Culture
Technology
Rethinking the Internet from the cultural sector
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways of raising awareness and tackling the challenges faced by the Internet.
Technology
Internet, Internet!
The better we know the potentials and risks of the Internet and the technologies that accelerate and expand it, the better we will be able to use them to create a more critical, creative and democratic world.
Commons
Pedro Inoue: “The innocent bystander no longer exists”
Felipe G. Gil
We talk with the creative director of the magazine Adbusters who dissects the relationships between narrative and politics, science fiction and reality, and the left and pop culture.
Technology
Freeport: a Dissection of the Invisible Internet
Karma Peiró
A summer school focusing on art, communication technologies and a networked planet.
Commons
Memes and Strange Politics
Jaron Rowan
Emerging from the tension between the political and politics is a form of aesthetic expression that renews the debate in the public sphere.
Technology
The Dark Web, Between the Myth and the Promise of Anonymity
Ferran Esteve
The uses of the hidden Internet seem to move between two opposing poles: illegitimate activities and political activism.
Technology
African Cyberactivism Against Censorship
Carlos Bajo
Africa has been an experimentation laboratory for Internet espionage, censorship and denunciation by civil society alike.
Commons
Technology
Technological Sovereignty? Democracy, Data and Governance in the Digital Era
Gemma Galdon
Technological sovereignty must become another pillar on which to gradually construct and consolidate a new technological model that is ethical, responsible and civic.
Technology
Governments Against the Networks. Freedom of Expression on the Internet
Ferran Esteve
In response to the growing importance of the social media networks for activism, governments are increasing their control over Internet platforms and users.
Culture
Digital Revolution and Cultural Trends: the Influencer Phenomenon
Liliana Arroyo
New opinion leaders use emotions and affinity to connect with audiences, often breaking the traditional hierarchy.
Technology
Fake News: Sharing is Caring
Sandra Álvaro
Algorithmic filter bubbles on the Internet limit the diversity of viewpoints we see and make it easier to spread fabricated information.
Technology
Dossier
Internet in the World
The internet is the great symbol of globalisation. But the internet is also a territory with its own borders, folklore, and geopolitics.