Affective Publics and Defective Politics

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This post was written by Dylan O’Sullivan, a Research Masters student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. I. #CancelSpotify In the words of Bloomberg columnist Lionel Laurent, Spotify is having a “Facebook moment” (Ghosh, 2022). On the 1st of January, a group of scientific and medical professionals published “An Open…

Expectations of the Transparency Agenda in Brazil

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This post was written by Sandy Rafaela Krambeck, a Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Brazil established its Access to Information Law (LAI) in 2012, which opened up possibilities to develop databases that can be subjected to new experiences with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Operação Serenata de Amor (OSA)…