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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Another chapter of #AI extracting and abusing the commons. Today is #zenodo 's turn, but before it has been #OpenStreetMap, #Wikipedia... This clearly shows that they are not looking for knowledge (knowledge was already there in the open) but about appropriating and fencing it.

A screenshot from Zenodo stating: "Zenodo is currently experiencing slowness and intermittent outages due to heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. We are aware of the problem, and our team is focused on stabilizing the service. Thank you for your patience."

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Right now, I was supposed to be talking about Gender in Digital Goods at the Digital Good Network at the University Of Sheffield, but instead, I am following @ucu 's call for an academic boycott. This has nothing to do with the organisers, and I'm sorry for […] [Original post on scholar.social]

A text stating: I would like to apologise for my last-minute absence in this talk and the issues this might pose to other speakers and the Digital Good Network team. I would have loved to join you today to share some insights from our research and to speak and learn about gender, inclusion, feminism and care, and why these topics matter, particularly in Digital Goods.

Last week, the University of Sheffield announced the latest in more that 45 restructures since the Vice-Chancelor descended. These measures include redundancies, cuts as well as double deductions for those taking part in strike actions. As a firm proponent of these values, I could not, in good conscience, stop but following UCU’s call for an academic boycott to any event organised by the University of Sheffield.

At this point I want to be clear about three things. First, this is a personal standpoint and not a moral judgement to those who have decided to act differently. Second, this has nothing to do with the Digital Good Network and their team, who have proved all these years how important these -and other- values are to them. I’m sorry to be creating a disruption to those who I care and I appreciate, but I hope this type of collective action will be beneficial in the long run.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Now that everyone is (rightly) concerned about the heatwave, it's a good time to remind about the environmental costs of training and using #AI and how these items are not at all independent. If we normalise AI, I'm afraid we will be normalising as well more […] [Original post on scholar.social]

A kids activity of connecting the dots that will display a sun. Overlayed there's the text "AI" in the starting point and "Climate change" at the end.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

Proud to hear @tunubesecamirio being mentioned at #mozfest main event! You guys are doing amazing

Mozilla main event, showing a huge stage with a keynote speaker a d lots of people attending

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

5. Terrain transformation We argue that not only the host is transformed as a consequence of the migration, but also the destination and the wider landscape. Neither #Twitter /X nor #Mastodon, not even the social media landscape, are no longer the same.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

4. Migration Probably the most obvious and difficult to define and measure: as a result of the previous ones, there is a movement of users from one site or platform to another. This can take many forms: technical actions, such as account setup or closure, content archiving...

Histogram of new Mastodon accounts (from 25 March 2022 to 13 February 2023) and key dates in the Twitter acquisition. The histogram shows spikes after each of Musk's key events

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

3. Collective platform consciousness Users become part of a collective that is distinct to their experience of ordinary site/platform use. They see themselves as connected to and affected by a larger event + as part of a shared responses.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

2. Critical Voice Users begin to express dismay, anger, frustration, sadness, shock and/or related emotions directed at the event and subsequent decline.

Tweets from US celebrities expressing their concerns.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

1. The X factor An event or factor that triggers the migration. The “most significant” thing.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Happy to share my last #academic paper, published on New Media & Society and authored with Nate Tkacz and Fangzhou Zhang about our #research on #twittermigration #Xodus Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink […] [Original post on scholar.social]

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Tomorrow, I'll be presenting at #STSItalia "Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate #OpenStreetMap’s #equity: The good, the bad and the neutral", the work I've been doing with @twm and Selene Yang, Alejandra Canclini and Silvia Ribera Alfaro […] [Original post on scholar.social]

An adaptation of the poster from the film "The Good, the bad and the Ugly", displaying the same characters, but changing the texts. The main title says "A Story about maps and equity: The Good, the Neutral and the Ugly" - STS Italia, Milano 2025. Featuring OpenStreetMap.

A talk by Carlos Cámara, with Timothy Monteadh, Selene Yang, Alejandra Canclini and Silvia Ribera Alfaro

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

If you're interested in #maps #cartography #equity #feminism or #dataviz #datavis , I'd kindly ask you to join the workshop Creating Inclusive Cartographies with #OpenStreetMap 📆 27th June 9:00 - 17:00 🗺️ University of Warwick +info […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Workshop poster displaying a map from W.E.B. Dubois and a text stating:

"Creating Inclusive cartographies with OpenStreetMap

27th June, University of Warwick"

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2025

About to start the @digitalgoodnet summit at BBC offices In salford. We'll be meeting other grantees and discussing how a digital good society is and can be achieved

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

OMG! 7 years already since I successfully defended my PhD! #anniversary

A picture of me and the first slide for my PhD viva. About to start my presentation

A picture of the panel (Dr. Hug March, Dr. Federico Demaria and Dr. Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago) and me.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

Oh, the #Irony of #OpenAI complaining about stealing intellectual property. To that, there is a Spanish proverb which would translate as, ‘They who robs a robber earns a hundred years' remission.’ Seen at : @ft.com www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4f… #AI #DeepSeek

Screenshot of Financial Times news with the title "OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

Much of what has been published about #deepseek is to flag how biased it is and how aligned with China's government their responses are about controversial topics. The same could be said about #chatptg #gemini #metaAI except it is easy to spot when the […] [Original post on scholar.social]

3 Spiderman clones pointing to each other. Each of them is labelled with ChatGPT, Copilot and DeepSeek, respectively. At the centre there's a text stating "LLM Blackbox"

At the top there's a question stating: "How can we recognise bias in #AI ...
...if there's no way to know how were they trained? ...if they reproduce our own biases?"

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