Media Manipulation, Cheap Fake Videos, and Politics in Colombia
The dynamics of political communication in democratic societies have changed as digital technologies have spread around the world, and, particularly, as social ...
Category: politics
Airports, Duty-Free Shops and the Web
After the pandemic hiatus, flying internationally is back in its full mode. Airports are busy again and travelers have returned to this particular kind of place...
Imaginaries of Data and Digital Rights among Latin American communities: A podcast series
The project “Imaginaries of data and digital rights” aims to create spaces for generating and promoting conversations about local imaginaries of data...
Mapping Bogota’s Infrastructures
This month I complete four years of my return to Bogota, my hometown. I have settled up, survived a pandemic, adapted to the everyday life in the Chapinero neig...
Digital Colonialism?
Big data about individuals and populations is one of the most important resources we have today for understanding our societies, and for communicating and takin...
Building the Internet of Trust: Reflections after the #IGF2018
Not that long ago governments around the world tried by multiple means to spread Internet connectivity across their territories with the goal of transitioning i...
Youth Labor and the Paradoxes of the Digital Economy
Since she was a sixteen, Mariand Castrejon has been producing videos in Spanish about beauty and lifestye, and sharing them on YouTube. Today, at the age of 25,...