New #openaccess book on "Dialogues in Data Power" edited by @juliane and @J0bates 🎊

I contributed to a chapter on “In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventions”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/17/invisibilities-data-studies

#datastudies #criticaldatastudies

Glad to be part of new #openaccess book on "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society" edited by @gastev @kfvanes @TraceyPLauriault on @AmsterdamUPress.

Here's my chapter on “Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/11/speculative-data-infrastructures

#mediastudies #taxjustice #taxavoidance #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #teaching #commodon #sts #newmedia #internetstudies

Hi everyone 👋🏻 --- I’m co-organising a hybrid talk series on Sound & AI in the Cultural Industries over the coming months at UvA. All are welcome to join us online.

More info and rsvp link here: https://www.rmes.nl/lecture-series-sound-ai-in-cultural-industries/

#AIVoice #PlatformStudies #PodcastStudies #DataStudies

Sharing special issue love: We invite contributions to discuss the mediation of knowledge practices and planetary matter through data infrastructures.

https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/689

#datastudies #mediastudies #sts

“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231224157

@sts #sts #tech #mediastudies #datastudies #datacenter

A new paper on AI incidents and 'networked trouble' from our PhD researcher Tommy Shane: https://kingsdh.net/2023/12/20/ai-incidents-networked-trouble/

#ai #artificialintelligence #aitrouble #algorithms #algorithmstudies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #digitalmethods #trouble #feministsts #sts #mediastudies #commodon

Hi all, my re #introduction —
I’m a critical #datastudies and #mediastudies scholar who focuses on #datacenters #cloud #infrastructure and #datastorage. I’m an Associate Professor of Film and Media, starting a new job at Queen’s Univeristy (Kingston, ON, Canada) in Jan 2024. I’ll continue to direct the Environmental Media Lab.
Very gay and very pro-masking and -taking care of each other. Hi! 💘

new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp

we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out 👀 https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/

#criticaltechnicalpractice
#internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivemethods #feministsts #newmedia #commodon #sts

In this new paper on data journeys, the authors draw on the concept of domestication to show how data are made usable at sites of reuse:
https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231212506

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two sites of biomedical research, the authors identify four dimensions to data domestication: storytelling, standardization, formatting and cultivation.
The study stresses the importance of local settings for data work, even in a global data economy.

#STS #datastudies

Exciting news: The fifth and (again hybrid) Data Power Conference will take place from 4th to 6th September 2024 - in Bangalore (India), Graz (Austria) and online.

Conference theme: Situating Data Practices Beyond Data Universalism
Deadline CfP: 19th January 2024

Find out more (also about previous conferences) here: https://datapowerconference.org/

#datastudies #conference #cfp

@J0bates

Monday blues hit hardest after a wonderful weekend. On the other hand, nothing makes Monday fly faster than a technical go live!

#dataintegration #datapipeline #automation #bi #datastudies

Lindsay Poirier’s work is always great, as I expect this to be: “Reading Datasets: Strategies for Interpreting the Politics of Data Signification,” in Big Data & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211029322

#DataStudies #Datasets

#introduction

I’m an academic at the University of Sheffield #iSchool researching the social and cultural dynamics shaping data journeys and practices.

Currently working on:
-Patterns in Practice - an AHRC project I’m leading: https://lifeofdata.org/site/patterns-in-practice
-An edited book ‘Dialogues in Data Power’ with @juliane emerging from Data Power Conf 2022
-Planning for Data Power 5 in 2024-watch this space!

More at: https://lifeofdata.org

#criticaldatastudies #datastudies #sts #informationstudies

Jetzt bewerben: MA Cultural Data Studies:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/mcdci/aktuelles/nachrichten/jetzt-bewerben-ma-cultural-data-studies #DH #MCDCI #DataStudies

🔎 Methodenpanel: In-Situ-Self-Report-Datenerhebung

@Andreas_Hepp , @hohse und Alessandro Belli im Rahmen eines Methodenpanel über In-Situ-Self-Report-Datenerhebung und über Erfahrungen, Probleme und Lösungen in der Praxis der Nutzungsforschung.

Live auf der #DGPuK23 am #ZeMKI auf dem Campus der @unibremen.

#Mediastudies #University #DigitalMedia #KI #artificialintelligence #Datastudies #InSituData

https://www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/detailansicht/dgpuk-2023-am-zemki

🪑 Widerstände in der automatisierten Kommunikation

#ZeMKI Mitglied Christian Schwarzenegger in dem Panel zu Widerständen in der automatisierten Kommunikation.

Live von der #DGPuK23 am #ZeMKI auf dem Campus der @unibremen.

#Mediastudies #University #DigitalMedia #KI #artificialintelligence #Datastudies

https://www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/detailansicht/dgpuk-2023-am-zemki

🔎 Methodenpanel: In-Situ-Self-Report-Datenerhebung

Im Rahmen eines #Methodenpanel sprechen @Andreas_Hepp und Florian Hohmann über In-Situ-Self-Report- Datenerhebung und über Erfahrungen, Probleme und Lösungen in der Praxis der Nutzungsforschung.

14:00-15:30 Live auf der #DGPuK23 am #ZeMKI auf dem Campus der @unibremen .

#Mediastudies #University #DigitalMedia #KI #artificialintelligence #Datastudies

https://www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/detailansicht/dgpuk-2023-am-zemki

“They are after-images, burnt into screens and retinas long after their source has been erased. They perform a psychoanalysis without either psyche or analysis for an age of automation in which production is augmented by wholesale fabrication. Mean images are social dreams without sleep, processing society’s irrational functions to their logical conclusions. They are documentary expressions of society’s views of itself, seized through the chaotic capture and large-scale kidnapping of data. And they rely on vast infrastructures of polluting hardware and menial and disenfranchised labour, exploiting political conflict as a resource.”

Hito Steyerl @hito on “mean images” in New Left Review: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images

#machinelearning #chatgpt #algorithmstudies #visualculture #artificialintelligence #ai #datastudies #datasets

Next week back at Sciences Po, Paris with @lbngr for a talk on "repurposing digital media for collective inquiry", reflecting on 6 years of projects and activities with the @publicdatalab: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/24/medialab-talk

It will be first time back since Bruno Latour died last year, which is still sinking in (gathering pieces here: https://www.are.na/jonathan-gray/remembering-bruno ... )

#STS #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #paris #digitalmethods #participatoryresearch #collectiveinquiry #newmediastudies #newmedia #commodon #scienceandtechnologystudies #ecology #criticalzones

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"data not found", “a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world”: https://datanotfound.jwyg.org

created as part of research for “What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of online devices for making data public”: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/30/data-portals

#datastudies #opendata #datainfrastructures #sts #infrastructurestudies #newmediastudies #commondon #softwarestudies #interfacestudies @sts @publicdatalab