Alejandra Espinosa

Contributions by Alejandra Espinosa

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The Power of Virtual Realities: Dissociating from Reality and Embracing New Existences

Should we allow the post-human allow the post-human to inhabit virtual realities? In these spaces we embrace anxieties of the collective consciousness. We connect with technologies through our thoughts. We fall for a reality that on all fronts is converged by digitalization. We crumble in front of meanings we cannot seize. We surrender. We surrender, like a spell, to what virtual realities portray.

CommunitiesTrends

How our Online Identity Is at Odds with Censorship: the Problem of Being “Potentially Inappropriate”

Looking for information regarding online censorship will show results dating from 2011 to this day. It’s been more than a decade since information is not simply being moderated but communities are being silenced, if not erased, and they have reacted to this by self-censoring their images and enacting ways of talking about the issue without mentioning it — by using encoded words such as "nip nops" and "unalive."

Alejandra Espinosa

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