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Cognitive Short-Sightedness, Biases and Survival
Liliana Arroyo
Our decisions are modulated by cognitive biases that affect our perception, decision-making and memory.
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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.
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Connected refuge: rethinking the home in the light of the virus
Ferran Esteve
COVID-19 has reminded us of the importance of the home while favouring in-depth changes in our ways of inhabiting it.
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The Fight of African Women
Carlos Bajo
African women have found in social media networks a space for denouncing the discrimination that reigns in conventional police, court and legislative structures.
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Social movements in a time of pandemic
Dafne Calvo
COVID-19 has challenged the creativity of citizens in lockdown, who have responded to the crisis through numerous expressions of solidarity, both online and offline.
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Memes as digital crafts
Felipe G. Gil
A democratic source of collective creativity, memes define our digital culture through transformative practices.
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The Digital Environment is Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Carlos Bajo
Across the whole continent initiatives are appearing that, supported by digital technologies, aim to fight the virus.
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Technology
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism
Caroline Sinders
From a feminist perspective, we offer a critical analysis of the machine learning of artificial intelligences to find more equitable practices.
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Jason Y. Ng: “Violence will only lead to more escalated violence”
Sergi Vicente
We talk to this lawyer, activist, and journalist about his experiences with protests and non-violent civil disobedience in Hong Kong.
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Carolin Emcke: “We need a language of utopia to accompany our discontent”
Roger Manau Flotats
We talk with the German philosopher and journalist about the need to heed the complex web of violences, of hate and of silences and the need to find words to fight it.
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Women and Data: Counting Gender Inequalities
Tània Verge Mestre
Within the feminist movement various initiatives are in place to collect data, both quantitative and qualitative, to document gender inequalities and make them count.
