Carmen Maria
@carmenmaria
researcher/designer/sociologist
Carmen Maria
- DePIN uses cryptocurrency rewards to incentivize participation in physical infrastructure networks, enabling them to be built from the “ground up” rather than the top down
from What is DePIN? Bringing Physical Infrastructure to Blockchain - Decrypt
DePIN
- “We are in uncharted territory” when it comes to Tinder et al., says Justin Garcia, a research scientist at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. “There have been two major transitions” in heterosexual mating “in the last four million years,” he says. “The first was around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, i... See more
from Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse by Nancy Jo Sales
A new era of romanticism, love, and intimacy - uncharted territory, prompted by the collision of hookup culture and dating apps.
- Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with dating apps, which have acted like a wayward meteor on the now dinosaur-like rituals of courtship.
from Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse by Nancy Jo Sales
History of hookups?
- Even our bodies get into the act in cyberspace. Much as we might dearly love to sometimes, we can’t leave ourselves behind when we get online. Even when someone is just playing around or in disguise, something true is revealed, it is never completely invented. [...] What is it about cyberspace? It conceals what gets in the way of revealing. No one’... See more
from Cyberfeminism Index
We can never realllly detach from our identities, even behind the veil of a computer screen.
- Popular media often characterize youths’ use of social media as overwhelmingly negative, reporting that teens engage in reckless, unsafe behaviors with little thought to their online privacy or safety. Typically, these popular media accounts are based on adults’ prescriptive views of youths’ attitudes and behaviors.
from Just a moment...
surveillance and data privacy education
“Don’t be dumb — that’s the rule I try to live by.”
- The concept of reflexivity needs a little more explication. It applies exclusively to situations that have thinking participants. The participants’ thinking serves two functions. One is to understand the world in which we live; I call this the cognitive function. The other is to change the situation to our advantage. I call this the participating o... See more
from Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity
Reflexivity
- I can state the core idea in two relatively simple propositions. One is that in situations that have thinking participants, the participants’ view of the world is always partial and distorted. That is the principle of fallibility. The other is that these distorted views can influence the situation to which they relate because false views lead to in... See more
from Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity
Reflexivity
- Living with false identity turned out to be an exhilarating experience for me too. We were in mortal danger. People perished all around us, but we managed not only to survive but to help other people.
from Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity
false identity as a mode of safety