social media

Technology

Remember the Human

Albert Lloreta

Reddit, the interface between digital niches and the mainstream, is one of the battle grounds for debates on freedom of expression and toxicity in the era of the great algorithm.

Commons

The Fight of African Women

Carlos Bajo

African women have found in social media networks a space for denouncing the discrimination that reigns in conventional police, court and legislative structures.

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

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

Fake news and censorship in Africa

Carlos Bajo

We analyse the particularities of the fake news phenomenon in the African continent: from its instrumentalization by governments to the mobilisation of citizens in favour of an Internet free of censorship and hate speech.