@koebenhavns_uni
. PI of "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" (ERC Stg, 2023-2028).
#ceasefirenow
1) Helene Ratner and I are thrilled to see our article out in AI & SOCIETY. It is the product of several years of explorations of, and conversations on, what the ethico-political implications are of turning historic data into resources for welfare
#AI
(OA )
I am immensely grateful to be among this year' recipients of an ERC Starting Grant. My project is titled: “Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies” (DALOSS) - 1/7
@ERC_Research
#ERCStG
@CBScph
More than 3,000 ambitious young researchers entered the 2022 competition for ERC Starting Grants.
🎊 Congratulations to the 408 who were selected for 🇪🇺
#EUfunded
support this time!
Maybe you know one? List ➡️
#ECR
#PhDLife
#PhDChat
#AcademicChatter
✨Very happy to be able to share my new article titled "The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains" which is out in
@MCSjournal
open access
#datasets
#MachineLearning
#aireuse
📢Announcing PhD and postdoc positions for my new
@ERC_Research
project "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" (2023-3028)
@koebenhavns_uni
. Deadline Oct 15.✨
Phd:
Postdoc(s):
✨I have a guest essay in the
@nytimes
!! It was a delightfully challenge to turn the basic puzzle of my new
@ERC_Research
project, "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies"
@koebenhavns_uni
into a guest essay in
@nytopinion
Data loss is ubiquitous in a digital society. To curtail it, regulatory regimes and preservation practices need to be aligned with the digital world as it exists today, writes
@NThylstrup
.
I think this might be a career high: having the books I’ve authored and co-authored bought and scanned by
@internetarchive
! In awe of all the - highly diverse - labour that goes into making books (truly) available online - thank you ☺️✨cc
@mitpress
@SternbergPress
✨Summer news: I am now at
@koebenhavns_uni
. I will miss my wonderful colleagues at CBS, but will maintain close collaborative ties with them. And I am excited to start a new chapter with all the brilliant and committed people at University of Copenhagen✨
ICYMI: I am hiring a PhD and 1-2 postdocs on the
@ERC_Research
project titled "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" based at
@UCPH_Research
- deadline October 15! 👇
Christmas comes early this year✨! So happy to see our (
@AmooreLouise
,
@BondoHansen
,
@flyverbom
and me) new article, Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements, out in
@BigDataSoc
1/6
Streaming services are changing the conditions of our cultural record through new patterns and logics of removal. No more “long tail”.
This is one of the issues I describe in my
@nytimes
guest essay .
Data loss is ubiquitous in a digital society. To curtail it, regulatory regimes and preservation practices need to be aligned with the digital world as it exists today, writes
@NThylstrup
.
My department
@CBScph
has an open PhD position in Technology, Organisation and Society. The call is open and the community is great (incl
@BondoHansen
@JulieUldam
@flyverbom
). Please get in touch and/or distribute to others. Deadline: 15 March 2022.
I am very excited and grateful to be able to welcome Fred Turner
@fturner
(
@Stanford
) at the University of Copenhagen
@UCPH_Research
today for his talk "Whatever happened to our cybernetic utopia?" Please join us if you have time!
Destroying these originals is a seriously bad idea. Digitization expends one form of access but destruction of originals would end another form. The cost of storage of originals, & the cost of digital access should be regarded as part of the infrastructure of an open society.
✨Honoured to be part of this brilliant programme to celebrate the opening of the Center for Critical Data Practices led by
@Agos_Daniella
and
@magdatyzc
. Can't wait to hear the talks by
@ofricnaani
,
@Nisa00
, Mahmoud Ismail, Sophie Kloos, Nanna Dahler and Nicolas Malevé ✨
Whoever claimed that the "internet is forever" didn't have to go back to the internet of 2009 for a research project only to find that 75% of the links go nowhere now.
✨I'm incredibly honoured to be speaking alongside
#AnneMarieMol
at the 2024 Danish
#STS
Annual Conference held at
@DTUtweet
. The theme of the conference is "Elegies of waste, surplus, and excess" and I hope to see many of you there! ✨
Science & Technology Studies scholars near and far 📣the call for participation in the Danish
#STS
Annual Meeting is out. This time we will be
@DTUtweet
Keynotes by
@NThylstrup
and
#AnnemarieMol
We, the organising committee, look forward to seeing you.
