Nuevos espacios de comunicación, relación y activismo en la era digital: la Red como oportunidad para el feminismo / New spaces of communication, relation and activism in the digital age: the Net as an opportunity for feminism by Diana Fernández Romero, Patricia Corredor Lanas, Marina Santín Durán

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Speculative Black Digital Territories in Brazil by Edward King

“…The article ends by considering the Baobáxia network as an enactment of speculative technology by placing it in the context of recent works of Afrofuturist science fiction, including the 2019 film Bacurau, that have reimagined the quilombo for the digital age. While Big Tech platforms use online data to predict and therefore control the behaviour of internet users (which Sun-ha Hong describes as “technologies of speculation”), Baobáxia takes a step towards placing control of the future in the hands of communities and therefore reinstating the possibility of a future that might be different to the present.…”
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Ethical issues related to gen editing using CRISPR-Cas9 technology by Andrea Mariel Actis

“…Immersed already in the 4th industrial revolution, clearly the digital age has invaded our lives. People tend to celebrate every technological and scientific advance without thinking properly about the possible undesired side effects or unexpected consequences. …”
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