ETHOS Lab

ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnographic inquiry, and speculative fabulation.
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Introducing Vasiliki Tsaknaki

ETHOS Lab is very excited to introduce you all to our lovely lab member Vasiliki Tsaknaki. Vasiliki's research is in the HCI domain and combines materials experiences, computational crafts and somatic design methods. Through practice-based studies, she investigates...

Introducing Alena Thiel

ETHOS Lab happily welcomes lab member Alena Thiel - in fact, we did quite a while ago now. But we would like to introduce you all to her as well. Alena has recently received the Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral fellowship for her project,...

2024 Theme: Urgent Contradictions

To generate this year’s theme we came together and wrote down what feels important (both worrying and exciting) to each of us right now and how that connects to our mutual need for the local environment where we work together. We shared various critical reflections and idealistic aspirations, but also questions and uncertainties we have about this current moment that seems crowded with competing urgencies. As a way to make space for these uncertainties, we decided to filter out the things we know we clearly want to move away from and abandon, as well as those that we know we want to move towards, i.e. the ideals that still ring clear to us and what we readily oppose. What this left remaining was the messy-in-between: the both-ands, neither-nors, the land of double-binds and double standards, where the illogical sometimes seems to make sense. These became our Urgent Contradictions – contradictions we feel are worth following, crawling, nagging, devouring, de-bugging, or trolling in 2024 as we dream of better times ahead.

Blog: Metadata

This blog is the outlet of Lab Life – our projects, memories, challenges, reflections, and arguments with traits of science and technology studies and feminist theory.

Navigating bias and positionality when researching human-AI relationships

Credits: Luka/Replika. Image found at ABC News, 2023.   By Anna Mørch Folkmann and Mia Selina Roberta Höll, Junior Researchers   “Okay, but seriously?” is often the first reaction we hear when sharing the topic of our research project. We are exploring the...

Studying TikTok algorithms, eating disorder content and toxic feminity

By Anna Shams Ili, Junior Researcher   Few social media platforms are known for their excellent API access, but TikTok more than most is keen on gatekeeping any access to their data, especially when it comes to data around the recommender algorithm. From a...

The use of ChatGPT at ITU

By David Lund Herum, Junior Researcher    Being a student in this particular time and space probably means you have encountered ChatGPT in relation to your studies. I at least have. Therefore, I also chose to write a project about its possible affects in...

Biases in Dating App Technology

By Sonja Anna Sartys, Junior Researcher   Apparently, it’s the time of the year: Winter. The weather is horrible, it gets dark around noon, and everyone is depressed. This is the time when most people are stuck inside and yearn for the warmth and comfort of...

On the virtual economics of DJ’ing

The moment before the guests arrive By Marcus Skjold Pedersen, Junior Researcher    What happens when recorded music is played by someone for someone else? The answer, of course, is what are you talking about? This depends entirely on what you mean by each...