Grateful and in awe of
@ranjodhd
's panoramic, incisive and inspiring review that considers not only Your Computer is on Fire, Techno-Precarious and Uncertain Archives as singular books but also what these volumes collectively suggest for broader patterns of technology critique.
3. "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (
@MITPress
), edited by
@NThylstrup
, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Kristin Veel. It has contributions by 70+ scholars and makers. Look at this table of contents: .
1) I am *in awe* of scholars who can both conduct amazing research AND provide outlets for other researchers. One example is the brilliant
@anne_kaun
and Staffan Ericson's podcast
@MPodden
. I was so grateful for the invitation to discuss my
@ERC_Research
project Data Loss (in UK
Avsnitt 23 av
@MPodden
ute! De talar om förlorad data med Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Köpenhamns universitet, samt läser Jacques Derrida, om arkivfeber. Nanna tänker på Laurie Anderson.
Delighted to be on the program committee of this conference!
It would be wonderful to see contributions from
#criticaldatastudies
,
#platformstudies
, media archaeology, software studies, and feminist, post- and decolonial approaches to archives in the mix!
Deadline: May 15✨
✨Call for abstracts✨! Public Seminar and PhD Course at
@UCPH_Research
: "The ends of data: theories, methods, and interventions in critical data and ML studies." Keynotes from: Professor Mary Ebeling (Drexel University) and Professor Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna). Link👇
1) Helene Ratner and I have a new article out in AI & SOCIETY! In the article, we explore how ML techniques in welfare systems transforms historic national data into resources for ML, and how these processes give rise to new data afterlives for citizen data
@ERC_Research
I am happy to share new research on service work in academia.
@jarvinen_mj
and I show that women over-perform service tasks, which could harm their career. In contrast, men negotiate and excel in avoiding these tasks. Service work are undervalued on CVs
Looking very much forward to hosting Matthew Archer's (
@matthewarcher5
) forthcoming talk "Metrics and Markets: Data, Dataism and Neoliberal Sustainability" on April 5, 2-3.30pm
@UCPH_Research
as part of the AIREUSE/
#DALOSS
Critical Data & AI Lecture Series
I am immensely grateful to be among this year' recipients of an ERC Starting Grant. My project is titled: “Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies” (DALOSS) - 1/7
@ERC_Research
#ERCStG
@CBScph
📢Announcing PhD and postdoc positions for my new
@ERC_Research
project "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" (2023-3028)
@koebenhavns_uni
. Deadline Oct 15.✨
Phd:
Postdoc(s):
Excited and grateful to host the panel "Inference Worlds: Politics of Machine Learning Futures" with the brilliant
@AmooreLouise
and
@BN_Jacobsen
at
#EASST2022
! More info about the panel here:
Thrilled about
@OritHalpern
's upcoming CPH visit. You are more than welcome to join the public event: "Financializing Intelligence: On the Integration of Machines and Markets", April 2, 17-19.30
#DALOSS
#dataloss
So excited to facilitate two discussions on the wonderful book, Queer Data Studies, first in Copenhagen
@ucph_research
and then in Amsterdam at
#EASST2024
/
#4S
! Link to book:
ICYMI: If you are a PhD student and interested in studying data practices and politics, consider applying for our PhD course "The ends of data: theories, methods, and interventions in critical data and AI studies." Deadline May 1
#criticaldatastudies
#sts
✨Call for abstracts✨! Public Seminar and PhD Course at
@UCPH_Research
: "The ends of data: theories, methods, and interventions in critical data and ML studies." Keynotes from: Professor Mary Ebeling (Drexel University) and Professor Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna). Link👇
Please join us for
@ibalilebali
's talk "Reimagining networks and geographies of AI and Machine Learning" April 19, 2024
@UCPH_Research
!
More information here:
Come and join us for
#4
of our Critical Data and AI Lecture series with
@ibalilebali
on Friday, April 19th at 02:00 pm! His talk will be on „Reimagining networks and geographies of AI and machine learning“, taking place
@UCPH_Research
South Campus. Lmk if you‘re coming! 🤗
✨Grateful to welcome
@DLuitse
at
@UCPH_Research
for our Critical Data and AI Lecture series! Its the best way to mark the end of this semester's series, as our series was inspired by the wonderful Critical AI seminar series organised by
@ASchjoett
and
@DLuitse
:). Link below!
