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...
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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...
Brilliance Bias: Differences in gender perception at ITU
By Chris Aftzidis & Pau Victoria Menshikoff, Junior Researchers Initial project idea and first attempts Our initial idea was to build a network depicting references in academic papers. We wanted to analyse whether there is a difference in how people of...
Reclaiming through feminist methods: Stories from fashion, academia, urban planning and the arts
Written by Marisa Cohn, edited by Henriette Friis. Reflections from the Feminist Futures Copenhagen Panel Reclaiming through feminist methods: Stories from fashion, academia, urban planning and the arts On a sunny Friday afternoon on April 21st, four...
Tarot reading for the lab in 2023
By Marisa Cohn What does it mean to act as “a lab”? This has been a fundamental question we have faced as a collective of researchers and as an institutional unit within the University. This pertains to the question of our ambitions and our remit. The lab has always...
“Maybe it’s not about gender, but her personality”
By Chris Aftzidis & Paula Victoria Menshikoff, Junior Researchers Are you ever out by yourself in public and you start imagining what lives the people around you are living? What their hobbies and interests are, whether they have a partner or kids, or what...
An inquiry into music consumption in the 21st century
Image from Dall-E 2 By Tristan Massimo Carl Vonet, Junior Researcher Music has been an integral part of human life since, well, as long as we can remember as a species. It brings forth emotions in us in a way that we can’t quite understand. How we came...
‘Compassionate Poetry’: Dissecting the rhetoric of online ‘masculinity’
Illustration: Lehel Kovacs By Johanne Engel Aaen, Junior Researcher On a Saturday in October I am sitting at home, in my bed, getting ready to watch a YouTube video. Nothing out of the ordinary in that scenario. Still, I am having this particular...