Benedetta Catanzariti
@benedetta.bsky.social
British Academy Postdoc @STIS University of Edinburgh | Researching knowledge, power & tech | co-run ai-ethics.org
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Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society
Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...
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✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society
Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...
link.springer.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
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✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice
May 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice
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📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva
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The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work
Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance
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April 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva
👇🏻 Sign up here below
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✨👾 Get in touch if you’d like to join us for a critical discussion on normativities, medicine and algorithms!
📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info
We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!
We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!
April 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
✨👾 Get in touch if you’d like to join us for a critical discussion on normativities, medicine and algorithms!
Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏
This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more
Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!
April 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏
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🕺setting up for our Doctoral Colloquium in this fabulous Edinburgh Futures Institute room
March 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🕺setting up for our Doctoral Colloquium in this fabulous Edinburgh Futures Institute room
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📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations
⬇️ sign up here:
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Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI
This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI
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March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
🚨🚨Two more days to submit an abstract to our 4S panel on care and repair in times of broken machines! The conference will be ✨ hybrid ✨ Share your work with us!
🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🚨🚨Two more days to submit an abstract to our 4S panel on care and repair in times of broken machines! The conference will be ✨ hybrid ✨ Share your work with us!
📢 New publication out! 📢
Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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January 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢 New publication out! 📢
Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨 one more week to submit an abstract to STS Italia 🚨
If your work explores algorithmic transformations of care, consider submitting an abstract to our open panel ‘Re-ordering Care’ (panel 54). Deadline is February 3!
If your work explores algorithmic transformations of care, consider submitting an abstract to our open panel ‘Re-ordering Care’ (panel 54). Deadline is February 3!
📢 Thrilled to co-convene a panel on ‘Re-Ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice and Governance’ (panel 54) at the 2025 STS Italia 🌞
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🚨 one more week to submit an abstract to STS Italia 🚨
If your work explores algorithmic transformations of care, consider submitting an abstract to our open panel ‘Re-ordering Care’ (panel 54). Deadline is February 3!
If your work explores algorithmic transformations of care, consider submitting an abstract to our open panel ‘Re-ordering Care’ (panel 54). Deadline is February 3!
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🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
January 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
✨ This year, I’ll be co-convening a panel with my fantastic AIES peers on ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA). Submit an abstract 👉 www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Deadline is January 31!
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January 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
✨ This year, I’ll be co-convening a panel with my fantastic AIES peers on ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA). Submit an abstract 👉 www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Deadline is January 31!
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Peeps! The call for Panels for the STS-CH Conference 2025 is now open! The conference titled “Holding Things Together? Change, Continuity, Critique” will take place from Sept. 10–12, 2025 in Zurich and is being co-hosted by @ethzurich.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social.Join us!
January 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Peeps! The call for Panels for the STS-CH Conference 2025 is now open! The conference titled “Holding Things Together? Change, Continuity, Critique” will take place from Sept. 10–12, 2025 in Zurich and is being co-hosted by @ethzurich.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social.Join us!
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CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
December 12, 2024 at 1:19 PM
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
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🚨 Call for Participants 🚨: I am currently looking to recruit radiologists for a study I am conducting on the Governance of AI in Radiology. Voluntary participation in this study involves a 40 minute- 1 hour interview (on Microsoft Teams). Link to sign up here: calendly.com/b-ganesh/phd...
PhD Project/ AI Governance in Healthcare Interviews - Bhargavi Ganesh
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December 10, 2024 at 5:28 PM
🚨 Call for Participants 🚨: I am currently looking to recruit radiologists for a study I am conducting on the Governance of AI in Radiology. Voluntary participation in this study involves a 40 minute- 1 hour interview (on Microsoft Teams). Link to sign up here: calendly.com/b-ganesh/phd...
📢 Thrilled to co-convene a panel on ‘Re-Ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice and Governance’ (panel 54) at the 2025 STS Italia 🌞
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
stsitalia.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:58 PM
📢 Thrilled to co-convene a panel on ‘Re-Ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice and Governance’ (panel 54) at the 2025 STS Italia 🌞
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
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AI hype is making AI researchers forget painfully learned lessons core to the field.
There's an emerging cope that progress in capabilities isn't slowing down—it's just invisible as benchmarks are saturated; vibe checks are useless because models are now superhuman so we can't perceive improvement.
There's an emerging cope that progress in capabilities isn't slowing down—it's just invisible as benchmarks are saturated; vibe checks are useless because models are now superhuman so we can't perceive improvement.
December 11, 2024 at 12:58 PM
AI hype is making AI researchers forget painfully learned lessons core to the field.
There's an emerging cope that progress in capabilities isn't slowing down—it's just invisible as benchmarks are saturated; vibe checks are useless because models are now superhuman so we can't perceive improvement.
There's an emerging cope that progress in capabilities isn't slowing down—it's just invisible as benchmarks are saturated; vibe checks are useless because models are now superhuman so we can't perceive improvement.
Reposted by Benedetta Catanzariti
#academicjobs BTW I’m looking for a postdoc to join our interdisciplinary “Performing AI” team in spring ‘25 for up to 4 years. Are you interested in Critical AI Studies? Please consider applying.
More information here 👉 human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news...
NB: This is NOT a remote position.
More information here 👉 human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news...
NB: This is NOT a remote position.
November 29, 2024 at 6:03 PM
#academicjobs BTW I’m looking for a postdoc to join our interdisciplinary “Performing AI” team in spring ‘25 for up to 4 years. Are you interested in Critical AI Studies? Please consider applying.
More information here 👉 human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news...
NB: This is NOT a remote position.
More information here 👉 human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news...
NB: This is NOT a remote position.
Wrote a short reflection for 4S Backchannels on my experience as an STS researcher joining the teaching team of an undergrad core computer science course. Here, I discuss the politics of curriculum and ask how we can chart new paths towards reflexive socio-technical knowledge production:
The politics of curriculum: Inflecting knowledge in computer science educationSearchMobile Menu
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January 24, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Wrote a short reflection for 4S Backchannels on my experience as an STS researcher joining the teaching team of an undergrad core computer science course. Here, I discuss the politics of curriculum and ask how we can chart new paths towards reflexive socio-technical knowledge production:
Reposted by Benedetta Catanzariti
Looking forward to this panel on December 6th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-is-dig...
How is digital transformation changing the future of work and skills?
Digital Economy and Society Discussion Series #1
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November 28, 2023 at 5:45 PM
Looking forward to this panel on December 6th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-is-dig...
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The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating these messages so that the world can see the humanity buried under the rubble and the spirit of resistance of Palestinians.
To help maximize their reach, we're republishing them here.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/15/letters-from-gaza/
To help maximize their reach, we're republishing them here.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/15/letters-from-gaza/
Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine
The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel ramps up its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing th...
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October 15, 2023 at 9:01 PM
The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating these messages so that the world can see the humanity buried under the rubble and the spirit of resistance of Palestinians.
To help maximize their reach, we're republishing them here.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/15/letters-from-gaza/
To help maximize their reach, we're republishing them here.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/15/letters-from-gaza/