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Popular science has a formula

Several people who work in science communication have told me this book feels like it was written for them. They know the popular version of every story in it, and they’re tired of repeating metaphors they know are incomplete.

Digital Tribulations 15: Digital Decolonialism from Mexico to Latin America

Interview with Paola Ricaurte Quijano. The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here.  I first met Paola Ricaurte in Rio de Janeiro during the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. Paola is a leading scholar and a founding member of […]

Paint me like one of your online propaganda girls

There’s a video circulating online that opens with a little girl sitting by a rainy window. She asks her mom where Dad is and when he will come back. The mother answers “soon”. The rain keeps pouring in the next scene, in which a man, whom we assume to be the child’s father, is executed […]