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migrant, cyclist, boxeur, bailarina de tango. believes in bikes and mountains. prof at @UvA_Amsterdam. knows a thing or two about movements and surveillance
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Exciting! 🎉🥳I am humbled&honored to have been awarded a 2,5 million EUR @ERC_Research Advanced Grant to study how data infrastructure govern the social. After @data_ctive, it’s now time for DATAGOV! Stay tuned:we’ll hire 7 ppl @UvA_Humanities @UvA_Amsterdam! #HorizonEU #ERCAdG
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humbled and honoured by the many congrats I received from so many people for my appointment as Prof of Critical Data Studies at @UvA_Humanities. It is a reminder that this is not a "me" story but a collective enterprise--and I have so many thanks in store for each of you! From. .
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on 24/6 I was honoured to keynote at ‘Machines that Fail Us’ @HSGStGallen. Not knowing where to leave my toddler,I was encouraged to take them and my hosts even paid for ✈️. 🙏🏻 to the awesome @veronicabarassi @philipdisalvo &team for making it possible 1/2
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now tell me with what face do I show up in front of my students to teach a course called “digital activism” at @UvA_Amsterdam #uvaprotest Proud of our students #thisIsNOTmyUniversity
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seeing my @UvA_Amsterdam students being bulldozed away in the very same buildings were we teach them how to be active citizens and make the world a better place is SHOCKING + PAINFUL. I am in utter shock. #ThisIsNOTmyUniversity. Follow live at @AT5 >>
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#NationalWalkout from @UvA_Amsterdam. “If the structure does not permit dialogue, the structure must be changed” (Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1972) #uvaprotests
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very honoured and humbled to join @BKCHarvard for 2020-21 as a faculty associate! looking forward to many exciting conversation and new colleagues to conspire with <3.
The Berkman Klein Center is delighted to announce the 2020-2021 community! Meet the 19 new fellows, and the new and returning community members who will animate the Center in the coming year 🎉🎉🎉
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humbled and honoured to have been nominated as UvA Lecturer of the Year 2022! But the merit is all on our excellent Master student cohort. not sure who learns the most in the exchange.
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today is the BIG DAY:after 9 months of inviting/editing/posting/formatting/fundraising/pestering/copyediting, much 💕& team work, the #OA book "COVID-19 From the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society" will be published by @INCAmsterdam
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we at @data_ctive are featured on @nature as an example of how technology can help creating inclusive labs: :-) at @UvA_Humanities thanks to @ERC_Research.
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happy to join @BKCHarvard as a faculty associate for this academic year! 🙏🏻🤩 in such a good company!!.
BKC is kicking off the new year today! We're excited to (virtually) connect with our new and returning community members around the world throughout the week 🥳🥳 .
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It's always a defeat when a university closes doors to students+staff. We decided the best answer was to keep learning& dialoguing. It takes time/patience/empathy/hard work but THIS is how we grow as a learning community. We won't stand shushed, we won't quiet down #uvaprotests
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Yesterday we finally made it to #Venice! This concludes our European journey all the way from #Amsterdam across Germany, Austria and Switzerland: from the Venice of the North to the Amsterdam of the South! Below are the stats. Thanks 🙏🏻 for all your support along the way! 1/3
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🤩thrilled that our book ‘#COVID19 from the Margins' will be released Monday! 5 idioms, 75 author & #openaccess 🙏to publisher @INCAmsterdam & funders @uva_gdc @aces_for ASCA @ERC_Research. Get your printed copy for free! 🫂 to authors&best co-editors @EmilianoTrere @SilviaHedley.
🥁🥁 amazed to announce that our book ‘#COVID19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society’, will be released #openaccess on Monday 1st Feb! THANK YOU to the 75 amazing contributors to the collection. We can’t wait to see it live!
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Really sick of being banned from events & meetings because I am an Italian migrant and I happened to visit my family when this #COVIDー19 madness exploded.For the record and should anyone care (usually they DO NOT, they just worry about themselves), I keep going strong & healthy.
