Storytelling
The series that explore Mars
Serielizados
We take a look at the main recent series to have explored Mars.
Storytelling
Designing between truth and fiction
Oriol Arnedo Casas
In the throes of the post-truth era, a new generation of designers have started to use fiction in their creative work as a means for speculating about the nature of the reality that surrounds us.
Planet
The environmental impact of digital publishing
Marta Escamilla Monell | Jordi Panyella Carbonell
Almost 10% of what we read nowadays is in digital format, which is why we are looking into the digital impact of this area.
Technology
Remember the Human
Albert Lloreta
Reddit, the interface between digital niches and the mainstream, is one of the battle grounds for debates on freedom of expression and toxicity in the era of the great algorithm.
Technology
Connective nightmare at the call centre
Arnau Horta
For both ends of the telephone line, the call centre means giving up empathy and understanding.
Planet
Data-free zone
Edgar Riu
In a world where data seems to be the basis of any decision, can we imagine a space without the authority of figures?
Storytelling
“The War of the Worlds” – The Transmedia Invasion
Carlos A. Scolari
We take a look at how H. G. Wells’s novel has grown into a transmedia narrative world that encompasses different media and forms of expression.
Culture
Art on Mars: from the optimism of Space Art to the capitalist logic of contemporary art
Déborah Camañes
With their work, artists anticipate and prefigure the fundamental questions surrounding the future of humanity and its drift.
Technology
Can AI create a more just world?
Karma Peiró | Ricardo Baeza-Yates
If we know that algorithms may have biases that can harm individuals or groups, why do we let them make decisions?
Planet
Technology
A Geology of Media
Jussi Parikka | Garnet Hertz
The materiality of media is not limited to economic or technical issues; it has an intimate connection with the soil, the air and nature.
Commons
Nkosikhona Swartbooi: “The city is worried about getting people to work early, but not about when they get home”
João França
We talk to Nkosikhona Swartbooi, founder member of Reclaim the City, a collective that fights housing segregation in Cape Town.
