Professor Thomas Poell durante a palestra "“Inteligência artificial, plataformização e produção cultural”. Foto: Analice Paron.

Networked Platforms: an Interview with Thomas Poell on Platformization, Artificial Intelligence, and Connection Technologies

On the morning of October 20, 2025, with support from the Department of Scientific and Technological Policy at the Institute of Geosciences/Unicamp, GEICT hosted professors Thomas Poell and David Nieborg for the lecture “Artificial Intelligence, Platformization, and Cultural Production.” Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the Leia mais

Down the Rabbit Hole of AI: Data Centers and the Material Impacts of the ‘Cloud’ – An interview with Tamara Kneese

The common approach of framing AI’s environmental cost as a matter of individual consumerism is a political and material misdirection. Calculating the water wasted per ChatGPT query, for instance, shifts responsibility from corporations to users, obscuring the true scale of the problem. The reality is that individual use, however large Leia mais