Eden Medina
@edenmedina.bsky.social
Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
Reposted by Eden Medina
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
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Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America
This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a ...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
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✨New article✨in @tapuya.org👇
@edenmedina.bsky.social delves into Chile’s Patio 29 forensic misidentification case and exposes how dictatorship-era ignorance distorted scientific truths, leaving lasting scars on human rights facts even in post-authoritarian Chile. 🧬⚖️
Read at: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2370694 @tapuya.org
Read at: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2370694 @tapuya.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
✨New article✨in @tapuya.org👇
Reposted by Eden Medina
📌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
"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
December 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
📌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
"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
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Los hechos nunca andan solos: The future of facts in Latin America
Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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December 11, 2024 at 4:21 AM
✨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....
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.
📢Exciting News!
Tapuya is now on Bluesky! Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.📦
Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together! go.bsky.app/JxBWBbS
🚀 #Bluesky #LatinAmericanSTS
Tapuya is now on Bluesky! Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.📦
Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together! go.bsky.app/JxBWBbS
🚀 #Bluesky #LatinAmericanSTS
November 25, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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?
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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.
Also, I guess this is where I plug my work, so if you're into history of technology and/or Latin American history, you may be interested in this recent article (co-authored w/ @pr-c.bsky.social & @edenmedina.bsky.social ) where we review literature from the last decade. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Seeds, Dams, and Khipus: Latin America's Eclectic Recent History of Technology
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November 14, 2024 at 11:18 PM
✨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
People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement · From Novel Chemicals to Opera
Successful integration of generative AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust bet...
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September 23, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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
September 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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!
September 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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!
¡Buenas noches desde Viña del Mar! I’m joining you from a lecture hall on the campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez for the #SHOT2024 plenary.
This is a bilingual session, and conference participants are all wearing headsets that provide live translation from Spanish to English (or vice-versa).
This is a bilingual session, and conference participants are all wearing headsets that provide live translation from Spanish to English (or vice-versa).
July 10, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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."
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Eden Medina on the role of science and technology in Chile’s political history
Listen to this episode from Crossing Fronteras on Spotify. Eden Medina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), an historian of science and technology, addresses relationships between technology and ...
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April 25, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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
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.
February 28, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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-...
October 26, 2023 at 2:41 AM
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...
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...
Designing a revolution
MIT associate professor Eden Medina is co-curating a museum exhibition, “How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design." The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 ...
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October 21, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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...
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...