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Archiving
Digital technologies have allowed an unprecedented leap in the capacity to generate and store information. The volume of data grows by the day.
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Culture
Beyond Open Access: The Discovery of Knowledge
Ignasi Labastida i Juan
The aim of The Hague Declaration on the extraction of knowledge in the digital age is to improve access to knowledge by removing barriers.
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Under-the-Radar Publications
Anna Ramos
Between a collection, an archive and a reference area, La Fanzinoteca is inspired by the spirit of amateurism and by a passion for fanzines and micropublishing.
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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.
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Technology
Reclaiming the City through Play
Cristina Sáez
The use of new technologies in cities through play is a way of putting the use of public space back in the hands of citizens.
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Culture
Genealogy of a Participatory Community: Spanish Fandom
Elisabet Roselló
What is the situation of the fandom in Spain, where the mass media and consumer culture developed under a dictatorship?
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New Political Communities
Jorge Carrión
Not democrat, not republican, not socialist, not capitalist, anarchist or ultraliberal. As I said: new.
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Culture
The Digital Closing of the Public Domain
Ignasi Labastida i Juan
In the process of digitalising works, museums, libraries and archives often end up closing or limiting their use.
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Culture
Female Public/s: Side B of Culture
Mª Ángeles Cabré
The fact is that in spite of their large numbers, women in culture function as minorities, like what Nancy Fraser dubbed “subaltern counterpublics”.
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The City and its Small Data
César Reyes Nájera
What role do small data and interactions in shaping our cities?
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Citizen Science: Knowledge takes power
Josep Perelló
Citizen science harks back to the essence of amateur science in the nineteenth century, but mixed with initiatives of social innovation and open innovation.
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Technology
(In)Net: in the Mirage of Social Networks
Mª Ángeles Cabré
Are social networks a new tool for women’s empowerment? Or are they incapable of deactivating the mechanisms of inequality?