Commons
Towards a data commons
Enric Senabre | Mayo Fuster Morell
Implications for the whole of society of the data policies of collaborative economy platforms.
Technology
Internet, internet!
The better we know the potentials and risks of the Internet and the technologies that accelerate and expand it, the better we will be able to use them to create a more critical, creative and democratic world.
Commons
Pedro Inoue: “The innocent bystander no longer exists”
Felipe G. Gil
We talk with the creative director of the magazine Adbusters who dissects the relationships between narrative and politics, science fiction and reality, and the left and pop culture.
Technology
Freeport: a dissection of the invisible Internet
Karma Peiró
A summer school focusing on art, communication technologies and a networked planet.
Storytelling
General Theory of Rubbish
Agustín Fernández Mallo
On the evolution of culture, now that we are living in the post era, where artists and thinkers are recycling the remnants of a society that has come undone.
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Education
Learning and teaching with digital technologies
Júlia Coromina
When integrating ITCs into the classroom it is important to evaluate to what degree it enriches the relationship established between students, tasks and contents, and teacher.
Storytelling
General Theory of Rubbish
Agustín Fernández Mallo
On the evolution of culture, now that we are living in the post era, where artists and thinkers are recycling the remnants of a society that has come undone.
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.
Education
The Contribution of the Montessori Method to an Uncertain World
Francesc Balagué
We talk with Ève Herrmann about the resurgence of Montessori education and what this may contribute to digital literacy and other challenges in education.
Storytelling
Spud Crazy
Martí Sales | nomdenoia
A text playing on the history of the potato, on the frontier between essay and fiction, tensing the format of a text, to think about literature and other knowledges without floodgates.
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Sharing Economy
Commons
The Rules of the Game of Platform Cooperativism
Guido Smorto
Legal regulations play a crucial role in the capacity to successfully design and implement cooperative platforms.
Commons
The User Experience in Platform Cooperativism
Enric Senabre | Ricard Espelt
Some thoughts on the design of collaborative platforms and reputation systems that make it possible to build trust and solidarity networks.
Commons
A New Economy: Social, Commons, Feminist, and Environmental
Mayo Fuster Morell
Airbnb, Uber or eBay have popularized the collaborative economy, but where cooperativism is? The concentration of wealth continues in corporations.
Technology
The Keys of Bitcoin and Blockchain
Alan Lazalde
Bitcoin and Blockchain are a new generation of internet systems that eliminates middlemen, financial services that are fairer, transparent and accessible.
Commons
P2Pvalue. Collaborative Production Online
How does value work in the emerging organisational forms? What conditions favour online collaborative production?
Commons
The Wealth of Networks
Mayo Fuster Morell
A review of the book The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler.
Commons
Mayo Fuster: “There is social production in the digital world, but there is no social economy”
Mayo Fuster, a researcher specialising in the fields of the Internet, politics and social innovation, talks about the commons and collaborative production.
