Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales

Reseña/Book Review (Vargas-Monroy, Liliana, Pujal i Llombart, Margot, (coord. /ed.), “Género y poder: exploraciones situadas en el sistema colonial-moderno”, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, ISBN/DOI: 978-958-781-822-2, 328, 2023)

2025-04-10T10:40:53+00:00

Reseña/Book Review (Vargas-Monroy, Liliana, Pujal i Llombart, Margot, (coord. /ed.), “Género y poder: exploraciones situadas en el sistema colonial-moderno”, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, ISBN/DOI: 978-958-781-822-2, 328, 2023)

Reseña/Review (Franklin-Wallis, Oliver, “Vertedero. La sucia realidad de lo que tiramos, a dónde va y por qué importa”, Editorial Capitán Swing, S.L., ISBN/DOI: 978-84-129530-0-8, 392 págs., 2025)

2025-04-10T10:40:35+00:00

Mapping of AI narrative tools applied to journalism

2025-04-10T10:40:50+00:00

This study presents an indicative map of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that may potentially enhance digital journalism by providing journalists with new means of creating and disseminating information. The selection process relied upon the walkthrough method, which was conducted as part of a broader study on the integration of AI into editing systems. The sample set was selected from the Observatory for News Innovation in the Information Society (Oi2), which is a joint project between the Office of Communication and Education of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and RTVE.

Machines and Potentialities to Liberate the Accelerationist Discourse

2025-04-10T10:40:38+00:00

Accelerationism has been a much-discussed ideological movement since the 2010s. Ever since Benjamin Noys coined the adjective ‘accelerationist’ as a harsh critique of the post-structuralist postulates of May ‘68 and its subsequent readings, the ideological movement has been vilified, reducing it to a capitalophilic and reactionary speed. Nick Land's work has functioned as a gravitational force that subdues all reflection on accelerationism, preventing an emancipatory and critical reading of capitalism. This article makes use of the subjugated knowledges described by Foucault to liberate accelerationist potencies from unilateral and reductionist readings. Accelerationism, considering the texts of Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, among others, disregards the collapse proposed by reactionary groups and opts for a rational impulse when selecting which elements must be developed in order to find a way out of the current system.

What is the purpose of a university journal of social sciences? From L’Année Sociologique to the predators of symbolic power

2025-03-07T10:20:10+00:00

Algorithmic Assemblages of Power: AI Harm and the Question of Responsibility

2025-04-10T10:40:37+00:00

Current debates on AI harm primarily focus on issues directly associated with AI systems, such as algorithmic harm or bias. In this article, I argue that AI harm should be analyzed through a power-aware lens using a systemic and multidimensional approach that accounts for the multiple scales at which harm unfolds—macro, meso, and micro. Reducing AI harm to mere technical failure or a lack of representation in data risks oversimplifying the issue. AI is not just a set of technologies, but a sociotechnical assemblage—a complex interplay of communities, markets, resources, labor, processes, practices, regulations, institutions, and knowledge systems. Its current form not only impacts society at multiple levels but also actively reproduces harm and structural violence at scale, exacerbating power asymmetries both within and across nations. This raises the question of who should be held accountable for harm across multiple scales and what frameworks should be established to address it. A feminist critique of AI frames harm through an ethics of care, emphasizing the need to place human rights at the core of AI governance, ecosystems, and systems.

Female streamers on Twitch: Cyberfeminism against gender-based violence

2025-04-10T10:40:57+00:00

n the context of platform capitalism, where citizens increasingly socialise in online spaces, this study analyses how female streamers perceive themselves and their experiences on Twitch in relation to the gender-based violence they suffer online. Based on twenty-six in-depth interviews, the research reveals that Twitch is a masculinised platform that cannot be considered as a safe space for female streamers. Cyberbullying occurs on the platform through different forms of violence, prompting the deployment of cyberfeminist strategies to counteract this violence. These actions help mitigate the inadequate measures taken by the platform to address gender-based violence on its channels.