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#natuurijs #schaatsenopnatuurijs have been waiting for this moment since i moved to the NL nine winter ago!
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v proud to be one of the #ERC10kGrantees and one of the 15 amongst us featured to illustrate 15 ways in which @ERC_Research has transformed science! (see the awesome others at But what does it mean in practice to be lucky enough to land a ERC grant? [1/4]
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first day as the *former* PI of the @data_ctive project, funded by @ERC_Research! Over 5+ years I have been blessed with the best team I could have wished for, with 25+ ppl who joined me & a core of six amazing colleagues: @david_berra @Kolenyo @KerstiRu Lonneke vd Velden. 1/2
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here they are! the printed copies of “COVID-19 from the Margins” ed by myself @EmilianoTrere@big @SilviaHedley made it to my @UvA_Humanities office! exciting! However it may take a while for them to reach authors as @mellamonicolas and truly yours package them one by one with ❤️
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as the @data_ctive project is coming to an end 😢, we are preparing a fun event to say goodbye! we’re all tired of online events, but ours is colorful, short and punchy! chk the lineup: - with @nielstenoever @Kolenyo. and guests!
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people starting a question with "let me explain to you" and address panellists as "young ladies" should have no mic at #IGF2017.
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thrilled to announce the publication of the #SI on #movements in the datafied society in @SocMovStudies! Edited by @david_berra, myself & @flesherfominaya, it includes 10 articles by @EmilianoTrere @tbonini @couldrynick @dmuravyov2 @davidsmeyer1 & more!
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goodbye #AoIR2022! it was brief but intense 😍 a shout out to the organizers for so many reasons (love those energy balls!) but also for a reason unknown to most: the comfy nursing/pumping room! ‘Cause also new mums love conferencing 😉 🙏🏻
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v proud to announce the publication of the Special Issue on 'data activism' of Krisis:J for Contemporary Philosophy (,guest-edited by myself & L vd Velden for @data_ctive. Featuring @jwyg @GutierrezMiren @hmtk @dourish @LinaDencik @tweetbaack @ERC_Research.
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humbled and honoured to have served as external examiner of @C___CS’ PhD dissertation on human rights advocacy within the @ietf, defended at @oiioxford. Rarely have I assisted to such a awesome defence: extremely clear, forward-looking, entertaining! Congrats Dr Corinne!! 🎉🙏🏻.
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I received enthusiastic messages from parents who feel theirs kids are often not welcome in academic events or even life. This needs to change! Ah, and we had the time of our life 😎
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we are hiring (again)! This time we are looking for 4-6 Lecturers in New Media and Digital Culture: Apply by 7 June 2022!.
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Excited to announce "Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public #values in #standards-making and #governance", a new project funded by @NWO_MVI! Looking forward to collaborate with @pgroth (@ams_ds), @rachovitsa (@GroningenLaw) & @NEN_nl. Soon hiring!
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stage 16 of our #Amsterdam to #Venice #biketour, plagued by heavy rain ⛈, saw us descending the #Valsugana to finally arrive in Campagnalta, where I was born&raised and where the entire family awaited at the finish line with #prosecco flowers banners! - w/ @JoelvdWeele 🚴🚴♀️❤️🇪🇺
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the beauty of being part of a caring community that does not shy away in front of the complexity of problems and the difficulty of dialogue (ah, and police brutality) - with @mayaywind @SarahABracke @OBarghoutiWCU and all of you 🙏🤟💕
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my reflections on counting and #Covid_19 is out in @BigDataSoc!! thanks to @EvelynRuppert for the invite ❤️ In good company of @Nisa00 and many others. and it is #OA so you can share wide and far!.
Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the COVID-19 pandemic. Commentary in the Viral Data symposium by Stefania Milan (@annliffey) #COVID19 #whiteness #ContactTracing #decolonial #pluriverse
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as Dutch citizens ask @markrutte "not to give money to the Italians and the Spanish", I am here to remind @Markrutte and all that MANY of us Italians and Spanish are here in the NL to teach yr students, cook yr food, serve you beers, etcetera.Seriously considering packing my bags.
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super proud that @data_ctive ‘s first Dr @nielstenoever’s PhD dissertation received a Honorable Mention in the @AoIR_org 2021 Best Dissertation Award! 🍾🍾🍾 read it at - it’a #OA! with @UvA_Humanities @UvA_Amsterdam @ERC_Research.
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fresh off the press! an amazing collection of easy-to-digest pieces complemented by awesome illustrations to rethink the datafied society in the post-pandemic world! with @EmilianoTrere & truly yours on Latin American perspectives and “buen vivir” with data. Free download!.
📢The downloadable PDF version of the #DigitalNewDeal compendium is now LIVE! 📖. Check it out: To know more about our effort to #StopDavosAgenda by ushering in a #DigitalNewDeal as if people & planet matter, check out the thread 👇
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v proud to be finally able to share what has kept @EmilianoTrere & myself busy since 2016 at:Rethinking #datafication #surveillance #privacy from a Southern perspective, interrogating concepts, theories. Our #OA article is out in @tvnewmedia > #BigDataSur.
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not something to think about on a saturday night, but this needs all of attention on monday! The #NL last in Europe for number of #female researchers!!.
My new map shows the % of female researchers in Europe, according to UNESCO data. Link to the data source is in the map just below the legend. 👩🔬.#women #science #womenintech #rstats #maps #dataviz #DataScience
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NOW OUT! . “Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries, co-authored with @pondswimmer . #OA at in the Special Issue “We Are on a Mission”. On imaginaries the governance of digital technology edited by @ckatzenbach & @astridmager.
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I am not a big fan of the "academic Twitter",so dedicated to whining or boasting.But today shout out to the many GENEROUS colleagues I've worked with so far:we need more of you!To the others, no, we don't need your self-entered me-me-me-ness. There's another way of being academia.
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overjoyed by the first in person conference in a long while. welcome to Media and Publics conference at @roskildeuni! Sharing the stage with @zizip @noortjemarres for the opening keynote😍 Can't wait to learn from the 82 presentations in the program:
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we are at this. For the non-Dutch: article asks whether teaches can demonstrate against their own uni. Clearly these people ignore academic freedom and the history of (e.g.) labor movement. ps once again: anti-Semitism does NOT belong here - via @NOS.
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1/3 proud to announce that the Special Issue 'Big Data from the South' is finally live in @tvnewmedia! Edited by @EmilianoTrere & myself, upon invitation of the awesome @jonathan_c_ong, it features articles from @couldrynick U.Mejias @paolaricaurte @3Lmantra.@DrMoniqueMann(cont.).
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restaurant in #Amsterdam, tonight: we need to collect yr names and phone number. why? the pandemic. who stores it and where? I have no clue. Time to enjoy that comfy take away for a little more :/.
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hey world! DATACTIVE (@data_ctive @ERC_Research) is ending & we want to go out with a bang!🧨Join us on June 29-30 to talk about 'Data Activism Futures" & "Art as Data Activism" produced with @engagetv + @SPUI25! Watch the trailer ps dancing only postponed.
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in exciting news, we have just received the ePUB version of our new book!! edited by @EmilianoTrere @SilviaHedley and truly yours! featuring @BigDataSur it will be published *open access* by the awesome @INCAmsterdam. from the first pandemic of the datafied society with ❤️ & rage
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today for stage 8 of our #Amsterdam to #Venice grand tour 🚴🚴♀️ we cycle along the Kochertal and continue climbing to Ellwangen. You can follow our diary on & check out maps on @Strava (and @JoelvdWeele posts daily routes updates). Best thing? Sunflowers!
