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// Territories of Exception: Violation of rights and the use of police helicopters in Rio de Janeiro

19 de August de 2021

Territories of Exception Violation of rights and the use of police helicopters in Rio de Janeiro. ABSTRACT: Investigation about the violation of rights in the use of police helicopters as a shooting platform in Rio de Janeiro, encompassing the years between 2018 and 2019. Using science and data visualisation, previously unseen government information, social media data, field investigation and forensic…

// Algorithmic mediation in digital platforms: rationality, subjectivity and conduct

ABSTRACT: This project investigates the algorithmic mediation of experience in digital applications and platforms with the goal of understanding their rationality regimes, as well as their effects on subjectivity and conduct. To this end, it aims to explore three complementary axes. The theoretical-conceptual axis will carry out a review of the notions of mediation and agency in the field of…