Other News & Info
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Imagining Communities Through Data
For further pondering in these abnormal times, we recommend this article about the politics of counting and data.
Podcast Recommendation
You've probably heard it a million times already, climate breakdown is a result of excessive use of (seemingly) resources on a finite planet. But what about alternatives to the present system of organizing society?
Julia Steinberger and Elena Hofferberth of the University of Leeds take us through the empirical evidence currently proposed by alternatives to capitalism (from reform to radical ones) as well as recent developments such as the Green New Deal in the U.S and Just Transition proposals in Europe.
Seeing as IT plays a key role in both the consumption and production in our current system and likely in future systems. Having an overview of the alternatives and propositions can be helpful to situate our expertise.
Digital Methods Initiative Summer School
Amsterdam University
29 June - 3 July 2020 - Online via Zoom
Social media manipulation: from artificial amplification and inauthentic behaviour to deplatforming and counter-speech
Social media platform rationales for demonetising and deplatforming — terms for removing and downgrading an individual account or content — are evolving, as are the cultural debates, across North America and Europe, concerning their desirability and efficacy compared, for example, to ‘counter-speech’ or responding rather than banning. This year’s Summer School reflects upon what counts as artificial amplification, inauthentic behaviour, organised hate, a dangerous individual and other categories of accounts and content that have been put into play to justify take downs. It seeks to develop research protocols to study removals and the politics of deletion and delisting. Specifically, it strives to organise projects that critically assess content review and moderation across platform types that result in removal or down listing. It also examines alternatives to removal, such as Wikipedia's flame retardation strategy for dealing with trolls, and introduces means to study them. Application deadline 10 June https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiAbout
PhD/Job Calls
Research Assistant/ PhD Candidate in Organisation Studies to research the impact of AI technologies, algorithms and datafication on everyday life - see here
PhD position for the research project DATA4ALL at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen - see here
Studentship A Data Ethics Framework for Agriculture read more
Social scientific doctoral student focused on transparency and explainability in a medical AI project see here
Three PhD positions at the University of Bologna for the research project 'The Hau of Finance: impact investing and the Globalization of Social and Environmental Sustainability'. Application details for global health and migration and climate finance and fintech read more here
Five PhD studentships at The Edinburgh Futures Institute supporting research into the ethical challenges posed by the growing use of data and artificial intelligence. Funded by global investment firm Baillie Gifford. Read more..
PhD scholarship in Public Communication of Artifical Intelligence in the Responsible Technology Group at DTU. Read more..
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