The Metadata Blog
We love data and technology in all its forms, figures and cultures. What we love even more, is to write about it. This blog is the outlet of Lab Life - our projects, challenges, reflections and arguments with traits of science and technology studies and feminist theory. Metadata is everything around data. Data trying to explain data by making it specific and situated.
Small Commons: building care from scratch
The experience of caring for and being cared for puts us in touch with parts of existence that are real and genuine — and perhaps the inadequacy of our language for it is itself a political problem, a symptom of how thoroughly care has been organised out of public life and into private silence.
Defanging access, reimagining Snakes and Ladders
The Lab just published a new zine! Based on a recent workshop around disability and access, it reimagines the game of snakes and ladders as something much more slithering and slippery.
The invisible work of being digital with a disability in Denmark
The design of digital technologies increases accessibility for some but impairs it for others, depending on the nature of their disability.
Orienting the Research Process through Crip Spacetime
We inhabit crip spacetime collectively in hard moments, but also in the slow, everyday practices of working alongside each other (a.k.a. body doubling), learning together, and sharing resources.
Exploring the Tensions in Care
Digital gestures may function as connective fabric within care networks, maintaining relational bonds across distance while remaining embedded within (yet resistive of) larger structures.
Exploring Gendered Emotions in Friends Using Natural Language Processing
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