Carmen Maria
@carmenmaria
researcher/designer/sociologist
Carmen Maria
Building the culture we want requires a radical change in mindset, and action. The dream of a free and open Internet isn't dead—but in 2025, it's definitely more complicated.
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
Post-Naive Internet - Mozilla & Unlearning
I want to understand how researchers and designers describe the changing human experience in a world shaped by AI, especially through small, intentional, or “cozy” digital spaces.
ChatGPT
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... See more
Cyberfeminism Index
We can never realllly detach from our identities, even behind the veil of a computer screen.
Future Shock at 40: What the Tofflers Got Right (and Wrong)
fastcompany.com
surveillance and data privacy education
Future Shock critique
The European handbook for teaching privacy and data protection at schools
biblio.ugent.be
Youth, media practices, and privacy: Working with high school teachers to co-create curriculum for better awareness and practice
Giuliana Cucinellilearntechlib.org
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.
Just a moment...
surveillance and data privacy education
“Don’t be dumb — that’s the rule I try to live by.”
Social media fandom: The construction of identity in the cases of “The 100” and “Once Upon A Time” Tumblr communities
ieeexplore.ieee.org
social construction of identity in tumblr fandom communities