Eden Medina

My pleasure! So nice to see you and share the exhibition with you.

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 ...

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👇

📌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

Correction: Tapuya publishes thematic clusters, not special issues. It's a ✨New Thematic Cluster✨

Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford, Katie Ulrich, Kregg Hetherington, Pablo Gómez, Rosana Castro, and Vivette García-Deister. The full TOC is available here: sites.usc.edu/futureoffact...

It includes work by Alex Nading, Andrea Ballestero, Diana Bocarejo, Eden Medina, Eduardo Romero Dianderas, Emily Maguire, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Ignacio Siles, Edgar Gómez-Cruz, and Rodrigo Muñoz-González ...

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)

✨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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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?

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✨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.

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...

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

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!

Thank you for this great summary of the first bilingual SHOT opening plenary!

Crossing Fronteras Listen to Crossing Fronteras on Spotify. This podcast series surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working i...

Other episodes feature conversations with Javier Puente, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Aarti Smith Madan, Carmen Jarrín, Ginetta Candelario, Carlos Odria, Ramón Rivera-Moret, and Koichi Hagimoto. The complete podcast series is here: open.spotify.com/show/7uR6xBI...

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 ...

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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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.

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.

The room has manual mode and ambient mode. It must have been in ambient mode when you visited if the screens changed automatically. In manual mode you can push the buttons and change the screens. We used the original circuit diagrams from the 1970s to figure out how the interface worked!

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-...

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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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...