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Manuel Portela

Manuel Portela

Ethics in AI is worthless without action

Last week I went to Lyon (France) to teach at the EM Lyon Business School. The course we created with David Solans about Discrimination and…

Apr 25, 2022

Ethics in AI is worthless without action

Apr 25, 2022

Manuel Portela

Science, Participation and Policy

It has been a while that I’m interested in promoting civic participation into public policy, or, what was called lately Social Innovation…

Jan 27, 2019

Science, Participation and Policy

Jan 27, 2019

Manuel Portela

How do we measure empathy?

I’ve focused my research on a definition of empathy that means an ongoing reality of ‘becoming together’. Although, empathies have many…

Dec 12, 2018

How do we measure empathy?

Dec 12, 2018

Manuel Portela

Empathic Methods: Using inventive social science and research-creation for designing new…

I have released a series of articles regarding Empathy (here, here and here), its importance, and the misreadings that led to its…

Nov 11, 2018

Empathic Methods: Using inventive social science and research-creation for designing new…

Nov 11, 2018

Manuel Portela

Towards a new definition of Empathy

This is my third post about my research on geographies of empathy during my PhD. You can find how I problematized empathy, and how we can…

Nov 5, 2018

Nov 5, 2018

Manuel Portela

Between Care and Concern

In my previous article, I explained how empathy was taken from many disciplines, causing the term to become abandoned for the misreadings…

Oct 22, 2018

Oct 22, 2018

Manuel Portela

Problematizing Empathy

Now that my PhD is coming to an end it is a good opportunity to briefly define some concepts and publish parts of my thesis. I will start…

Sep 14, 2018

Sep 14, 2018

Manuel Portela

From a mediated to a filtered physical future

After moving to Spain, more than two years again I found that I was losing my sight. Even if my Ph.D. life is not helping me on that, the…

Nov 21, 2017

From a mediated to a filtered physical future

Nov 21, 2017

Manuel Portela

Hi Computer Scientists, let’s talk about reality in Cities

If you are an engineer, statistician, computer scientist or working in a related field and trying to get into the digital, urban or smart…

Nov 9, 2017

Hi Computer Scientists, let’s talk about reality in Cities

Nov 9, 2017

Manuel Portela

Embracing the Non-representational Theories in a computerized world — Part 1

I’m in my 20th month of my 3-year PhD program. I’ve read more than 800 articles and books since I started my Master back in 2013. And I’m…

May 24, 2017

May 24, 2017

Manuel Portela

Manuel Portela

HCI, STS, Urban Studies or something in between. @geoC_EU PhD Candidate at @geotecUJI. Sarcastic, Skeptic, almost an idiot. From Buenos Aires, living abroad.

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