Carmen Maria
@carmenmaria
researcher/designer/sociologist
Carmen Maria
surveillance and data privacy education
IP <> Human Rights
Teaching Privacy
teachingprivacy.org
surveillance and data privacy education
Information and education on online privacy and preventative measures to protect and make better decisions regarding your data online
Youth, media practices, and privacy: Working with high school teachers to co-create curriculum for better awareness and practice
Giuliana Cucinellilearntechlib.org
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.
Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity
false identity as a mode of safety
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
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
What is DePIN? Bringing Physical Infrastructure to Blockchain - Decrypt
DePIN
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
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.
“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,... See more
Nancy Jo Sales • Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse
A new era of romanticism, love, and intimacy - uncharted territory, prompted by the collision of hookup culture and dating apps.