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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Sep 5

New sociology! In "Aging with Imagination," Colter J. Uscola covers @julianejarke.bsky.social and @helenmanchester.bsky.social's research, published in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, on participatory futuring workshops for older people dreaming of what's next contexts.org/articles/aging-with-imagination/

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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 24d

I have just arrived in 🚊Graz, where we are meeting for the (late) summer ☀️retreat of our @com-ai.bsky.social

Until Wednesday, we want to discuss what #research has been carried out in the projects over the last 6️⃣ months, what the challenges of #triangulating #methods 🔣 are,

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Jul 16

Our latest "In Brief" summaries of new #sociology research fea. work on wildfires and out-migration, discrimination and policy preferences, structuring family lending, morals and the legal profession, aging with imagination, and more! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness @ewafworkshop.bsky.social · Jul 2

Day 3 of #EWAF! We started off with a great keynote by @julianejarke.bsky.social
on the black boxes of algorithmic fairness and their "monsters".

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Program is live!
The #CAISConference features a keynote by Prof. Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social‬, @uni-graz.at
🎤 Highlights include panels with Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture & Science of NRW, & top researchers on academic freedom & living labs.
www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · Mar 5

Can uncertainty be visualised in educational data dashboards, if so, how and with what (pedagogical, social) implications? With @julianejarke.bsky.social, we found no uncertainty #dataviz in #edtech (no surprise), but examples in other fields (hence the title!)
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RGATI...

Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations

AI-powered predictive systems have high margins of error. However, data visualisations of algorithmic systems in education and other social fields tend to visualise certainty, thus invisibilising t...

www.tandfonline.com

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Robert @robertboni.bsky.social · Feb 22

Am Abend vor der Wahl dreht der Protofaschist und Antidemokrat #Merz vollkommen durch und beleidigt alle linken, sie hätten nicht mehr alle Tassen IM SCHRANK. 😳😳 Das ist unfassbar und eine skandalöse Entgleisung.
Das ist Trumpismus, dem zeigen wir es jetzt richtig, auf die Barrikaden! ✊🏼
#FCKMRZ

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · Feb 19

www.koreaherald.com/article/1042...

[Grace Kao] US blocks words, targets sociology, society

Politically. Historical. Gender. Female. Women. Race and Ethnicity. Barriers. Cultural Differences. Equality. Inequality. Socio-Economic Status. LGBT. These are words that appear regularly in sociolog...

www.koreaherald.com

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Jonathan Sachse @jsachse.bsky.social · Feb 2

Die nächste fragwürdige Spende an die AfD: Mehr als 2,3 Mio. € von einem FPÖ-nahen Mann aus Österreich für über 6.000 Plakate, die zusätzlich zur offiziellen AfD-Kampagne in den kommenden Tagen sichtbar werden sollen. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Großspende: AfD soll Plakataktion in Millionenhöhe erhalten

Nach Informationen von WDR und NDR soll die AfD eine dritte Großspende innerhalb nur weniger Tage erhalten. Die Spende wirft Fragen auf, denn sie soll von einem ehemaligen Funktionär der rechtspopulis...

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Jan 22

Wiener:innen und alle in der Nähe: am 10. März um 17.30 diskutieren wir künstliche Intelligenz im öffentlichen Sektor: www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran..., mit @allhutter.bsky.social @annekaun.bsky.social @julianejarke.bsky.social P Bieglbauer S Büchner & österreichische UNESCO-Kommission!

Künstliche Intelligenz im öffentlichen Sektor

Der Fachbeirat „Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz“ der Österreichischen UNESCO-Kommission lädt in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der ÖAW und der ÖAW-Kommission Demokratie i...

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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Jan 20

We'll also be hosting a panel (with Andreas Bischof Daniel López Gómez and Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer) on futures-making and ageing at the STS Graz conference (5th to 7th May 2025). If you are interested in joining us, the CfP is open until 31st January! stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-f...

