Virtual Colloquium: Gilberto Vieira – Data Activism for New Commons in Latin America

In this week’s session of the Virtual Colloquium we will have Gilberto Vieira as our guests, his talk is titled “Data Activism for New Commons in Latin America”

Data Activism for New Commons in Latin America

We will talk about the centrality of data and the symbolic transformation of urban peripheries and favelas in the Global South, especially in Latin America. We are trying to understand how the use of data science influenced a movement of thecnopolitical repositioning of populations stigmatized by poverty in so-called subaltern urbanism. 

Gilberto Vieira is a PhD student in Urban Studies at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná – Brazil and has been researching the centrality of urban Latin America peripheries in the era of data coloniality. He is part of Jararaca (jararaca.org), a research group in urban technopolitics. Gilberto is also co-funder of data_labe (datalabe.org), a data journalism lab in Rio de Janeiro run by young favela’s residents who work by generating, searching, analyzing and visualizing data on gender, race, education, territory and digital rights. In Weizenbaum, Gilberto is a Visiting Researcher in the Diversity and New Commons research group.

For the speakers list of this semester and for information on registration, please have a look here.