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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,...

2023 Theme: Shifting Inevitabilities

With this theme, we hope to focus on some of the shifts that will impact our research interests over the next 12 months. With the ongoing demise of Twitter, the inevitability of it being an appropriate platform to conduct research with will decline. Technological determinism, while fallacious, performs in part through the narratives of inevitability – that certain platforms or technologies will always operate our public square, that the future is one of unlimited computational power, that AI will economize our welfare system. But when bubbles burst, and platforms enter end of life, these inevitabilities shift and transmute opening up new telos that can draw us into new narratives.   

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.

Ada Lovelace Day at Osaka University

Text and photos by Rachel Douglas-Jones.   On October 12th at Osaka University in Japan, an ETHOS-spirited Ada Lovelace day unfolded as part of a visiting fellowship held by Rachel Douglas-Jones during her sabbatical. The event had two parts: first, a critical...

Secrecy Sells Part II: Understanding Consumer Perspectives in the Privacy Market

Image Artist: Jeremy Nguyen/jeremywins By Ahmet Akkoc, Junior Researcher    In a hurry? You can watch a video summary of this blogpost here. > “I am a student, how am I supposed to pay for anything? Let alone privacy?” These were the words of an...

A foray into the world of music recommender systems

By Tristan Vonet, Junior Researcher    At the beginning of the Autumn semester 2022, during a class called ‘Navigating Complexity’, I was introduced to ETHOS lab and their Junior Researcher program (JRP). If you are reading this blogpost, you most likely...

Can speculative data visualizations help us challenge gender gaps in STEM?

By Louie Meyer, Junior Researcher   Can you imagine a future in which no distinction of gender exists? A future where people hive in clusters and are screened as to which working area their skills apply? Can you imagine a future where the current patriarchy is...

Mapping Exercise Turned Data Collection

By Emilie Mørch Groth, Junior Researcher    The recap I want to briefly take you back to the beginning of this project. Driven by an interest in public use of data and AI, and with an aim to build a better understanding of publicly used AI solutions and the...