Call for Abstracts – STS Conf Graz

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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Jan 20

We draw on data from a series of design fiction workshops with older adults, civil society organisations and civil servants in Germany, Austria and the UK.

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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Jan 20

Central is the question of whether and how we can actually think (and imagine) outside of powerful anticipation regimes around the increasing spread and relevance of data-driven systems and/or ageist assumptions about how to ‘fix’ the problem of demographic ageing.

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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Jan 20

With the paper we join others in their call to resist and challenge regimes of anticipations that suggest our futures are inevitably linked to certain imaginaries about data-driven systems. We explore how we might open up futures-making to different people in relation to futures of ageing.

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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Jan 20

🤓 New Publication: *Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring* in *Big Data & Society* by myself and @helenmanchester.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#anticipation #futures #ageing #socgerontec #criticaldatastudies

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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · Dec 20

Our @zemki.bsky.social research report is out just in time for the end of the year! If you want to find out more about what we have researched in the past year and what we are planning in our @com-ai.bsky.social research unit, then it's worth taking a look!

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zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/out-now-z...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Dec 20

Today is publication day for the new book - Critical Data Studies. But since my copies are stuck in Holyhead parcel pileup & open access version not yet available on publisher website I'm saving marketing stuff to new year. As a launch day it's a bit of an anti-climax! But it's no longer 'in press'

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Otherlandbookshop Berlin @otherlandberlin.bsky.social · Dec 21

Space Crone
Ursula K. Le Guin
and So Mayer (Editor), Sarah Shin (Editor)

For the first time, Space Crone brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Dec 20

Earlier this month NZ’s “center-right coalition gov’t said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million Marsden Fund, the nation’s sole funding source for fundamental science, to ‘research with economic benefits.’ Moreover, the fund would no longer support any social sciences and humanities research” 😢

Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences

Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy

www.science.org

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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Dec 19

🔮 @annekaun.bsky.social will give a keynote on #AI in the #publicsector on 10th March in #Vienna. Afterwards we'll discuss in a panel with @allhutter.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social Stefanie Büchner and Peter Biegelbauer. #UNESCO @oeaw.bsky.social

www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

Künstliche Intelligenz im öffentlichen Sektor

Der UNESCO Fachbeirat "Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz" lädt in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der ÖAW und der ÖAW-Kommission „Demokratie in Digitalen Gesellschaften“ zu ...

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ZeMKI @zemki.bsky.social · Dec 6

"Die großen Utopien der digitalen Vernetzung haben sich nicht bewahrheitet." ZeMKI-Mitglied Dr. Leif Kramp ist Ko-Autor einer neuen Monographie zur digitalen Mediennutzung in Zeiten von Kriegen, Krisen & KI und fordert zielgerichtete digitale Resilienzstrategien.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/neues-buch-r...

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linnetelwin.bsky.social @linnetelwin.bsky.social · Dec 3

@mereln.bsky.social and I are hiring a PhD! tiu.nu/22585. Come work with us at TILT on reconfiguring AI governance to be more public-facing, more responsive and more reflective of lived experiences.

Job opening: PhD Researcher on Decentralising AI Governance (22585)

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Nov 27

To what extent can public datasets address questions related to urgent issues? We're exploring this with "datatesting" a new @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social project with @databarometer.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social @esimperl.bsky.social @odihq.bsky.social & more! jonathangray.org/2024/11/05/d...

A multicoloured grid populated by question marks and various emojis (e.g. flower, rainbow flag, ballot box, scales, house, hospital, butterfly..).

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Nov 26

First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...

bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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linnetelwin.bsky.social @linnetelwin.bsky.social · Nov 26

Re-sharing this to tag Critical Data/AI colleagues who I’d love to see do their own regional starter packs. @ubisurv.net already made one, @spdesouza.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @derechosdigitales.bsky.social @fleurjohns.bsky.social?

go.bsky.app/Gi8YKJ1

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