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[researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Berlin journalist @farangiesg.bsky.social writing on Palantir’s models & ICE, interviewed me about my work on the Deep Border & @erc.europa.eu research on machine learning worlds. Her article captures the violent spatial form of algorithmic targeting.
🚨Publication alert🚨
My latest article is now out in IPS. The paper analyzes how the EU tries to make its internal security databases more trustworthy. I argue that “trust in data” is not natural or automatic but something that is actively built through political priorities and technical practices.
So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop!
Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).
🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...
🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...
#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives
how should we understand and hold these systems to account?>> ai war cloud database @sarahciston.com
aiwar.cloud
We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...
[register] >> appraisal + [social science of databases. building metaphysical machines] >> 𖡡 edinburgh
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...
A third post in the @bordercrim.bsky.social themed series on methodology & detention by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Heimstra on using Freedom of Information requests in their forthcoming (excellent) book about privatisation of these places in the US: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
[21.05] Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab --> Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 @ Kunsthalle Wien
kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...
looking forward!
"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving" Human rights investigators are increasingly using open-source, user-generated content scraped from online platforms as crucial digital evidence for human rights advocacy, accountability and analysis (witness accounts, footage of protests and state violence, etc.). This workshop will explore the intersection between the good-faith documentation of sensitive data on human rights violations and data protection and privacy standards. We aim to collaboratively answer the following questions: 1) What data protection standards should apply to gathering and processing such content and how? 2) How can data protection and privacy regulation negatively impact or impede digital evidence gathering and processing? 3) How can sensitive content be archived in challenging political contexts with restricted right to privacy and sophisticated surveillance? The workshop will provide the audience with a short brief on the topic, followed by an interactive exercise simulating both sides of the argument and a guided discussion to share and summarize findings. Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with Cameran Ashraf
"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving"
Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social
More information: cpdp.be/31038
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop
CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...
<transparency promises are wrapped> into an assisted gaming service and sold as a premium feature
---> Critical Art vs. Prank Politics [08.04-online] w/ Dani Ploeger, Florian Weigl, @aramba.bsky.social, Francis Hunger, Nóra Ó Murchú + Hito Steyerl --> v2.nl/events/criti...
What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial technology?
Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl
“desiloization” is (always) a power play 🤓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Six years, with colleagues at @privacyint.bsky.social, we fought against this - sounds like it might need to be done again.
Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...
Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics
Latin American critical data studies by Rafael Grohmann in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
london [exhib/events] -->'combinatorial narrative machine' + tarot - origins + afterlives 👽 @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/calvi...
ty @alexfanta.bsky.social, @investigate-eu.bsky.social @euobserver.com , 'Concerning the internally published MyIntracomm message, the Secretariat-General would like to clarify that it is not a ‘document’ for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001' <--?--> 3(a) 🙃 www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
📂 So grateful that we got to keep the Derrida quote in the editing process! Even if Dr. Dave from the Bay Area thinks he's a gaslighter
Next session of the "Digital Materialities" seminar!
The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities.
Info and registration ⤵️
Just released v0.48.0 of xan, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social CSV wrangling command!
Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes!
github.com/medialab/xan...
You can see Airwars' short film, The Killings They Tweeted, here:
idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org
new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb...
#digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net
Cover of Decentralizing Knowledges edited by Leandro Rodriguez Medina and Sandra Harding. The cover features a photograph of an art installation by Sarah Sze. Sze's large sculpture is made of steel bars that form a vast, open framework in the shape of a sphere. Attached to the framework are images of a New York sky (printed on metal) that resemble torn pieces of paper.
"Decentralizing Knowledges," edited by Leandro Rodriguez Medina & Sandra Harding, argues that epistemic decentralizing should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices that make such decentering possible. #PostcolonialTheory
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