A couple of weeks ago we launched the multimedia website for Doing Innovation, a collaborative project I have been working with, that intends to understand and document how young people are creating pathways to opportunity and navigating a rapid changing economy. Through several ethnographic case studies from the city of Austin we explore how young…
The creative and social spaces established by the Juegos Rancheros community through their monthly meet-up events and annual exhibitions at the Fantastic and Marfa Film Festivals can be considered new iterations of the video arcade, a particular kind of public space that became very popular among U.S. youth in the 1970s and 1980s. With deeper roots in…
This weekend i have been attending the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science’s (Public Lab) barnraising event at the LUMCON, a marine research venue located in Cocodrie, Louisiana. During three days members of the community got together to share their knowledge, run workshops, discuss, and geek out on environmental science. The variety of Public…
In the digital age the notion of citizenship is being redefined in multiple ways as new possibilities for civic action appear in the interaction of users, technology, objects, and networks. While some of these definitions are normative and have been articulated by governments and institutions as part of top-down initiatives, others are being generated by…
Some researchers of digital inequality have applied a Bourdieusian framework in their efforts to understand and explain the complexity of digital inequalities. They have found in the theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu a useful lens to explain how uneven relations of power and the reproduction of an unequal social order are at the core…
Developed by House House, a four-person indie studio from Melbourn, Australia, PMPY is a game in where players (usually working in pairs) control two double head humanoid-worm monsters that compete against each other in a pseudo Greco-Roman wrestling court. The two monsters compete against each other by trying to keep a ball in one of…
Where do citizens go to raise concerns about the platform economy? Where do Taxi drivers go if they want to protest against the non-regulatory practices of Uber and Lyft? Sometimes they go to the local government buildings, other times they decide to block the major avenues. In Bogota, Paris, Bratislava and many cities around the…