Digital Humanities

Writing our future freedom ourselves

Society was so worried about potential government interventions into the digital sphere, that powerful Silicon Valley companies swept in and largely took over instead. Our digital future must free us away from them.

by Jillian York

Selfie culture

Selfies don't come out of nowhere: for centuries self-representation mirrored and shaped societies and identities through different devices.

by Riccardo Trabattoni

The complexity of reality

Reality is complex, so much so that there’s an entire institution devoted to studying this issue.

by Edoardo Maggio

The great WWW swindle

The way the internet has evolved over the years does not exactly reflect its roots.

by Philip Di Salvo

About digital and spirituality

Love the stranger within us and the strangers with whom we wander.

by Matteo Scanni

The dreams of digital humanities

A brief history of the wonders of binary encoding of culture. 

by Andrea Bolioli

The World Wide Web utopia

Humanity should be the purpose of data and machines at work, but, today, that's not quite the case.

by Vittorio Di Tomaso

Our digital lives, a pollution nightmare

In the digital sphere, waste products are not poured into the environment around us but end up stored in giant server towns.

by Riccardo Coluccini

What is technological utopianism?

Science is capable of leading humankind to a new condition. This faith may be techno-utopian thinkers' only common attribute.

by Alberto Tundo

A state of independence from The internet

How can we manage a World Wide Web that is inherently separate from reality, where our usual rules do not apply?

by Philip Di Salvo

Data whining

Can we truly understand machines if they are built on falsehoods and fallacies?

by Vittorio Di Tomaso

Digital ethics to shape post AI societies

The ongoing technology transformations pose crucial ethical questions concerning our environment, societies, and human flourishing.

by Mariarosaria Taddeo

It’s time for AI to get ethical

Tech companies have been granted access to an unlimited amount of data, an issue that really entangles ethics when it comes to Healthcare.

by Bart de Witte

What is net nutrality?

Net neutrality is the principle that all data is equal and must be treated so accordingly by Internet Service Providers.

by MAIZE

Laziness, technology and brain-scanning a billion people

The calculus gave us a new way to look at the world, and we emerged as a different species.

by Robert C. Wolcott