June 2017
Join Datasprint, BBQ and Pink!
YOU are invited to the yearly ETHOS Lab Summer Barbecue on Tuesday the 20th June for fun and games. If you bring your preferred food and drinks, then we will make sure there is a hot barbecue and ice for a (hopefully) warm summer night. Give us a hint here about your plans of joining so we can fire up as many barbecues as it takes.
Professor Sarah Pink from the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia will be in Malmø giving a talk on Data Anxieties and has invited us to join in on the 20th June from 10-12. We will be going across the waters and hurrying back to have the yearly summer barbecue same day. Anyone interested, please join!
A datasprint is coming up on June 19 from 9-14 as part of Per Nagbøl's ETHOS Lab project. The sprinting will entail testing the limits and potentials of a new facebook scraper that Assistant Professor Pedro Ferreira has developed in preparation for the course Navigating Complexity, Mapping & Visualisation. It will involve scraping, visualising and making ethnographic inquiries into particular themes and how to study them on this specific social media platform. There are no pre-requisites for attending other than bringing your own computer and registering beforehand.
Relevant to all of us, this month's blog is asking who are we - the digitial citizen? This is a blogified version of PhD Jannick Schou and Associate Professor Morten Hjelholt's research articles published recently in Critical Policy Studies and Journal for Global Sustainable Information Society. Jannick and Morten are both part of the Data as Relation Research Project and the article critically reflects on the configuration, framing and portraying of digital citizenship in governance. Enjoy!
Prominent visits from Professor Helen Verran and Strategist Melissa Gregg from Intel Corporation are still echoing in the lab. Playful Pitch sessions were available for faculty and students giving them an opportunity to receive feedback from Professor Verran. In her talk 'Post-truth???', Verran challenged ETHOS Lab on the concept of datasprint as epistemic and robust practice. If you missed the talk, do watch the available video.
Melissa Gregg's talk The Productivity Imperative was inspiring as a philosophical underpinning and provocation of productivity, temporality and its delegation to management technologies as well as consequences thereof. We were very pleased that the talk attracted a diverse audience, including ITU management. The talk was recorded and we are looking forward to news on the publication of Gregg's upcoming book 'Counterproductive: A Brief History of Time Management'. Co-head of Lab Marisa Cohn and Gregg's seminar on 'ethnographic interpretation in the age of big data and telemetry' spurred interesting questions and reflections on methodologies and strategies as to how social science may contribute to discussions in a world enamored by and fearful of automation.
ETHOS Lab was very well represented at this years 3rd Nordic Science and Technology Conference stirring interesting discussions on experimental methods and the lab as an entity in an organisational setting. Digital traces on Twitter are available at #NordicSTS and the extensive tweeting even resulted in #NordicSTS being listed as top trending Danish hashtags on June 2!!
If we do not see you at the datasprint or the summer barbecue then we wish you a happy summer! We are looking forward to preparing the next semester, a new round of the course Navigating Complexity and hopefully welcoming many more inspiring junior researchers.
Summer Greetings from,
ETHOS Lab