Very excited to talk during the excellent “Critical Data and AI lecture series" next week✨Thank you so much
@NThylstrup
and
@ravn_louis
for the invitation!
Així serà el cicle de debats paral·lel a
#IAcccb
:
🐒 "Ser humà en l'era de la IA", amb N. Katherine Hayles
👥 Seminari "Societats algorísmiques" (
@Algosoc_ERC
)
⚖️ "És possible una IA ètica?", amb
@m_b_fazi
i Ramon López de Mántaras
📆 21 i 22 de novembre
I'm very happy to be working on this SI proposal with
@ibalilebali
,
@grohmann_rafael
and
@JulianPosada0
. We seek contributions that shed more light on the entanglements between the field of development and data/platforms/machine learning/cloud infrastructures.
✨Ulrike Felt wrapping up our “Ends of data” seminar with a brilliant keynote on innovation’s residues. She followed on from Mary FE Ebeling’s heart wrenching keynote on health data afterlives in the US. In between them a wealth of 🔥 research from ECR. Just great!
@ERC_Research
Bring out the champagne, our article is "trending" at
@JCultEcon
🥂! If you want to read it but don't have institutional access send a DM (
@BondoHansen
&
@NThylstrup
). It should be of interest to people working in social studies of finance, platformization, ML and open source
Don't miss
@cristina_alaimo
's review of "The Politics of Mass Digitization" by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup for our Media Review Section published in our December issue.
Looking so much forward to seeing this show and later discuss it with the excellent team behind it
@ZaneGTCooper
@Laurenebridges
at this year's AoIR plenary "Global Challenges to a “Green Revolution” for the Internet"
Folks in or coming to Philly in the next 2 weeks - come see our show!
This exhibit showcases findings from a 2.5yr research project tracing the global flows of digital wasting from mining, manufacturing, operations, to discard.
Looking very much forward to going to Berlin tomorrow to join Temi Odumosu, Cornelia Sollfrank and
@Agos_Daniella
to discuss encounters and remains in archival commons for "The Whole Life"
@HKW_Berlin
. Please join us if you are close by:
🗃️✨ Got to spend all day talking about web archives and data loss with *the* expert
@NielsBr
and the team! So grateful for his generous interventions and sharing of insights. We even got a sneak peek of his upcoming book on the history of the Danish web!
@ERC_Research
@DFF_raad
✨I deeply appreciate
@ktcmackinnon
’s decision to join our
#dataloss
team. Her extensive expertise in web archives, and her mindful work on the ethics of the web archival encounters makes her an invaluable addition. I can't wait to see where her work takes us!
@ERC_Research
I am in Copenhagen !! So excited to have joined the DALOSS project with
@NThylstrup
at
@koebenhavns_uni
on the politics of data disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies 💾🔨⚡️
1) Such a privilege to work with the brilliant
@BondoHansen
on our new article, 'Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling', just out in
@JCultEcon
.
I am truly happy to see
@NThylstrup
and my article 'Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling' out in brilliant
@JCultEcon
. The article is on the use of open source (OS) ML modelling platforms and data repositories in finance (1/7)
So excited and relieved to see this article out in print soon in a special issue of
@icsjournal
on interoperability and written with
@matthewarcher5
and Henriette Steiner! Now we just need to look over the proofs, including correcting "discontentments" to "discontents" ...
So glad to see
@mitpress
speaking out about the hostile erasure of queer presence by Amazon's infrastructures (and looking forward to reading
@alex_monea
's upcoming book on how the Internet became straight)!
Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced product descriptions (the fancy graphics you sometimes see at the bottom of a book page on Amazon).
Delighted to co-host the 4th talk in the Critical Data and AI Lecture series
@UCPH_Research
on April 19, 2-3.30pm, this time with dr. Amir Anwar (
@ibalilebali
) and his talk "Reimagining networks and geographies of AI and Machine Learning"!
@ktcmackinnon
We just taught this in our Histories of Digital Culture course a few weeks ago and it's so useful for contextualizing what has been happening here:
Thrilled to imagine how discussing my project in flawless Spanish would unfold! Grateful to
@elpais_tec
for providing the opportunity to delve into the intricacies of data loss politics on your pages.
@ERC_Research
#Dataloss
Such a privilege to hear
@DLuitse
's great presentation on the platformed and infrastructural power of Kaggle today - I warmly recommend her wonderful article on the same topic co-authored with
@tpoell
and
@tobias_blanke
Very excited to talk during the excellent “Critical Data and AI lecture series" next week✨Thank you so much
@NThylstrup
and
@ravn_louis
for the invitation!
