Social Medialab: Technology and ideology in socio-community intervention projects at the university level

Abstract

The emergence of social media laboratories, as spaces for experimentation and collaborative production, opens the discussion about the way in which we approach social complexity, especially when dealing with technology and its relationship with ideology. In this text we seek to discuss its possibilities as a practice to rethink the university as an institution linked to socio-community intervention. We consider a deeper dialogue necessary with initiatives related to citizen participation, closer to social movements than to academic culture. We reflect on the possibilities of incorporating the culture of the media laboratory as an opportunity for social and institutional transformation.