
Hearing Space: Sound Technologies, Waves, and Noises
A fleeting chirp is the latest rendering of the sound caused by a collision of two black holes. A ripple in the universe over a billion years ago. A disturbance...