by Marta | Oct 2, 2019 | Newsletter
A while ago I organised a panel discussion around the working concept of “spaces in-between”, an attempt to put a name on what is left out of the pure binary logic of algorithms and pretentiously “objective” data-driven inferences. At the time I was mainly thinking of...
by Marta | Sep 4, 2019 | Newsletter
June 2019 has been defined as a milestone in Google’s evolution from search engine to walled-garden. Data from 40 million US browser-based searches show that roughly half of Google searches does not lead to any click. This means that half of organic search (“googling”...
by Marta | Aug 1, 2019 | Newsletter
For some sort of cognitive bias, we tend to think that what is on a map is actually mapped. The time Earth exploration was a journey on a vessel designing new cartographies is remote in our imaginary. We think we mapped it all. Nonetheless, we call the Earth the “blue...
by Marta | Jun 26, 2019 | Newsletter
I’d like to think of privacy as an experience, taking place in a free off-the-record space where we can just do and be. An experience implies a range of experience, a range of possibility where experience can actually take place. A range of possibilities welcomes in...
by Marta | May 19, 2019 | Newsletter
I have to admit that in the increasing appropriation and marketing of the “tech for good” debate by big tech, “tech for evil” approaches become very appealing. For instance, we can look into a desirable evolution of the technology presence in our life by speculating...
by Marta | Apr 30, 2019 | Newsletter
A recent paper about cognition constraints in digital and physical spaces shows that it is not so straightforward to accuse technology of downgrading our nature. Researchers found that individuals exhibit a conserved capacity that limits the number of applications...
