The Struggle for Re-Descentralizing the Web
Due to the consolidation of privately owned corporate platforms and their massive adoption around the world the Web is becoming more and more centralized. The c...
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The Internet of Things (IoT)
Imagine all the devices, clothes, and objects that you use in your everyday life have tiny censors and computers, have networked capabilities, and constantly co...
Exploring Google at Mountain View
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 ...
Mobilizing the Civic Imagination: New Media in the Context of Colombia’s Peace Agreement and Referendum
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 ...
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...
The World Wide Web as Social Media
The Internet is the most important socio-technological system that exists in the new networked communication environment. As a “network of networks” (Dutton, 19...
Generativity and the Geospatial Web
The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is the system that combines precise geographic information with World Wide Web content (Haklay et al. 2008; Elwood and Leszczynski,...