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Eden Medina

@edenmedina.bsky.social
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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.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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/...
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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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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
✨New article✨in @tapuya.org👇
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/12/2024
📌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
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
✨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....
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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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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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.
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Joke courtesy of Guy Fedorkow of the MIT Museum: How do you display software?
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
✨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.
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
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
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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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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
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
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
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!
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
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!
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
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
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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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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
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.
Poster for the talk "Technology, Design, and Memory" in Chile: The History of Project Cybersyn. The talk will discuss the recent exhibition "How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design" and the first full-scale, functional reconstruction of the cybernetic operations room from Project Cybersyn. This talk will share the history of the project, how interpretations of its history have changed over time, and how the reconstruction of the room has furthered historical understandings of the project and its context. It will also discuss the process of reconstructing the operations room for public display, how the history forms part of a larger story of Chile bringing together design, democracy, and socialism, and how these stories of design are shaping public memory. The poster includes the time, date, and location of the event; individual images of the three speakers; and a photo of them sitting together in the operations room reconstruction.
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
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-...
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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
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...
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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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