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since it came up a few times already today, here goes the link to the Special Issue on 'Data Activism' of Krisis: Journal of Contemporary Philisophy, with pieces by @LinaDencik @jwyg @hmtk et al., edited by @data_ctive #openaccess at #datajustice18.
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the first of the amazing @data_ctive PhD students has now a defense date! This is a brilliant piece of work criss-crossing disciplines and governance realms. Watch out for this guy! And yeah, save the date!! I am a very #proudsupervisor - with @ERC_Research ❤️.
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note to self from the world of editing journal special issues: women say yes to review much more often than their male colleagues. And I know for a fact these are VERY busy women. Thanks and ❤️ to all of them.
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It's official now: .@data_ctive spinoff project "ALgorithms EXposed.Investigating Automated #Personalization and #Filtering for Research and Activism" (ALEX) to start on 1st Dec thanks to funding by @ERC_Research!w/ Lead Developer @_vecna @david_berra & perhaps you?(#hiring soon).
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if you've missed the awesome @aces_for online debate on'Governance by data infrastructure in post-pandemic Europe: What risks for democracy?', with @franmusiani @sedyst @claudia_aradau @linnetelwin @bialasiewicz, you can now catch up on YouTube at ! ENJOY!.
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stage 9 of our #Amsterdam to #Venice #biketour was a 120k intense route long, hot and humid, with quite some #climbing, some #swimming, some #storm, many castles and even more forests 🌳 We already got to #Ausburg, quite far from Amsterdam (see #map)! - with @JoelvdWeele
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look at what the mailman delivered today! Can’t wait to dive into this amazing work by @a_b_powell ❤️
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1/2 thrilled that the collection "COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities. Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society", edited by truly yours, @EmilianoTrere & @SilviaHedley is now with publisher @INCAmsterdam. Out #OA in December in time for yr xmas shopping!
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Preprint of 'Political Agency, Digital Traces, and Bottom-Up Data Practices' presented today @ #aoir2017 is online .
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so so exciting to have Geert Lovink from @INCAmsterdam back at @UvA_Humanities! right now, online and on site, Geert’s oratie. Brace yourself for awesomeness
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Can democracy be upcycled? Today @JoelvdWeele and I will deliver our *joint* inaugural lecture as @UvA_Amsterdam Prof: an interdisciplinary conversation on how to make democracy work. Streamed live at 1630.
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yet another awesome soirée of @uva_gdc, this time on algorithmic resistance and the coloniality of power. with some of my very favorite human beings: @EmilianoTrere @linnetelwin Paola Ricaurte Gabriel Pereira❤️❤️❤️
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the Central Student Council, one of the representative bodies of @UvA_Amsterdam, demands the resignation of the uni's Executive Board and a public apology for the excessive violence in repressing student+staff protests this week #uvaprotest #uvaprotesten
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this is the conclusion of our summer grand tour #amsterdam to #venice by bike! bikes in boxes after having however cycled over 2500K (each) in < 2 months. but ready for the next cycling adventure with @JoelvdWeele @ChiaraNalim @Nisa00 and whoever joins us! ❤️🚴♀️
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starting about NOW! Decolonizing Data Universalism. or trying to. Organised by @BigDataSoc. I will try to channel some of the debate around @BigDataSur, and my reflections in the good company of @EmilianoTrere & @SilviaHedley.
Our webinar on Decolonizing Data Universalism starts in 10 mins, Examining agency of people positioned at the margins of data universalism .September 29th, 9:00-11:00 (GMT+1) . @YuShanTseng @annliffey Ola Sonderstorm @syperng @AyonaDatta @thkukutai
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warming up the engines for today's DATACTIVE @data_ctive closing event! But since #DATACTIVENEVERDIES (cit @david_berra) this is just a goodbye & see you soon! We had too much fun in these 5+ y to let it go! with @nielstenoever @pondswimmer @Kolenyo @KerstiRu Jeroen Lonneke et al
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amazing line up for a landmark panel on online gender-base abuse. kudos to #CPDP2019 organizers for giving it the largest room. but very few men in the audience: do our colleagues think gender-based abuse is just a question for. girls? we need you!
