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By Luis Landa Nearly a year ago, I embarked on a journey to build, document, and deploy a solar powered website and server. This idea was born out of a desire to explore the intersection between ecology and technology to engage with sustainable computing and low-tech...
By Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding, Lab Manager Come the new semester, we as employees at ITU are expected to be returning to our offices after spending close to 1,5 years working from home, or at least under different restrictions of access to our workplace. During...
Written by Casper Frohn Introduction: Concluding a Journey In my previous blogpost, I presented a theoretical foundation to showcase my journey in exploring the role of hashtags in activism. I argued how democracy is not merely a set of institutional...
Written by Rikke Haslund Jønsson As a university student, you are told that you are responsible for your learning. This is both my personal experience and a collective experience amongst my friends and fellow students. There are parts of the learning experience in...
By Rachel Douglas-Jones and Luísa Reis Castro Going abroad during a PhD.... In Denmark, PhD students are required during their studies to complete a period of study abroad. Depending on their caring responsibilities and networks, this might be in commuting...
Power Through Hashtags: Investigating Hashtags in Activism (and Reflecting on How to Do So) Written by Casper Frohn Opening Reflections: An Unnerving Journey In this blogpost we will take a journey into a world of abstract ideas and concepts, such as democracy and...
By Luis Landa The very relationship of IT or more precisely consumer technology and our eco-systems was at the core of my thinking and research for my master thesis. Driven by a search for a way to incorporate ecological thinking into IT and our digital lives, I came...
Written by Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding, Mace Ojala, and Rachel Douglas-Jones Over the Spring of 2021, members of the ETHOS Lab joined together online to participate in the three-part event series Playing with...
What is a research sprint? Participating in “Digital Ethics in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 & Access to Education and Learning Spaces” Written by Benedict Lang In Autumn 2020, Harward’s Berkman Klein Center hosted a research sprint that convened a global cohort of...
What makes a lab a lab? By Benedict Lang From the mid of August until the end of November, I had the chance to be a visiting scholar in the ETHOS Lab. I was working mostly on my master thesis about hackathons and how they promise solutions that they do not deliver....