Category: Season 1
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Geert Lovink: Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism
We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like and all we end up with are toxic viral memes, online addiction, and the lure of fake news – as if the impossibility of generating anything alternative is coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. Geert Lovink, a scholar,…
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Human Ecosystems Relazioni (H.E.R.): Data with the People
Two experiments in two Roman neighborhoods, generating collaborative data based on non-extractive methods, exploring big data and artificial intelligence from a cultural perspective. H.E.R. (Human Ecosystems Relazioni) is a private research center that moved from England to Italy, and engages with data research from a cultural point of view. Salvatore Iaconesi, engineer, hacker and designer,…
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Lawrence Lessig: Whither Remix Culture, A Decade Later
Whither Remix Culture, A Decade Later The freedom to remix, a decade later: How has the Internet changed the freedom the Internet first gave us? In this talk, Harvard professor, attorney, and political activist Lawrence Lessig, the man who conceptualized remix culture and founded Creative Commons, reflects on how the right to remix has evolved,…
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C.I.R.C.E Research Group: Technologies of Domination and Hacker Pedagogy
How do technologies of domination work? How are our lives affected by them? From digital self-defense to hacker pedagogy, C.I.R.C.E. share recipes to spread digital awareness and solutions for an ecological relationship with machines. We live in Internet-connected environments in which personal and collective choices shift towards algorithmic-driven decision making. C.I.R.C.E. outlines a methodology to…