What a pleasure to begin the day with Beth Coleman’s keynote on wolves, dogs and AI opening the Infrastructural Interfaces conf hosted by inimitable
@karenWaltorp
✨
So grateful that I get to engage with
@AmooreLouise
's work on a regular basis. Cloud Ethics is a spectacular book and the work emerging out of
@Algosoc_ERC
's team is wonderful
I’m looking so much forward to welcoming
@PatrickKeilty
to
@UCPH_Research
may 13 for the next instalment of our Critical data and AI lecture series!! We’ll discuss his work on queer data studies. All welcome! Info:
#criticaldatastudies
I‘m more than excited to welcome
@PatrickKeilty
to
#6
of our „Critical Data and AI Lecture Series“ on Monday, May 13, 14:00-15:30. The talk will be on „Queer Data Studies“. Please shoot me a message or email if you‘d like to join us for the talk
@UCPH_Research
, South Campus! 😇
If you are curious about data loss you can also read my recent guest essay in
@nytimes
which touches upon some of the themes the project will delve into
@NThylstrup
and my article "Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling" is now out in an actual issue of the wonderful
@JCultEcon
. We are in great company! 🔥
The Wayback Machine was used to identify a network of 885 websites deployed by the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for covert communication
#uncertainarchives
Using just this one website (plus the Wayback Machine, passive DNS data, and Internet scan data) we were able to map out a total of 885 websites in 29+ languages, potentially geared towards assets in 36+ countries.
If you are interested in questions around
#dataloss
, then do send in an abstract for this
#EASST
panel
! As a discussant I look very much forward to engaging with your work. Deadline for submissions is this coming monday, Feb 12.
Watch: Israeli ambassador to the UN
@giladerdan1
used a paper shredder to shred the UN charter on the podium of the UN general assembly ahead of a vote that will give new privileges to the Palestinians at the UN
Super happy to see this special issue on "Reclaiming the Human in Machine Cultures of
@MCSjournal
out. Honoured to be a part of it. I couldn't have asked for better editors, huge congrats to
@simone_natale
and
@TeachGuz
for ensuring the completion of this excellent collection.
A deepfelt thank you to the brilliant staff
@bodleianlibs
sharing their inspiring work and crucial reflections on emerging digital tech. My favourite machine of the day might be this beauty however : the Nilfisk vacuum keeping book pages in place in the digitization cradle
I always knew that my money on newspaper subscriptions were well-spent, but after having been through the editing and fact checking process
@nytimes
I am so impressed at the work that goes into refining and validating each sentence. Thank you
@ParkerTRichards
!
We live in a digital society — it's time our data-management practices caught up to the times.
It's been wonderful to edit
@NThylstrup
on data loss, and how to prevent it — give it a read here:
Looking for suggestions! I am teaching Cultural History for BA students next semester focusing on tech + war, embodiment and domesticity. I'm now trying to find new texts that introduce the concept, practice and methods of cultural history - ideally recent ones too. Any tips?🙏
“ Here in Nairobi, Sama employees who speak at least 11 African languages between them toil day and night, working as outsourced Facebook content moderators . They perform the brutal task of viewing and removing illegal or banned content … before it is seen by the average user.”
.
@SamaAI
, a company whose mission is to provide people in places like Nairobi with “dignified digital work" & won data labelling contracts with corps like Google & Microsoft as "ethical AI" mistreats its East African workers & pays little as $1.50 per hour
This was a fun short article to write w
@matthewarcher5
and
@ravn_louis
for the excellent
@PolicyR
on the concept of
#traceability
that is often promoted in AI and blockchain discourses but rarely discussed in detail as a complex and contingent concept
⛓️ What is
#traceability
?
📄 New journal article by CIES post-doc
@matthewarcher5
among others investigates this deceptively simple but fundamentally crucial research topic in
#blockchain
technologies
Read here ⬇️
I had to drop out of
#ICA23
due to being in the last few weeks of pregnancy, but do make sure to attend the panel that I organised with
@riankasingh
on Mediated Silence and Feminist Refusals, Sat 27 at 9am!
