#datastudies — Public Fediverse posts

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

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

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

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

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

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

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 und Florian Hohmann 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

🔎 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

📦❓✨
"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

A new book on “Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City” includes chapters from researchers from our department.

Güneş Tavmen wrote a chapter on “Cybernetic Urbanism: Tracing the Development of the Responsibilized Subject and Self-Organizing Communities in Smart Cities”.

Jonathan Gray (@jwyg) co-wrote a piece with Noortje Marres (@NoortjeMarres) on “Articulating Urban Collectives with Data”.

Further details and links available here: https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/27/digital-injustice-in-the-smart-city/

#sts #smartcities #datacities #digitalcities #datajustice #datastudies #cybernetics #datainfrastructures #commodon #mediastudies

Do you research how data are repaired and cared for in everyday ways?

@Ch_Hogberg, @robkitchin and I would love for you to join us at Nordic STS in June. The deadline for abstract submissions is this Wednesday, March 1.

https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/nordic-sts/accepted-panels.html

#data #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #sts #mediastudies #digitalhumanities

Much good stuff on data centres and infrastructure, time, labour, waste, heat, energy, bunkers, cables, environments and colonialism in this NM&S special issue on "data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media":
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/25/2

#datastudies #infrastructurestudies #data #commodon #mediastudies #ecology #environment #colonialism #labour #work #time #temporality #newmedia

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

Join us in thinking about #Careful #DataStudies.

We want to explore whether and how shifting from critique to care opens new pathways for more generative engagements with the transforming roles, relations, practices & politics of data-driven automation.

https://bit.ly/40G0bUW

@irzakhar

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

Hi all!

We invite you to submit an abstract to our open panel "Caring and Repairing Data Lives", at The Nordic STS conference 2023, Oslo, June 7-9. I am organizing it together with @jmnw .

We invite a range of theoretical, empirical and stylistic approaches that explore how we can use concepts of care, repair, maintenance and infrastructure to surface these all-too-often submerged social processes and entanglements of data lives.

For more info:
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/nordic-sts/accepted-panels.html

#STS #datastudies #AI

in case useful for anyone teaching or learning data journalism this semester, here are some resources and links that we share with our students at @kingsdh:

https://jwyg.github.io/awesome-data-journalism/

#datapractices #datajournalism #ddj #datastudies #criticaldatapractice #criticaldatastudies #journalism #journodon #commodon

Is there anyone out there who has attended the DataScience Week and can tell me their opinion about the event? Thank you!

#datastudies #datapractices #datascience

Research data repositories have worked to ensure data quality for decades. They are important infrastructures that enable data sharing and reuse - but what do they mean by "data quality assurance", and what practices have they adopted?

My colleague @Maxi and I from the project re3data COREF have just published the first systematic study on the topic, based on a survey among repository operators.
http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-018

#infrastructureStudies #dataStudies #openScience

Some key findings:

my work explores the role of data in reproducing social inequalities, especially now that we use AI. I have also studied the use of digital technologies in citizen science.

more at: https://marisaponti.org/

tag heap: #datapractices #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #participatorydesign #scienceandtechnologystudies #AIforsocialgood #Citizengenerateddata #collectiveintelligence

my work explores the role of data in reproducing social inequalities, especially now that we use AI. I have also studied the use of digital technologies in citizen science.

more at: https://marisaponti.org/

tag heap: #datapractices #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #participatorydesign #scienceandtechnologystudies #AIforsocialgood #Citizengenerateddata #collectiveintelligence