Taking and circulating photographs with digital tools and networks has become one of the most popular new media practices around the world. Youths and adults are snapping digital images and sharing them with their friends, family members, and wider audiences. Due to the widespread adoption of mobile phones with embedded cameras, the development of the…
I remember Sao Paulo public space as an organized chaos, loud and wild. Full of density and motion, it is a space of noise and cacophony, of motors and steps, of dances and traffic jams. More than 20 million people move on sidewalks with complex patterns, while 6.2 million cars flow on the open and…
Since its 1970s Bronx origins , hip-hop culture has been driven by youth and the appropriation of technologies and cultural materials for creative expression. Leveraging media technologies, minority youth living in post-industrial New York City developed a range of innovations in fashion, music, dance, and writing. From the creation of new rhythms by playing vinyl…
Last week was full of emotions for Colombia. From hope to uncertainty, from sadness to happiness, from indignation to joy, Colombians have been experiencing a chain of contradictory emotions in the midst of a fragmented and polarized country. In the past 10 days, the country lost a historical opportunity to ratify a peace deal to…
Building a diverse network of collaborators composed by experts across disciplines has been key for creating transparency and trust. It has allowed us to access multiple levels of expertise and diverse viewpoints at different phases of our tool design process. Moreover, it has allowed us to learn from the previous experiences of our collaborators, and…
Few enterprises have become so embedded in the everyday life of people around the world as Google. From search engine to email service, from map for directions to text and spreadsheet editor, Google is perhaps the most important supplier of services in the digital age. By offering its services for free, as well as by…
Imagination is a powerful tool for social and cultural transformation. People need to be able to imagine and speak about change first in order to transform the world later. Our capacity to imagine creative alternatives to current society and politics, as Henry Jenkins and colleagues have explained in By Any Media Necessary, can be understood…