This is also my sense: the politics of data dispossession include experiences of having data taken away even if it also remains “in place”, eg through model training. Jodi Byrd et al’s work on the affective economies of dispossession offers one perspective
@JackEllis
One reason is it feels like they took something that doesn't belong to them.
Another is that sensitive conversations happen over Slack, and LLMs tend to repeat things they've seen.
See, for example, Github.
It was an immense joy to chair the panel today on the social implications of quantum computing and technology at
@VSelskab
including discussions on how to balance the fun of quantum research w the gravity of political and social realities
Hvordan vil kvanteinformation og -beregning forme vores fremtid? Det er et af de spørgsmål, vi tager op til seminaret 'The Quantum Future' den 8. juni i Videnskabernes Selskab. Se program og tilmeld dig her:
@CarlaHSands
I'm Danish, and this is true. Whilst biking to work in the constant snowstorms we also have to fight off at least ten polar bears and angry mobs of jotuns! We have to share our toothbrushes with the entire neighbourhood AND are only allowed to eat state rations of kale!
⚡👉Thrilled to announce the program of the public
#CriticalAI
seminar series (online)
@ASchjoett
&
@tobias_blanke
and I are organizing🙌
Open to everyone that aims to better understand, critique and provide alternatives to current regimes of
#AIdevelopment
and implementation✨
Looking so much forward to co-organising this
@EASST2022Madrid
panel w our
#aireuse
team and the wonderful
@Algosoc_ERC
project! ✨please join us if you have the chance and interest
So grateful for the opportunity to engage with
@rkadelhi
's wonderful article "Crisis futures: COVID-19 and the speculative turning point of history" in the new special issue in
@globaldiscourse
on Crisis: .
1/ I am looking so much fwd to hosting
@FleurEJ
at
@UCPH_Research
. The workshop will facilitate a discussion of her wonderful new book, "
#Help
: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order" (
@OxUniPress
2023) on April 18. Info below about sign-up possibilities.
I am very much looking forward to visiting
@UCPH_Research
and
@MobileUCPH
soon to talk about new work on consular internationalism and recent work on digital humanitarianism.
Come by if you’re in Copenhagen:
With thanks to
@NThylstrup
&
@tgammeltoft
Very excited to be part of this brilliantly composed programme (by
@ASchjoett
and
@DLuitse
), and not least to hear
@AlexCampolo
's paper on errors and loss in ML!
Looking forward to "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation" - kudos to
@ASchjoett
and
@DLuitse
for such an interesting project. My talk is from a longrunning side project that I hope is nearing completion...
📣New! Edited by Ranjit Singh,
@jennaburrell
, and
@patrickdavison
, “Keywords of the Datafied State” is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between the government, technology, and data. 1/6
What an heartwarming experience giving a guest lecture on infrapolitics with
@Agos_Daniella
in
@tetisheri
's class for MLIS (Library, Archives and Info Studies) students. Best part = reading student responses. They're amazing and hope inducing (reflecting back on Noopur's class)✨
Sometimes academia is ✨: Thrilled to first host
@randimkh
's brilliant talk on "Personalized media and its poor compromise between anonymity and identification" () and grateful for the later warm welcome by the fantastic Techné group /
@karenWaltorp
@KuSamf
Excited to see that my recent article coming out of the
@ai_reuse
project is trending on
@MCSjournal
! Sadly "The Ethics and Politics of Data Sets in the Age of Machine Learning: Deleting Traces and Encountering Remains" is not OA, but I'm happy to share if you send me a DM.
✨Very happy to be able to share my new article titled "The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains" which is out in
@MCSjournal
open access
#datasets
#MachineLearning
#aireuse
Just Published: 'Neural Networks' (
@UMinnPress
and
@meson_press
), co-authored by Lucy Suchman,
@theolr
, and yours truly. Examining critically the figure of the neural network, the book puts the neuroscientific back into our conversations about computational neural networks. (1/n)
I am giving a talk in the excellent “Critical AI and Data lecture series tomorrow at the University of Copenhagen at 2pm local time. Happy to share materials if of interest.
Such a joy to host
@PatrickKeilty
's talk today on queer data studies which extended into a deeper conversation about the dilemmas of preservation and loss, and fragilities and resiliences of material formats. Echoes this wonderful guest essay by
@jasonokundaye
H/T
@melissaterras
"We are told that we live in an age of digital plenty, when everything is effortlessly accessible, but this just isn’t true." Archival silences and how it affects minorities...