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.
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.
Technology
Social networks: editing or censorship?
Jorge Carrión
The change in behaviour of big media platforms sparks reflection on the ethical regulation of information.
Commons
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.
Technology
The I in the Internet
Jia Tolentino
The Internet has gone from being a utopia where everything was possible to a place full of angry people obsessed with their own representation
Planet
Technology
Luxury communism and automation
Ekhi L. de la Granja
Is a world possible where robots do everything, while we simply enjoy life? We consider how automation will affect us, based on the book “Fully Automated Luxury Communism. A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani.
Technology
Offline
Anna Pacheco | Efraín Foglia | Felipe G. Gil | Irene Solà | Jorge Carrión | Libby Heaney | Liliana Arroyo | Maria Callís Cabrera | Estampa
We asked different authors to take a free, textual, no-links approach to the idea of disconnection and technology addiction.
Storytelling
Technology
Contradictions in contemporary video games
Óliver Pérez Latorre
We explore the dilemmas currently posed by video games, a means of expression and entertainment that have come to hold a central position in our collective imagination.
Technology
Dank memes: the reaction to an unliveable Internet
Albert Lloreta
Emerging from the dawn of the first Internet, today dank memes can be understood as an absurd expression that condenses the spirt of our times and as an expression of fury that boycotts the marketing logic of the Internet.
Technology
Rereading Debord
Ingrid Guardiola
A look at today’s hyperconnected society of social media, cognitive capitalism and algorithms through the lens of the work of Guy Debord.
Technology
What if the Internet were an ally of linguistic diversity?
Carlos Bajo
Some 54% of the contents on the Internet are in English. We wonder about the rest of the languages, taking as a starting point the case of the African continent, where a third of the world’s languages are spoken and cultural activists take advantage of the digital environment to defend it.