🚨Publication alert🚨 My latest article is now out in IPS. The paper analyzes how the EU tries to make its internal security databases more trustworthy. I argue that “trust in data” is not natural or automatic but something that is actively built through political priorities and technical practices.

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop! Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧). 🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-... 🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre... #AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives

What’s The Irrational Decision about? Read about it here.

how should we understand and hold these systems to account?>> ai war cloud database @sarahciston.com aiwar.cloud

We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)

Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

[register] >> appraisal + [social science of databases. building metaphysical machines] >> 𖡡 edinburgh www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...

A third post in the @bordercrim.bsky.social themed series on methodology & detention by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Heimstra on using Freedom of Information requests in their forthcoming (excellent) book about privatisation of these places in the US: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

[21.05] Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab --> Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 @ Kunsthalle Wien kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...

"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving" Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social More information: cpdp.be/31038 #CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop

CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

<transparency promises are wrapped> into an assisted gaming service and sold as a premium feature

---> Critical Art vs. Prank Politics [08.04-online] w/ Dani Ploeger, Florian Weigl, @aramba.bsky.social, Francis Hunger, Nóra Ó Murchú + Hito Steyerl --> v2.nl/events/criti...

What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial technology? Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl

“desiloization” is (always) a power play 🤓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Six years, with colleagues at @privacyint.bsky.social, we fought against this - sounds like it might need to be done again. Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...

Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics

Latin American critical data studies by Rafael Grohmann in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

london [exhib/events] -->'combinatorial narrative machine' + tarot - origins + afterlives 👽 @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/calvi...

ty @alexfanta.bsky.social, @investigate-eu.bsky.social @euobserver.com , 'Concerning the internally published MyIntracomm message, the Secretariat-General would like to clarify that it is not a ‘document’ for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001' <--?--> 3(a) 🙃 www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

📂 So grateful that we got to keep the Derrida quote in the editing process! Even if Dr. Dave from the Bay Area thinks he's a gaslighter

Next session of the "Digital Materialities" seminar! The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities. Info and registration ⤵️

Just released v0.48.0 of xan, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social CSV wrangling command! Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes! github.com/medialab/xan...

You can see Airwars' short film, The Killings They Tweeted, here: idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org

new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

"Decentralizing Knowledges," edited by Leandro Rodriguez Medina & Sandra Harding, argues that epistemic decentralizing should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices that make such decentering possible. #PostcolonialTheory buff.ly/LffIJLD

As folks are embarking on all these data rescue / refuge projects, I hope they're heeding the lessons from the 2016/17 teams -- e.g., figshare.com/articles/jou... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg/vol29/is...

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

[Some hard drives he left behind on a private plot of land, under the care of one of its residents. He locked others he couldn’t bear to part with in the small safe, trekking with it through multiple displacements.] @lilahassan.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/archive-ga...

This is an amazing work indeed. An highly recommended (re/)reading!

Few people talk about the new EU API regulations - but they are about to have significant effects on data sharing infrastructures. @ikkibop.bsky.social, @rosamundevb.bsky.social, Vanessa Ugolini and I explicate on why this is important in this Op-ed for @policyr.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/5x51O

📢 Just published! Our article, "AI to Review Government Records: New Work to Unlock Historically Significant Digital Records" explores how AI can revolutionise digital archiving. 💡 Learn more about our findings and recommendations: doi.org/10.1007/s001... #AI #Archives #RecordsManagement #DH

🗓️ Save the date for our annual #eArchiving event – 'Preserving Digital Foundations with eArchiving' on 14 May 2025! 🌐 Hybrid event: in Brussels (venue TBC). 💡 Event is free of charge and open to anyone interested in electronic archiving and #digipres: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/pr...

In a couple weeks, I'll be talking about my current book project as part of the STS-MIGTEC Circle Series. In case you're as nerdy as me when it comes to information systems and data practices: come join the conversation :) Thu, 27 Feb 2025, 16:00-17:30 (CET) All info here: shorturl.at/IJFas

Our updated guide on #AccessToDocuments is here! It helps you understand your rights, reflects new EU case law and EU institutional rules, and contains our latest findings in this area. Want to know more on- 🔹 Who can request documents? 🔹 What docs are covered by EU law? Read here: europa.eu/!CwjBDc

Our paper on social norm affordances is out in Social Media + Society! @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social & I analysed how the technological affordances of Instagram and Twitter shape the social norm dynamics of climate change publics. Proud of this one! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thousands of ICE press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A flurry of government takedowns and rewrites last week sought to eliminate trans identities from the public record. Proponents of open information rushed to action, but the fight is not over yet.

>> Scaling, Mapping, Networking The Politics of Zoom @ICI Berlin www.ici-berlin.org/events/scali...

I wrote a chapter on data exchange between law enforcement & security agencies for the Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations many months ago, when I was still Dr. Tropina at Leiden Uni🙂. This book is finally out tomorrow! (Tread: 1/2) www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

>> ....a mnemap concerns the figuration of mnemocultures. Mnemocultures are cultures of memory that generate and disseminate “lively archives”>>> [D Venkat Rao] events.stanford.edu/event/de-sig...

New WP: Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development & control in Ireland, 2000-2024 by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan & Sam Mutter. Charts the management of planning/construction pipeline in Ireland mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/19264/

Hi all - we (@ktmac.bsky.social, Amelia Acker and more) are organising a #4S open panel on data loss and we hope you will submit an abstract to it! Get in touch if you have questions about relevancy, framing etc. Abstracts due Jan 31 For more info: tinyurl.com/DALOSSREVERB @4sweb.bsky.social

>> Looking forward this week to this event and participating in the ai + digital evidence hackathon w/ the Fenix Foundation, OSINT for Ukraine and @digitalmethods.net lu.ma/8g9cs6e6

Online now, my book chapter: "Digital Sovereignty in China, Russia, and India: From NWICO to SCO and BRICS" #digitalsovereignty www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

We organise a 'meet-the-editors' workshop with @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on 30+31 Jan. 2025. We will meet Jennifer Gabrys + Matthew Zook at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium). Check the program and consider registering!👇 shorturl.at/Owra0 | @lsts-vub.bsky.social @dataunion-erc.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to this session and to continuing the conversation on ‘algorithmic violence’. And also very proud to be in such amazing company (thx to the organisers!)

[now] >>logistic dependencies, the operational chains of humans, and the infrastructural layers that enable them; as well as their relation to cinematic technologies>> dronomation generativemedia.net/event/dronom....