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The importance of hemispheric perspectives for the environmental humanities: reflections on bilingual digital environmental justice storytelling 半球视角对环境人文学科的重要性:对双语数字环境正义叙事的反思

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2098685

K. Lyons, M. Howarth

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Figures and responsibilities in contexts of mass violence: limits and risks of quantification in transitional justice in Colombia 大规模暴力背景下的数字和责任:哥伦比亚过渡时期司法量化的限制和风险

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2085648

Andrés Fernando Suarez

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Civilizing mummies: an adventure of technicians in archaeological collections 文明木乃伊:考古收藏技术人员的冒险

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-12 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2068332

Felipe Raglianti

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The road ahead: narratives and imaginaries of the value of biodiversity in shaping bioeconomy policy in Colombia 前方的道路:对哥伦比亚生物多样性在制定生物经济政策中的价值的叙述和想象

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-05 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2059137

Alberto Aparicio

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A terrestrial Internet from the quilombos: the transatlantic evolution of baobab from colonial to digital capitalism 从歌伦波人到地面互联网:猴面包树从殖民到数字资本主义的跨大西洋进化

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-05-12 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2037818

Shaozeng Zhang, Mariana Ribeiro Porto Araujo, Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes

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引用次数: 2

The technology of need: technology of sustainability? 需求技术:可持续性技术?

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-04-27 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2041789

Alexis Mercado, K. Cordova, H. Vessuri

{"title":"The technology of need: technology of sustainability?","authors":"Alexis Mercado, K. Cordova, H. Vessuri","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2022.2041789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2041789","url":null,"abstract":"Hyper competitiveness accelerates the pace of innovation and generates an impressive increase in the number of products that are introduced in the market daily (Harvey and Griffith 2007). Nevertheless, most of these products are not designed to satisfy basic needs and their distribution among the population is uneven, increasing social exclusion. The technological systems (Hughes 1987) in which innovations take place have, in many cases, evident features of unsustainability. This is because there is an increased use of raw materials and energy to manufacture consumer goods (tangible or intangible) especially those oriented to satisfy the consumption aspirations of a little fraction of humankind. This is supported by an important rise in the capabilities of knowledge production, posing a paradox: on the one side, more efficient technologies are developed allowing the increase of industry and services efficiency which can result in a reduction of the environmental impact. On the other side, it increases the possibility of nature appropriation and transformation, mainly by the intensive exploitation of resources, both traditional (e.g. iron, bauxite, copper, coal, petroleum, limestone, etc.) and new ones (e.g. rare earth, coltan, Lithium salts), and the growing generation of new waste polluting. Therefore, outputs are often unsustainable. This leads to questioning the current sociotechnical structure and the need of exploring alternatives that, inevitably, must induce a rethinking of the notions of technology, production, and consumption. During the sixties and seventies of the past century, there was a debate about development models and the technological systems supporting them. Several studies warned against the negative impacts of technological development and industrial growth, urging for their reorientation (Carson 1962; Meadows et al. 1972; Dickson 1980; Schumacher 1978). Nevertheless, an economic-productive model, based on continuous growth, in","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84613283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Care during exceptional times: results of the CUIDAR study on the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile 特殊时期的护理:智利COVID-19大流行的CUIDAR研究结果

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2038858

Sebastián Rojas-Navarro, Francisco Moller-Domínguez, Samanta Alarcón-Arcos, María-Alejandra Energici, Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus

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引用次数: 2

Territories of data: ontological divergences in the growth of data infrastructure 数据领域:数据基础设施增长中的本体论分歧

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-04-11 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2035936

Sebastián Lehuedé

{"title":"Territories of data: ontological divergences in the growth of data infrastructure","authors":"Sebastián Lehuedé","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2022.2035936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2035936","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The construction of astronomical observatories in the Atacama Desert has prompted different actors in Chile to envision initiatives for promoting the expansion of data infrastructure. While such projects are usually seen as synonymous with development, Lickan Antay Indigenous activists affected by the construction of an observatory consider this situation the beginning of a new chapter in their history of territorial struggle. Building upon political ontology, this article argues that the growth of data infrastructures can underpin ontological divergences concerning the territory, i.e. what territory is and its relation with other entities. To do so, it compares two divergent ontologies of territory emerging in the Chilean context. While the Natural Laboratories policy and the Datagonia project transform the territory into a source of economic resources affording opportunities for developing data infrastructure (assetized ontology of territory), Lickan Antay activists conceive of territory as a unitary whole made up by human and other-than-human interdependencies (relational ontology of territory). Based on a discursive-material analysis of interviews and documents, this article delves into the ontological dimension of data colonialism and proposes an infrastructural regime that does not reproduce terricide and is aligned with the flourishing of multiple worlds.","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75522718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coordinated campaigns on Twitter during the coronavirus health crisis in Mexico 在墨西哥冠状病毒健康危机期间，在推特上协调运动

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2035935

C. Piña-García, A. Espinoza

{"title":"Coordinated campaigns on Twitter during the coronavirus health crisis in Mexico","authors":"C. Piña-García, A. Espinoza","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2022.2035935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2035935","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social media is fast becoming a key instrument to manipulate or influence social perception. Digital platforms are having a serious effect on the manipulation of public opinion through the spread of political propaganda and message amplification via coordinated campaigns. As one of the most used social platforms among politicians and democratic governments, Twitter plays a critical role in how information flows through trending topics. The main purpose of this study is to explore how coordinated campaigns, in this case astroturfing, were used to influence and manipulate public opinion during the coronavirus health crisis in Mexico. Our research provides new insights into the early detection of astroturfing and artificial amplification, in order to expose the efforts to manipulate online discourse in Mexico. In the pages that follow, it will be argued that Mexico is currently experiencing online manipulation through malicious strategies that may threaten its democracy. The following hashtags were used to explore and compare our approach in Mexico: #GatellOrgulloMexicano (Gatell Mexican Pride) and #AMLOPresidenteDeLaSalud (AMLO President of Health). This study intends to build awareness and to improve the public’s understanding coordinated behavior on Twitter.","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87350109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 10

Collaborating as peers or targeted by science diplomacy? The participation of Latin American researchers in the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 作为同行合作还是成为科学外交的目标?拉丁美洲研究人员参加欧洲研究和创新框架方案

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.2003282

Consuelo Uribe-Mallarino

{"title":"Collaborating as peers or targeted by science diplomacy? The participation of Latin American researchers in the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation","authors":"Consuelo Uribe-Mallarino","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2021.2003282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2021.2003282","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we discuss whether Latin American researchers participate in the European Research and Innovation Framework Programme (FP) by joining European colleagues as peers, or by being targeted as part of a science diplomacy initiative. We analyse the participation of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico (LAC) in the 7th (2007–2013) and 8th (2014–2020) programs, based on CORDIS data and the Open Aire repository. We determine the scope of these countries’ participation and the variables that intervene. Results show that funding received by LAC organizations decreased significantly from the 7th to the 8th FP due to an increase in projects with no EU monetary contribution. Co-authoring with European partners or by domestic authors in publications issued from these projects by LAC researchers represented an average 12% of all publications in both FPs, and it was marginal in some projects and decisive in others, depending on the topic of research. We conclude that the participation of these countries due to EU science diplomacy actions was important in the 7th FP and less so in H2020 and that this involvement has become less dependent on their being targeted as a region, or by Spain’s brokerage as coordinator.","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85941470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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