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out in four weeks from now a book exploring the dynamics of 'data colonialism': 'The costs of connection' by @couldrynick and Ulises A. Mejias, on stage now at #iamcr2019 >> #BigDataSur
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tonight at 6pm ad De Hallen, Amsterdam: a unique conversation on "Digital Transformation in the Amazon Assemblage" with indigenous leaders from the Brazilian Amazon, @linnetelwin & Paola Ricaurte, brought to you by @PaulaHelm12 Roanne van Voorst @uva_gdc:
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here we go! A book produced with 💕 by a stubborn editorial team and a truly global network of authors. #openaccess + distributed for free (while supplies last). Download .epub .pdf from the @INCAmsterdam website. Thanks 🙏 @uva_gdc @aces_for ASCA at @UvA_Humanities @ERC_Research.
🥁🥁 “COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society”. 75 authors, 5 languages, 282 pages of narration from the silenced voices of the #COVID19 pandemic. Order & download the book here! #bigdatasur 🥁🥁
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so exciting to get together in person again! At @UvA_Amsterdam a small group of us is "Rethinking new media cultures from the #East and #South", a workshop organised by @swotithot @ESchoorel & myself.We won't solve it all today but watch out for the workshop report to learn more.
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the @data_ctive collective to family, from colleagues to funders, I wouldn't be celebrating today without you 😍 as the troublemaker I am, I'll strive to use the new position to (seek to) make academia a slightly better place, and research a force of change in society.THANK YOU🙏.
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excited to announce the start of e-LADDA, a Marie Curie ITN with new colleagues & disciplines (@nivedita_mani @KennyCoventry @ProfKateCain @DavidSaldana_en @SBREurope @NTNUnorway. ) looking at language development in the digital age. We will soon be looking for 12 PhD students!.
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yet another awesome PhD to come out of the @data_ctive project! Can't wait for the truly amazing insights of @pondswimmer to be shared wide and far! @deGoede9 and truly yours are very proud supervisors.
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we are hiring (again)! this time Media Studies at @UvA_Amsterdam is looking for two lecturers--great entry-level positions to join the coolest team studying new media and digital culture! deadline: 22 November >>
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[1/2] happy to announce a new collaborative space to explore the impact of the #pandemic on communities at the margins. Join us to welcome the multilingual blog "#COVID19 from the margins", edited by @EmilianoTrere @silvia & truly yours. Check it out: . ].
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(1/3) The program for the "Big Data from the South: Towards a research agenda" in #Amsterdam on Dec 4-5 is OUT! w/ @couldrynick @3Lmantra @merlyna @linnetelwin @wrongrrl @data_ctive @EmilianoTrere @EnricoCalandro @alb3rtocossu @FabienCante @mariadelcuy @monika_halkort #BigDataSur.
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super proud of this new special issue on Governing "European values" inside data flows, edited by @k_irion, @miraburri, Ans Kolk &myself for the awesome #OA @PolicyR! Contributions from, among others, @bodobalazs @LinaDencik @JoshCowls @OskarGstrein @JedrzejNiklas @NathalieSmuha.
📣🎉New Special Issue: Governing “European values” inside data flows, guest-edited by Kristina Irion (@k_irion), Mira Burri (@miraburri), Ans Kolk, & Stefania Milan (@annliffey) #openaccess
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look what showed up in my mailbox!! thanks @veronicabarassi for sharing your amazing work ❤️❤️❤️ looking forward to use it in our Digital Activism course!
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proud to present the full stack of articles for the trilingual (!) Special Issue of Palabra Clave on Latin American perspectives on datafication and #AI, edited by @EmilianoTrere & truly yours. #OA at Awesome authors to start a much-needed conversation!.
