We're excited to share the publication of a new @culanth.bsky.social blog series “Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America” related to The Future of Facts Project by @aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social culanth.org/fieldsights/...

✨New article✨in @tapuya.org👇

📌New Thematic Cluster just out! "The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺 👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/ #FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

✨New special issue✨ coedited with @aballes2.bsky.social and @krether.bsky.social. The special issue published by @tapuya.org is tied to a multiyear interdisciplinary working group on the "Future of Facts in Latin America" funded by @ssrc.org. #latinamerica #sts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Attention #LatinAmericanSTS! Tapuya is now on Bluesky and they have a starter pack for Latin American STS. Come join the conversation! If you are working in the area of STS and Latin America, contact @tapuya.org to be added.

Joke courtesy of Guy Fedorkow of the MIT Museum: How do you display software?

✨New article✨: Check out "Seeds, Dams, and Khipus : Latin America's Eclectic Recent History of Technology" co-authored with @dc-a.bsky.social and @pr-c.bsky.social in Technology & Culture.

New Paper: Sarah Williams, Sara Beery, Christopher Conley, Michael Lawrence Evans, Santiago Garces, Eric Gordon, Nigel Jacob, and Eden Medina. 2024. “People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. tinyurl.com/ypm27x48

Congratulations to MIT HASTS student Mariel García-Montes for being featured on the MIT homepage! Read about Mariel's important work on surveillance in Mexico & technology for the public interest. Screenshot of homepage below, full article here: tinyurl.com/2875bjxu #proudadvisor

Excited to teach my fall doctoral seminar STS.461 History and Social Study of Computing. There will be readings both old and new, an all star list of authors stopping by or zooming in, and a visit to the MIT Museum to discuss public engagement with computer history. First class meets on Tuesday!

Excellent summary from Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social of the first bilingual SHOT opening plenary, which was held on the beautiful campus of the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Viña del Mar, Chile. Be sure to follow Ben for future #SHOT2024 updates!

I enjoyed being part of the podcast series "Crossing Fronteras" with co-hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar. The podcast features conversations with scholars and artists who are "crossing boundaries and expanding the frontiers of Latin American and Caribbean Studies." tinyurl.com/bddtjts6

Next week Hugo Palmarola, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, and I will be giving talks in NYC. First stop: the University Seminar on Latin America @ Columbia. We will talk about our recent full-scale reconstruction of the Cybersyn operations room in Santiago, Chile. March 7 @ 7pm. RSVP tinyurl.com/4etffh7r.

Congrats to @HASTS_MIT student Alex Reiss-Sorokin on being named the 2023-24 Tomash Fellow. Learn more about her dissertation project, “From Research to Search: Technologies of Legal Research, 1964-1994” from @babbageinstitute.bsky.social @justcodeculture.bsky.social cse.umn.edu/cbi/feature-...

Como diseñar una revolución // How to Design a Revolution in MIT News. Learn about the fantastic MIT students involved in the exhibition! Thanks also to the original designers who helped us recreate the objects and environments in the photos. news.mit.edu/2023/designi...