Technology
Under the Cloud
Alec MacGillis
The story of how Amazon developed its digital platform in the cloud and its impact on different regions.
Technology
The Place of People in the Digital Carnival
Enric Luján
From the depersonalised and anonymous Internet to the culture of exposure and virality of today’s social media.
Storytelling
The Golden Age of Memes
Ainhoa Marzol
During the pandemic, memes have offered a way to cope with the crisis and weave a collective narrative.
Storytelling
Speeding up: from podfast to projection
Estampa
We look at the acceleration of reproduction offered by some digital tools and its relation with the early decades of the cinema.
Technology
The update that never ends
Ivan Pintor Iranzo
We take a look at TikTok, an infinite scroll platform where consumption and production are the same thing.
Commons
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.
Commons
Memes as digital crafts
Felipe G. Gil
A democratic source of collective creativity, memes define our digital culture through transformative 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
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.
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
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.
Technology
Renata Ávila: “The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have the Internet of surveillance and control”
Karma Peiró
An interview with this specialist in human rights, technology and freedom of expression to discuss how today’s societies are advancing to the drumbeat of “digital colonialism”.