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excited to have @SilviaHedley talk to our ResMA students about datafied social protection in #India: from #inequality to #datajustice
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Stage 13 of our #Amsterdam to #Venice #biketour saw us finally crossing the border to #Italy 🇮🇹 at the passo di Resia, after overheating on the way up 🥵 The beautiful views of the Ortler were a great reward. Now it’s just a long descent to Venice, right?! - with @JoelvdWeele 🇪🇺
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very proud that our projects @data_ctive and Algorithms Exposed hosted by @UvA_Humanities are featured in the @ERC_Research annual event, this year dedicated to #CitizenScience. You can follow live!.
👋 Don't miss it! ERC event on #CitizenScience and Frontier Research is already on Wednesday! .Check the programme and follow live 👉 #ERCengage
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… and why face masks can be a legitimate means to protect the right to protest. Not everyone has the same privilege to protest, even in a democratic country (eg on a student visa, on scholarship, or nonEU passport) #uvaprotest #facialrecognition #facemask
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on average I receive 2-3 requests/week from students who have been assigned by colleagues to interview a research on [add topic].As much as I LOVE to talk to motivated students,please dear colleagues STOP with these assignments!Let's not keep generating more work for each other. .
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we contributed to organize #APC2018 but withdrew to protest Palantir=sponsor. As academics we must consider carefully where we stand&what we legitimize. Here why: I am afraid we will see more of this in the neoliberal univ. w/ @pondswimmer @DataJusticeLab.
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if you want to secure your free, printed copy (on sustainable paper) of "COVID-19 from the margins", add your address here: #AoIR2022 @BigDataSur #decolonizeverything.
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we're hiring! Join @UvA_Amsterdam as the new assistant professor in Computational Social Science! Apply by March 6th. Info at
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1/3 In times where the relationship between #Italy & The #Netherlands is fraught due to misunderstandings and stereotypes, we, a hard-working Italian and a generous Dutch (!), want to create a bridge between our two countries. Starting Sunday the 19th of July, we are #cycling. .
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and on a more personal level, what does it mean to be one of the #ERC10kGrantees? I am a 1st generation academic, born and raised in a small village in Northern Italy. I supported my studies working as a lifeguard, swimming instructor, journalist. [1/3] .
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join us on Dec 9 5pm CET to discuss "Governance by data infrastructure in post-pandemic Europe:What risks for democracy?"! Feat. @franmusiani @linnetelwin @sedyst @claudia_aradau @bialasiewicz & truly yrs on vaccination certs ect.Sign up at #QRsamenleving.
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(3/3). alone. This is not a huge surprise for a country that granting voting rights to women like… yday. But it needs to change! let’s tell them! @veronicabarassi @tavmos @nhelberger @alice_corona @JoelvdWeele @AliceEmme @EmilianoTrere @claesdevreese @giuliaevolvi @masaccio_ ….
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my #book on tech #activism has been released in #paperback by @PalgraveCultMed!baby step towards accessible research
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full room on a sunny sat morning for a session on open source investigation techniques in journalism (#OSINT) with @bellingcat et al. Takeaways: mindset (not tech) makes the difference; open access/community engagement/creation of networks/training of reporters are key #ijf19.
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come work with us!!.
We are hiring! We currently have several positions for assistant professors in e.g. medieval history, data science and ethics, history of slavery, and media analysis with a focus on climate change, as well as six PhD positions. For all vacancies, check
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the 2020 year-in-review of @BigDataSur is out! A thematic blog on #COVID19 seen from the margins, an #OA book for @INCAmsterdam, a special issue on Latin American perspectives on datafication & AI are among the highlights! Find out more at [1/2].
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felicità!!! #SilviaRomano finalmente libera! The Italian aid worker Silvia Romano, kidnapped in Kenya 1,5 years ago, is finally free! The first really good news in a long time! Orgogliosi di te, Silvia!!
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