Academia – Magdalena Day

Algorithmic culture and Technical Philosophy-Tribute to Sebastián Touza

Post author:Magdalena Day

On May 24th, a series of events will take place in memory of our friend Sebastián Touza, organized by the Direction of Communications of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, the Library of the National University of Cuyo, the program of Informatics and Society, which Sebastián led and which is now under Ariel Benasayag’s work The event is called Algorithmic culture and Technical Philosophy-Tribute to Sebastián Touza Also, his family will donate his personal library

Preprinst and science publishing

Post author:Magdalena Day

Preprints were first used in natural and exact sciences, but they have reached humanities and social sciences in the last years (that is the case with Socarxiv). One of the reasons for the acceleration of this trend is how much time the peer review process takes, to have a paper finally published in a journal Some of them, such as Arxiv, Biorxiv, and Socarxiv receive funding from universities, and even charities, in a move that intends to make science open and accessible

The uberization of academic work

Post author:Magdalena Day

The logic of the platforms economy extends to academic work and education, and it shows how precarity and uncertainty are characteristic of creative skills The academic, as the entrepreneur, also needs to make his own path, build something, get funding, and create a trajectory outside institutions