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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 8d

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Sep 5

@nannathylstrup.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social @esmeec.bsky.social @frederikschade.bsky.social

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Sep 5

Panel 1: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro...

Panel 2: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro...

Panel 3: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro...

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · Sep 4

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!

Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling.

Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.

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Will Orr @willo.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

Ghosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures - Will Orr, 2025

Absences are inescapable in data. Data collection always focuses on some elements while occluding others. Yet, how absences are considered and recorded within d...

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Jul 23

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/...

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netpreserve.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 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

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 18

Deadline for proposals July 27

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Jun 20

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 ✨✨✨

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨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.

Event poster: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory, June 19, 14-15.30. University of Copenhagen.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · Jun 6

@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

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Jun 3

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Jun 3

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Jun 3

www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/

The Datafied Web – 6th RESAW conference

www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de

katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Jun 3

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 🤖

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · May 27

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · May 23

This afternoon! 🌟✨

Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · May 23

Looking so much forward to listening to Jessica Lapp’s @erc.europa.eu Data Loss lecture later today @ucph.bsky.social - all are welcome but seats are limited ! Brilliant organising by @ktmac.bsky.social artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/dal...

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ECHOlab @echodtu.bsky.social · May 20

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]

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · May 13

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...

Seeing AI – a series of research and public engagement events - Digital Society Research Cluster

Understanding the impact of AI on social, cultural and political life has been at the heart of our new initiative – the AI Literacy working group. “AI literacy” (or even […]

digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk

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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · May 13

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...

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · May 13

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

"This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it.

In her Nobel lecture in 1993, the writer Toni Morrison observed:

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek—it must be rejected, altered and exposed."

The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice. To signal that certain boundary lines have been crossed. To insist that advisory roles must expand knowledge and be more than appendages to predetermined decisions."

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · May 12

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)

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