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"content": "<p>Thanks to everyone reading me recently (or at all)! <br />I'm a former <a href=\"https://mastodon.mit.edu/tags/nonprofit\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> tech worker from Mexico, current sociotechnical scholar at MIT (<a href=\"https://mastodon.mit.edu/tags/STS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>STS</span></a> or Science, Technology, and Society -- or Science and Technology Studies!). I study media and IT, especially as they contribute to public interest and social change. </p><p>My current work: What does it entail to challenge <a href=\"https://mastodon.mit.edu/tags/surveillance\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>surveillance</span></a> in a place where <a href=\"https://mastodon.mit.edu/tags/privacy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>privacy</span></a> is not to be expected? Some of my ethnographic fieldwork notes from MX <a href=\"https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">blog.castac.org/2024/08/challe</span><span class=\"invisible\">nging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/</span></a></p>",
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