Recovering Memory to Rebuild the Collective Network Body text (1,828 characters, 7 paragraphs): The history of the internet told from below is not a story of technology, but of collective struggle. Marta G. Franco, in her book “Las redes son nuestras. Una historia popular de internet y un mapa para volver a habitarla” (“The Networks Are Ours: A People’s History […]
Since 2010, the use of algorithms and big data systems has enabled corporations and institutions to control, classify, and exclude vulnerable individuals and groups in digital society. These automated models, presented as neutral, reproduce existing inequalities and amplify social discrimination. In the book Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil examines how these systems affect key areas such as credit, employment, […]
The book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019), by Professor Emerita Shoshana Zuboff, is a fundamental analysis of the power of data-mining technologies. Published at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the book emerged as a response to the collusion between corporations like Google and Facebook and government agencies to commodify human experience. Zuboff documents in the book how, […]