I feel like I aged five years in the last two. I spent the last two years at the Comparative Media Studies department and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, and generally soaking in the congregation of public interest technologists and community media makers in Cambridge and…
Category: Tech for Social Justice
On growing up, change(s) and gratitude
tl;dr: In autumn 2016, I am relocating from Mexico City to Boston for two years. I will be studying at my dream program, Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and RAing at the Center for Civic Media. This long post talks about the story behind this and my takeaways from it. I…
An editatonera at Wikimania
This post is a translation of the one I wrote for Mujeres Construyendo in Spanish. On the one hand, as someone interested in youth and media, I pay reverence to the fact that Wikipedia is always in the top three results for any web search. On the other hand, I’ve had a wikiaccount since I…
The things I ask myself everyday
I have spent a good chunk of the last few months pondering about my essence. Or, really, to leave philosophical lingo aside: I have been thinking about what makes me the person I am. These days, I am defined primarily by what I do and the people I am with – something I will never take…
Editatona
This post (that I originally published in Spanish here) is about an initiative I have been involved in lately, and that I love to bits – Editatona, the first effort in Latin America to reduce the gender gap in Wikipedia. We held the first one on Jan 31st, and the awesome collective of feminists behind…
Mexico City DiscoTech
This post was originally published at codesign.mit.edu ——- The 2012 elections brought political change in Mexico, and it hasn’t been positive in terms of State surveillance. At a time when threats to journalists and human rights defenders continue to increase, several reforms have been pushed in the federal and local congresses to make surveillance of…
Hippying it up on Pinterest
One of the things I enjoy the most in life is getting to learn about what other people are doing to incorporate ‘hippy-ism’ into their lives. Okay, I know one of the reasons why I will never go far in life is that I keep making up concepts and using them to designate things I’m…
Hippy purists beware: The Second Life Relay for Life
(Grace, this post is a little tribute for you!) My first exploration of the virtual world phenomenon Second Life at age 16 will always be in my memory. It was the moment in which all the things I had assumed not just about the world of gaming, but about technology, aesthetics and even metaphysics, crushed under…
Internet, human rights and the UN (III)
In the previous post, I spoke about a few major things that had been said about the Internet at the UN before the publication of the report that inspired this post series. I said a link between Internet access and development had been accepted, but that human rights and Internet had yet to be explicitly…
Internet, human rights and the UN (II)
In the first post on Internet+human rights+UN ramblings, I posed a dilemma (is the Internet access such a novelty that it must be considered a brand new human right on its own, or is it analogous to other communication tools already covered by human rights documents?), and now it’s time to see where the UN…
Internet, human rights and the UN (I)
I know the title for this post is really boring (especially when compared to my friend’s UFC-inspired fight references in academic philosophy papers), but the topic for today is actually very trendy. The buzzworders are all over it. In June 2011, media worldwide started reporting on an interesting event: the UN ‘had declared internet access…