Technology
African Cyberactivism against Censorship
Carlos Bajo
Africa has been an experimentation laboratory for Internet espionage, censorship and denunciation by civil society alike.
Planet
Design fiction: Prototyping Desirable Futures
Elisabet Roselló
Design fiction enables us to imagine and critically explore possibilities for the future through tangible objects.
Planet
Eco-publishing handbook: the container is important too
Mar Carrera
Publishing books using environmentally-friendly criteria requires rethinking the entire publishing process: from conceptualisation to communication.
Storytelling
From BTV to Betevé. Unpredictable television
Morrosko Vila-San-Juan
The first phase of BTV represented a new approach to television. Today’s Betevé promises a fresh leap forward, based on a cross-cutting approach and transmedia narrative.
Storytelling
Walking: A Thought Laboratory
Jorge Carrión
We’ve known it for centuries, but now it has been demonstrated by science and so seems to be even more certain than before. Walking stimulates creativity and thinking.
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Planet
10 Proposals to Fight Climate Change through Culture
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways to spread awareness and to address climate change.
Technology
Algorithmic Injustice
David Casacuberta
In light of the increasing use of algorithms to automate decisions, we do not just want them to produce results that are correct. They must also be fair.
Planet
Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
We interview the philosopher Tim Morton, author of “Dark Ecology”, who proposes that we rethink the way we see ecology, anthropocentrism and art.
Storytelling
Walking: A Thought Laboratory
Jorge Carrión
We’ve known it for centuries, but now it has been demonstrated by science and so seems to be even more certain than before. Walking stimulates creativity and thinking.
Technology
Fake news: sharing is caring
Sandra Álvaro
Algorithmic filter bubbles on the Internet limit the diversity of viewpoints we see and make it easier to spread fabricated information.
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The Mass Data Era
Culture
The Art of Analytics: Using bigger data to create value in the arts and cultural sector
Juan Mateos García
How can data help the cultural sector to create value by helping it to understand its audiences better, and to develop new business models?
Culture
Wikidata: The New Rosetta Stone
Àlex Hinojo
Wikidata is a new step forward in the democratisation of access to information.
“As big data transforms our lives — optimizing, improving, making more efficient, and capturing benefits — what role is left for intuition, faith, uncertainty, and originality?”
Technology
The Latest Post-Digital Revolution: The Internet of Things, Big Data and Ubiquity
Sandra Álvaro
We build bridges that bind the virtual world closer to the physical world, so that information is not only accessible from anywhere but also in everything.
Technology
After the Deluge
José Luis de Vicente
The last decade has seen some fundamental truths take root regarding the status of information as a raw material and its role in the world.
“Gathering, filtering and visualizing what is happening beyond what the eye can see has a growing value.”
Commons
The City and its Small Data
César Reyes Nájera
What role do small data and interactions in shaping our cities?
Technology
Smart Citizens in the Data Metropolis
Mara Balestrini
How are 'smart cities’ prefigured? Which forms and dynamics will take cultural institutions and citizenship action?
Commons
Culture
If It’s Transparent, It’s Better
Mara Balestrini
For the cultural institutions, offering open data may become a new form of dialogue that promotes commitment and innovation.
“The digital deluge now sweeping the globe is the equivalent of giving every person living on earth today 320 times as much information as is estimated to have been stored in the Library of Alexandria.”
Technology
_Big Bang Data
José Luis de Vicente
_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curated by José Luis de Vicente and Olga Subirós with ZZZINC activities management.
Technology
Big Data and Digital Humanities: From social computing to the challenges of connected culture
Sandra Álvaro
Big Data applied to the field of cultural production brings the Digital Humanities up against the new challenges of a network-generated data culture.