We talk to the journalist about minimalism and how this trend affects us when it comes to relating to the world that surrounds us. Minimalism is a trend. But this aesthetic current, which encourages people to have and need less, has been swallowed up by the logic of capitalism and used to homogenise aesthetic trends […]
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Towards a New News Ethic
The phenomenon of fake news and algorithms is forcing us to reconsider the difference between source and channel and the need for a global news ethic. The internet has represented a change of scale on all levels that has affected the way that we access, consume and relate to information. In a few years, we […]
Introduction This case study covers the collaboration of a whole network of Catalan public libraries with Wikipedia & Wikimedia projects. This documentation focues on the motivations for their collaboration, the activities engaging the libraries and the influence and impact of that initiative on ideas around open access and the Wikimedia community within the libraries sector. […]
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Africa from the West: a Biased View
Africa is clearly subject to systemic bias: it is under-represented from the point of view of participation, content, and perspective. The exhibition Making Africa invites us to reflect on how little we know about Africa, and on the fact that we have historically looked at the continent from a Western or Eurocentric perspective, through our […]
With more than fifteen million items compiled in the space of just three years, Wikidata is set to become the main open data repository worldwide. The eagerly awaited promise of linked open data seems to have finally arrived: a multilingual, totally open database in the public domain, which can be read and edited by both […]