It's 10.40pm here in Copenhagen and we've just entered the third session of this panel series on data loss at #4S2025! Here's are some ongoing reflections on the amazing papers in the series! #STS #DataLoss

This Sat. Sept 6 we have three very exciting #dataloss panels at #4S2025! While some of our team won't be there in person, we are all thrilled to host these critical discussions examining loss and erasure as constitutive forces in digital systems. Join us tomorrow through the links below!

Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!

My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣 netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/ 🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15 🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM 20-23 APR 2026 #webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities

Deadline for proposals July 27

👀 Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction Benjamin N. Jacobsen journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨

✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.

@ktmac.bsky.social presenting her amazing @erc.europa.eu research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025

headed to #RESAW25 this week ✈️ Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖

This afternoon! 🌟✨

Event announcement: Join us for a #workshop on June 2nd, 10am - 3pm! Together with team #DALOSS (KU), we are hosting a workshop on tools, practices, and ethnographic experiences related to destruction of data Limited spaces! For sign-up, detailed agenda & questions please write to [email protected]

My colleagues and I are doing a bunch of cool events on making sense of AI from a critical social science perspective over the next two months. First up, our event on visual AI literacies on May 30th: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/10/s...

REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society. Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

@alondra.bsky.social exercising exit and voice by resigning from two prestigious positions whose role is being distorted and rendered useless, if not worse:

Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)

1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.

✨The first two papers in our Topical Collection on the 'Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation' are out in Digital Society! The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo. link.springer.com/collections/...

[REMINDER] 2-days left to apply for Data Stories CFP on 'Data Voids' this November in Lisbon, Portugal. See below for details 👇

Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

On the air (in Danish)! I visited @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social in www.dr.dk/lyd/special-... to discuss my and @richove.bsky.social + @ktmac.bsky.social’s @nytimes.com guest essay about the Trump administration deletions (Deletion Donald).

"We need a right to remember, and not simply to support researchers. Maintaining an informed citizenry in a democratic society calls for deliberation, transparency and accountability. Archives are essential to that function." #DataLoss essay from @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & @richove.bsky.social

Super pleased with student's responses this week to our Histories of Digital Cultures - Doing History Playlist w/ featured work by @valeriesch.bsky.social @textfiles.com @loriemerson.net @adamegriff.bsky.social @ktmac.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social and others. textaural.com/uva_HDC/play...

I'm adding this op-ed to my syllabus for next week, for our "Critical History of the Archive" class. Just today was talking to some students about the right to be forgotten. Now we must fight for the right to remember.

I'm co-editing a Special Issue for Critical Studies in Media Communication on "Games & Storage" 📦 Guided by Zoe Sofia’s articulation of “container technologies” and how systems of storage are never neutral! Let's unlid Game Studies! Full CFP in 🧵👇Abstracts due April 22! Full drafts by June!

Finally, the politics of data rescue exposes democratic fragility. While volunteers rush to archive vanishing government data, this emergency model can't sustain democratic information commons. Our right to remember shouldn't depend on crisis response—it requires institutional guarantees.

Beyond the data loss, I've been reflecting on the institutional trauma experienced by researchers and civil servants forced to delete their own work—people who built these knowledge repositories only to be compelled to dismantle them.

New essay in @nytimes.com✨ With @richove.bsky.social I discuss gov data deletion of vital datasets and health resources as political strategy. Special thx to brilliant (!) @ktmac.bsky.social for our exciting discussions that has shaped this thinking! Thank you @erc.europa.eu for enabling our work

I contributed some #dataloss research for this great piece by @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @richove.bsky.social in the NYT today!

CFP: special issue of AI & Society on "Cultural Workers and Generative AI" > "This topical collection...aims to analyze the ways that cultural labor is being reshaped by AI in terms of labor process and cultures of production, and the ways that cultural workers are collectively fighting back […]

We ask: 📍Where is our archive? 📍Whose heritage are we preserving? 📍Who cares for it? Our guiding statements—Take it down, Take it slow, Take it back—connect critical archival studies with ecological justice to imagine an archival ecosystem beyond Big Tech. 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Many academic authors are understandably struggling to maintain momentum right now. I'm offering two FREE services this summer that I hope will help a little: monthly(ish) office hours and drop-in writing sessions. Both are free and open to all (no need to be a current client)! More info👇

🕸️ We are doing this conference at Media of Cooperation this June ... It is called THE DATAFIED WEB, and it will be a blast! Registration for #RESAW25 is now open. Please spread widely, and do not forget to check out the marvelous programme at datafiedweb.net! #www #history #archive #data #AI

Finalizing our syllabus for "Histories of Digital Culture" (it includes discussing work of @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy @loriemerson.net @ktmac.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social, @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social). I'm making a music playlist for the students, and would love some suggestions!

1 / Executive power now operates via Delete Commands in digital infrastructures. This isn't data management. It's calculated obliteration of who gets to exist in digital memory and knowledge infrastructures. Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our (@ktmac.bsky.social and my) essay!

23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare www.404media.co/dna-of-15-mi...

Who decides which data disappears – and what does that mean for democracy? NANNA THYLSTRUP (nannathylstrup.bsky.social) and KATIE MCKINNON explore how political changes in digital infrastructures reshape access to knowledge and democracy in the U.S. and beyond. verfassungsblog.de/the-politics...

New from the data loss team, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and I wrote a short blog post on the politics of digital erasure in government information infrastructures ⬇️ verfassungsblog.de/the-politics...

Really good summary of all of the intentional erasure of history: www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

Last night @nannathylstrup.bsky.social gave a brilliant talk on ‘The ethicopolitics of unlearning’ at @camdighum.bsky.social, where she brought us through logics and politics of unthought and forgetting in machine learning architectures ✨⭐️💫 @erc.europa.eu

So grateful to host the amazing Unso (Eun Seo) Jo (Cornell) and her brilliant talk on the global history of AI at the University of Copenhagen. From pooping ducks, shintoism and microworlds to semiconductors, proxy wars and AGI. #DALOSS @ktmac.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Another paper, co-authored with @ktmac.bsky.social, that we literally *just* finished develops a concept we are calling "network nationalism", which is premised on issues related to industrial dependency, geopolitical sovereignty, and user data privacy. A distinctly pre-neoliberal cocktail.

Today!

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 @uni.lu We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) or Associate Professor in Sociology specializing in Youth Studies! 📚✨ Apply now: emea3.mrted.ly/3ttdr

We’re very fortunate that Digital Society Research Group (DISC) fellow Dr Katie MacKinnon is delivering a talk on Arctic Archives: Temporal politics of platform power on Thursday (12-1pm), followed by a workshop on Early Internet Memories on next week! See more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-ar...

this thurs. feb 20 I am giving a public lecture on GitHub's Arctic Vault and other deep time data archives at @manmetcrimsoc.bsky.social and it'll stream online too! join here: tinyurl.com/ARCTICARCHIVES.

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...