academic/ai/art/environmental/speculative

Exploring Latin American IT infrastructure Cityscapes: A co-creation project with Generative AI.

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Information technology infrastructure, or IT infrastructure, is everywhere. It has expanded across our rural and urban environments as a mix of visible and invisible networks, supporting the flows of data, the functioning of information systems, and the communication between devices, computers, humans and non-human beings. Ultimatelly, this infrastructure mediates many relationships among people, machines, animals,…

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ai/art/cinema/colombia/education

FICCI 62 : Cyberfeudalism, Digital Landlords, and Electronic Peasants

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Two weeks ago I participated in the 62 edition of the FICCI, the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, and had the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities not only related to cinema but also to music, audiovisual collectives, social media and artificial intelligence. Under the central theme of cyberfeudalism, digital landlords and…

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academic/methods/participatory/project

Digital Security in Indigenous and Minority Language Communities: A Rising Voices Research Project

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Digital security is a complex problem that is evolving rapidly and impacting they way communities around the world communicate and participate in culture, politics, civics, and in all dimensions of society. Security incidents such as email and social media hacking, data loss, identity theft, phishing, and several forms of online violence, affect the digitally mediated…

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academic/innovation/participatory

The Plurality of Citizen Science

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Although the term “citizen science” is increasingly used in the mainstream media around the world, has entered national and regional science policy discourses (particularly in the Global North), and has been fixed in the English language (entered the Oxford dictionary in 2014), there is no consensus about its definition. Citizen science, as Irwin (2015) has…

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