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24THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON CULTURAL CREATIONMariana Moura Santos · @marysaintsFounder of Chicas Poderosas, a digital teaching community designed to familiarise female journalists with newsroom technology. Director of interactive and animation at Fusion. She recently completed a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford in 2015 and as a Knight International Journalism Fellow in 2013–14 she worked in leading newsrooms of Latin America and with independent journalists. Mariana Santos is a visual storyteller who did ground-breaking workas a member of the interactive team at The Guardian in London. A trained animator, she pioneered the newsroom’s use of motion graphics to make data stories more compelling. She runs workshops on design thought to encourage a multidisciplinary approach to storytelling and leads the transformation of communities by equipping them with digital skills.THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON CULTURAL CREATION · MARIANA MOURA SANTOSSmart Culture: Impact of the Internet on Artistic Creation