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Arthur Coelho Bezerra

Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (IBICT) and professor of the Graduate Program in Information Science at IBICT/UFRJ.

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Generational divide: The gamification of hate and the growing gender gap among youth

While social networks are presented as territories of freedom and youth authenticity, platforms such as Discord, TikTok and Reddit have been transformed into factories of identity crossed by polarization and hate.

The Unsustainable Lightness of the Cloud

China's ability to create low-cost solutions in the field of digital technology helps put pressure on current market leaders to seek technological solutions that are less harmful to the environment.

Rotting brains like Meta

With less content moderation, Mark Zuckerberg's social network users can expect more brain rot.

Misery of Information

It is important to avoid superficial instrumentalism that promotes technological innovations in the digital era and instead focus on the political and economic factors shaping the dominant mode of information production.

Digital gangsters

Hate speech generates engagement, a phenomenon that can be measured by the interaction of network users, and produces information that increases the big data of huge platforms.

The Internet Blackout Day

The global network blackout on January 18, 2012, was a political act driven by thousands of digital platforms, not a technical problem.