A Panorama of Brazilian documentary film activism in the 2010s

2025-04-10T10:40:43+00:00

This article analyzes Brazilian documentaries from the last decade, investigating their narrative and visual strategies and relating them to emerging video activism practices. Referred to here as ‘documentary cine-activism’, this set of films belongs to the context of militant cinema, updated by contemporary social activism and new image broadcasting technologies via the internet. It is divided into two trends: the first one resulting from the events of June 2013, which street demonstrations are elaborated imagetically, questions the political disputes that occurred through these images. The second trend refers to the developments of the aforementioned event, focusing on the student strikes of 2015 and the 2016 coup d'état, in which Workers’ Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff — in office since 2011, and reelected in 2014 — was ousted. The conclusion examines how new technologies are transforming militant cinema, emphasizing the individual perspectives and narrative approaches of political actors directly involved in the events. It explores the diverse ways in which these actors engage with and recollect archival images, contrasting their use with hegemonic media, thereby integrating them into an active political strategy.

Death in cyberworlds. Narratives from necromedia for reflection, mourning and memory in contemporary cultural and artistic production

2025-04-10T10:40:59+00:00

From a historical point of view, photography has been able to help us reflect and reinterpret the concept of death, so diverse in different cultures. In fact, digital images resulting from technological advances and the Internet, understood as an interconnected network, have made it possible to create new spaces to reflect on death. From the video game environment, where it is treated superficially as a narrative resource, to social networks, where people have the opportunity to share grieving processes, the visuality of death takes on multiple forms. In these hyperconnected spaces where users coexist under the appearance of profiles and avatars, sharing their concerns, tastes and experiences, a new memory paradigm exists for post-mortem interaction and remembrance.

Moral panics in social media times: Disinformation and panic about what others say and read on the internet

2025-04-10T10:40:41+00:00

Este artículo busca demostrar la relevancia teórica y conceptual del concepto de pánico moral para entender y explicar la producción mediática de problemas sociales. Para ejemplificarlo, analizamos las preocupaciones sociales en torno a la desinformación, algo que nos permite explorar la relación entre el miedo a la desinformación y la ansiedad social en relación con las consecuencias de la proliferación de discursos online. Nuestro argumento es que, en el entorno mediático actual, marcado por la digitalización y la centralidad de las redes sociales, los medios generan constantemente, imágenes y narrativas sobre la desviación, diseñadas para provocar indignación y pánico moral en el público. Esta competencia permanente por la "producción de pánico" se convierte en una lucha por controlar las tendencias diarias y, paradójicamente, puede dificultar la aparición de pánicos morales sólidos y duraderos, como los descritos por Cohen. Sin embargo, estos pánicos potenciales y efímeros se agrupan en torno a ansiedades y temores sociales, reforzándolos y creando un terreno fértil para la aparición de nuevos episodios de pánico moral.

Technological regimentation: Artificial intelligence, fascism, aggression, and democratic society

2025-04-10T10:40:48+00:00

Artificially intelligent systems are sophisticated tools that help us to decide and to behave independently in a hybrid, symbiotic world in between humans and machines. This article reflects on the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and political forms, especially in its authoritarian version. A return to fascism through digital means is one of the possibilities that have been pointed out by those who have warned about the risks of developing a generative artificial intelligence fostering the autonomy and adaptability of systems. The article examines this thesis and identifies some of the elements to consider—warfare, the strategic behaviour of large technological corporations, their mindset, and the practical philosophy underlying governance models. The article pays particular attention to Alexander Karp's PhD dissertation in Philosophy on aggression and reframes the question of fascism from the idea of ‘over-compliance’ and ‘regimentation’. Fascism is not the issue in this new environment; innovation, power, and governance, are.

