I have always experienced and pursued journalism beyond the written text that fills the newspaper’s columns. The text, the written language, that dominates the pages is only part of the story. The shape and form, empty spaces, size and hierarchical…
A/B Testing: The Most Interesting Title Ever (Really)
In this probe, I want to explore some ideas about how algorithms are shaping our view of what we know about current affairs. But before jumping to any conclusions of technological determinism, I must clarify that algorithms should not be…
Too fast, too furious
Incomplete thoughts about accelerationism: A project to overcome capitalism or a bunch of white-male-rich boys seeking to get profit and control the world? (update: later expanded and refined to be used in a conference paper: http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/accelerating-sharing-economy-ubers-dysfunctional-discourse-of-technological-disruption/) The “#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for…
A few thoughts on culture industry
Social Control Communication theorists and advertiser experts (Lazarsfield & Merton, 1969; Schramm, 1954) explain mass communication effect based on consumers’ needs, and for that reason, culture was accepted with so little resistance. This produces a positive feedback, a circle of…
Digitization and Globalization of Informality
I am still amazed that people would think about informal job, or informal life, as something inherent to poor people, especially those not living in the so-called developed countries. For the majority of people, informality is something bad, unsafe, dangerous.…
The criticism of the algorithm: Understanding the metrics
The Implementing New knowledge Environments research project, or just INKE, aims to study new ways of dealing with text documents, especially academic books, and literary texts. Led by Ray Siemens (University of Victoria), the project is multidisciplinary, involving 35 researchers…