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Science to perpetuate statu quo

Lyotard warned us decades ago in his seminal work The Postmodern Condition about science’s legitimation crisis. Not that science lacks legitimacy entirely, but that it has abandoned what he considered “beautiful” legitimation. Instead of pursuing truth or improving humanity’s condition, modern science operates under what Lyotard called the performativity principle: science must be profitable,…

Science to perpetuate statu quo

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How to teach media literacy?

[This post is an English translation of a class material for the UNED master of learning and communication in the Internet. The original posts was published in 2015] Media Literacy? Sounds… ehhh… what’s that? We can find hundreds of definitions, but for me Media Literacy is about “Build our Educator’ words” (Daniel Prieto Castillo), with a horizontal approach where education and communication…

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The digital movement that is enabling Indigenous people to show for themselves how the Amazon region is changing

A fast-growing digital movement means Indigenous people no longer rely on outsiders to speak for them.

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Science to perpetuate status quo

Science to perpetuate status quo

Lyotard warned several decades ago in his seminal work, The Postmodern Condition, about science’s lack of legitimation. At least, about the lack of a “beautiful” legitimation, as he noticed that instead of searching for the truth or trying to improve mankind’s living conditions, science is nowadays ruled by what he called the performativity principle. In brief, science must be lucrative,…

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Why we need media literacy?

Why we need media literacy?

Isolated individuals zigzag over system limits.

Isolated individual zigzags over system limits, and even if he doesn’t understand it because they were enculturated in competition values, he needs the others.

“You cannot fight alone without tiring yourself” (Story of a Stairway, Buero Vallejo).

Yeah! Long time ago, Buero wrote this awesome narration –I fervently recommend you- anticipating market…

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