Virtual assistants, labor and care/data/surveillance. Configurations of AI in Feminist disputes

2025-04-10T10:40:54+00:00

This article aims to explore AI virtual assistants, which represent an automation of what has traditionally been considered feminized labor and are marketed as technologies for personal organization and interpersonal connection. Virtual assistants come to transform work both inside and outside the home, but they maintain gender stereotypes by presenting themselves as a servile, affectionate, and non-threatening technology. This also reveals gender, class, and race biases, as well as their extractivist logic of data and surveillance. While from feminist positions, virtual assistants are recognized as new allies of the home, as they make domestic and caregiving tasks visible and valuable through technologization, it is necessary from critical, sociotechnical and posthuman feminisms to question the logics of efficiency and autonomy, and to advocate for an understanding of care from a vital interdependence that involves both humans and artifacts.

The challenge of content moderation in generative artificial intelligence: ChatGPT under the regulatory framework of the European Union

2025-04-10T10:40:44+00:00

This article addresses the issue of content moderation in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) systems. Through the case of ChatGPT, we explore how the different regulatory instruments recently promoted by the European Union do not explicitly address the moderation of content generated by GAI. Additionally, it is argued that private platforms continue to operate with a high degree of discretion, raising significant concerns about their ability to manage the inherent risks of GAI fairly and effectively. The text emphasizes the importance of democratizing governance around content moderation to protect users without compromising fundamental freedoms, as well as the multicultural nature of online space.

Digital partisans: An inquiry on the use of bots for political propaganda in Mexico

2025-04-10T10:40:56+00:00

In 2025, due to the popularization of AI applications such as ChatGPT, there has been a renewed interest in Artificial Intelligence. Politics have not been immune to this tendency. The presence of AI is seen as a promising tool to promote candidates and parties on social media, but also as a potential weapon that may be used to instigate misinformation and to deceive. This article is founded on the interception of artificial intelligence, disinformation, and media coverage. It covers a timeline of eight years, from 2016 to 2023. We focuse on AI bots in Mexico and its use in politics. Its objectives are to analyze how Mexican newspapers have portrayed the use of bots in national politics through content analysis techniques and framing theory, and to examine the evidence provided by media coverage regarding the existence of a bot market for politics in Mexico.

Academic Social Innovation in Times of Cognitive Capitalism: The Case of the Collaborative Prompt Library

2025-04-10T10:40:46+00:00

The article examines how implementing a Collaborative Prompt Library (CPL) can enhance creativity and drive social innovation within the framework of cognitive capitalism. It employs a participatory action research methodology in three cases: Tesicafé, the Autonomous University of Quintana Roo (UQROO), and the AI Laboratory for Social Research (UNAM). The findings highlight the generation of collective knowledge, the bridging of gaps in knowledge appropriation, and the importance of configuring effective prompts to socially hack artificial intelligence. This study promotes ethical, critical, and active participation in the use of AI as a commons.

Power and politics of Artificial Intelligence

2025-04-10T10:40:33+00:00

The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence has sparked both fascination and fear in recent years. This article argues against a monolithic conception of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an inexorable ‘megamachine’ and critiques its instrumentalization within a systemic model dominated by corporate interests. AI is a technology embedded in capitalist power relations that reinforce extractivism, dispossession, and exclusion on all scales. The article, presenting the special issue ‘Power and politics of AI’, vol.22(2), claims for a new political imagination that would enable a reconsideration of technology’s role in society from an emancipatory and democratic perspective.

Environmental Time

2025-04-10T10:40:40+00:00

This video essay juxtaposes selected footage from Nomadland (2020) and Anthropocene: The human epoch (2018) to explore the films’ hauntological landscapes, proposing a creative engagement with the dilated durations of ‘environmental time’ (Nixon 2011). By weaving together different temporalities of extractivism and extinction by means of multiple-screen format, it poses questions about the capacity of videographic ecocriticism to make viewers notice the violence of delayed destruction. Conceptualized and first draft completed at the Workshop on Videographic Criticism, Middlebury College, 2024.