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Countering Digital Colonialism

A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.

The internet functions as a global structure of governance and control that influences politics, culture, the economy and spatial organisation.

The big corporations have taken over the Internet and, in their constant search for profit, have degraded its use.

A run through the history of the internet, its potentials and downfalls, with an eye on the new paths to be carved out.

We have gone from showing our offline lives on the Internet, to living in accordance with our online personas.

Digital culture is reappropriating error and failure and using it as a critique of the prevailing aesthetic canons.

Every day we make linguistic decisions about how to express ourselves on the Internet, and the way we type is also a way of expressing who we are.

Immersed in the digital vortex, we look at some ideas about silence and taking refuge from the noise of the internet.

We propose a creative game in which several authors delve freely into the concept and dilemmas of the metaverse.

We are all desperately trying to make sense of things, the question is how to embrace derangement and to avoid paralysis.

The story of how Amazon developed its digital platform in the cloud and its impact on different regions.

During the pandemic, memes have offered a way to cope with the crisis and weave a collective narrative.