Editorial
Algorithmic Anxieties & Feminist Futures in MENA
For a region like the MENA (which some authors refer to as S/WANA, others as Arabic-speaking countries), tech policy problems are compounded with a litany of daily struggles, most devastating of these being occupation, war, conflict, and displacement which affects, we sometimes forget, two billion people - a quarter of the world’s population. People Like Us are often…
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Feminists in the Panopticon: How Surveillance Capitalism Captures Feminist Movements
In this article, Nadz Moawad invites you to use this AI hype to think of its economic undercurrent, surveillance capitalism, as equally urgent. Thinking about AI needs futurology, but thinking about surveillance economies requires history. They make the argument that radical movements, feminists especially, have been captured by this new economy and that a migration…
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[EDITORIAL] How Internet Technology Will Affect Rights: 3 Things to Look For
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La cuestión de los juegos
El problema con los juegos es que su poder de absorción es muy difícil de explicar a los que no juegan. Y no estoy hablando de esos jueguitos de los centros comerciales que te ayudan a pasar el rato (aunque creo que el tiempo invertido frente a una pantalla es totalmente legítimo. ¡Larga vida a Candy Crushers!). Me refiero a los videojuegos de estrategia en tiempo real o RTS (…