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Lecture: “The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory Still Matters!”
On 12 June the Datafied Society and the Centre for Humanities present the lecture The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory Still Matters! with Prof. Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science). This lecture will discuss the question of social order, and in particular the social order of our…
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Call for Participants | Online Data School Summer School 2020: ‘Exploring Culture Through Data’
Data School welcomes students (and non-students) from all Universities to join us in a 5-day online crash course in data practices and digital methods. During this week we will acquire the handles and perspectives to study culture through data practices. We are happy to invite you to the 2020 Data School summer edition that will…
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A draft write up of the “Bots & Digital Infrapuncture” workshop
By Karin van Es Cristina Cochior and Manetta Berends, both researchers/designers operating in the Netherlands, developed an online workshop Bots and Digital Infrapuncture inspired by professor Deb Verhoeven’s concept “digital infrapuncture”. The aim of the workshop was to imagine bots in chat protocols that intervene in the assumptions on which the platforms are designed. The…
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Data walking in Düsseldorf: A quick write up on the datafication of coffee bean roasting
by Karin van Es For the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association for Cultural Management conference I was asked to organize a data walk. With four other participants we walked the city center of Düsseldorf using the theme “ownership” to frame our conversations as we defined, observed and reflected on data. The first fifteen minutes…
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5 Activities for Cultivating Tool Criticism Thinking
by Karin van Es The incorporation of computational tools in humanities research requires that we think critically about how these tools impact knowledge production. These tools, often adopted from the empirical sciences, have profound implications for data processing and interpretation. It is not surprising then that David Berry (2012) has called for a ‘third wave’…