Digital Self-Care
2021-10-29 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | IT University, Rued Langgaardsvej 7, Kbh S, 2300, Denmark
Join an hour of
cleaning your data tracks,
installing alternative apps,
securing your data,
and care for your digital self!

ETHOS Lab is inviting for a collective digital self-care, where we are checking in with our digital self and compulsive behaviours as well as setting time aside to simply get things done!
We will utilise the generous and expansive Data Detox Kit giftet by the Berlin-based organisation, Tactical Tech, to go through our data tracks, password protections, and alternative privacy-informed browsers, mail accounts etc .
Bring your friends and devises and come by our workshop for a deep cleanse!
We will host this event twice during Autumn.
Sept. 23, 17.00-18.00
Studenterhuset
Oct. 29, 16.00-17.00
ITU, room TBA

**Postponed ** Automated Transcription as an Analytical Practice?
2021-11-05 12:00 - 13:30 | ETHOS Lab, 3A30
Due to low sign-up, we will postpone the workshop.
We have experienced an interest from colleagues internal and beyond ITU, and will reinvite both students and staff in Spring 22 for a workshop of critically assessing automated transcription software.
Stay tuned!
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In this workshop, we will dig deep into the consequences and possibilities of Automated Transcription Software (ATS). The process of transcribing your materiel can be tedious and daunting, so no wonder researchers around the world are thinking about ways to make this process more smoothly and less time consuming.
However, what are the implications when we upload our files to a software?
What does this automatization mean for our relationship to the empirical material?
How may this affect the analytical outcome?
In this workshop, we take transcription seriously as an analytical practice, often forgotten and dreaded, however, greatly important for the research.
Post.doc. Stina Hasse Jørgensen and ETHOS Lab Manager Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding will facilitate, and together we will critically assess the current available ATS and collectively discuss possible ways of using the software in a reflective manner.
The workshop will consist of a mix of group-based work, collective discussions, short presentations, and small talk over vegan break-snacks. You will only need yourself and your laptop.
Hope to see both new and familiar faces!

Argh, where’s my data?! Seminar on missing data
2021-11-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Room 4A58, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark
It seems that data are everywhere – except the times when they aren’t there! Data can sometimes be absent, invisible, gone, not found, missing or simply dead. In a research process these absences and invisibilities can cause disillusionment, confusion, frustration, anxiety, relief, a laugh, and a whole lot of work.

Welcome to an afternoon about data which aren’t where they are expected to be. The workshop starts with a short presentations and panel of two fresh research papers about absent (Kjær, Ojala, and Henriksen forthcoming) and invisible data (Neumayer, Rossi, and Struthers 2021), followed by discussion with the participants. Bring your own stories about missing data.

Time and place
Monday the 22nd of November, 2021 from 12:00 to 14:00.
Room 4A58 at IT University of Copenhagen.
Facilitators: Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, Mace Ojala, and Line Henriksen

Register by sending an email to ethos@itu.dk by November 15th

Programme

Welcome, introduction and sandwich lunch.

Short papers presentations.

Panel discussion.

Workshop with your own absent and invisible data.

Workshop discussion.

Paper abstracts
Neumayer, C., Rossi, L., & Struthers, D. M. (2021). Invisible Data: A Framework for Understanding Visibility Processes in Social Media Data. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984472
Social media data are increasingly used to study a variety of social phenomena. This development is based on the assumption that digital traces left on social media can provide insights into the nature of human interaction. In this research, we turn our attention to what remains invisible in research based on social media data. Using Andrea Brighenti’s work on “social visibility” as a point of departure, we unpack data invisibilities, as they are created within four dimensions: people and intentionality, technologies and tools, accessibility and form, and meaning and imaginaries. We introduce the notion of quasi-visible data as an intermediary between visible and invisible data highlighting the processual character of data invisibilities. With this conceptual framework, we contribute to developing a more reflective and ethical field of research into the study of social phenomena based on social media data. We conclude by arguing that distancing ourselves from the assumption that all social media data are visible and focusing on the invisible will enhance our understanding of digital data.

Kjær, K. M., Ojala, M., & Henriksen, L. (forthcoming). Absent Data: Engagements with Absence in a Twitter Collection Process. Catalyst.

This paper considers the ways in which silences and absences are a central part of research that relies on automated data collection from social media or the internet. In recent years, automated data collection driven or supported research methods have gained popularity within the social sciences and humanities. With this increase in popularity, it becomes ever more pertinent to consider how to engage with digital data, and how both engagement and data are situated, messy, and contingent. Based on experiences with “missing” data, this paper mobilizes the framework of hauntology to make sense of what relationships may be built with missing data and how silences haunt research practices. Ultimately, we argue that it is possible to reimagine absent data not as a limitation but as an invitation to reflect on and establish new methods for working with automated data collections.

Workshop: Critical Technological Pedagogies as Future Making
2021-12-10 09:00 - 14:00 | ScrollBar, Rued Langgaardsvej 7, Kbh S, 2300, Denmark
ETHOS Lab will host a workshop to explore how the approaches we take in pedagogical design also tell us about the kind of digital future we want. The many decisions that go into building a learning environment for critical reflection on digital technologies include developing syllabi and learning exercises, creating spaces for formal and informal education, making choices of coding languages in coding clubs, etc. In these decisions technology education, we also imagine the digitalized societies of the future and the types of digitally savvy or computationally literate people we want youth to become.
The workshop will explore how the critical technological pedagogies we design take up youth as a site for imagining Denmark’s digital future. We will do this through a combination of storytelling and prototyping around “figures” that draw together ideals and values for the future. Participants will be invited to bring reflections on their teaching or education research experience.

Panelists

Samantha Breslin, Anthropology, Copenhagen University
Peter Danholt, Culture and Communication, Aarhus University
Josef Nguyen, Critical Media Studies, University of Texas Dallas

Practical details

Friday 10 December 2021, 9:00-14:00 (lunch included)
ScrollBar, IT University of Copenhagen
Seats limited and RSVP required to sgah@itu.dk

Workshop: Open PhD Calls
2022-01-20 11:00 - 12:00 | ETHOS Lab, 3A30
Ever wondered how to read a PhD call for the important information? Wanted to apply but weren’t sure how to formulate a PhD proposal?

In ETHOS we are running a workshop tailored to the IT University of Copenhagen’s Open Call, where we will walk through the elements of a call for a PhD. The session takes place on January 20th, 11.00-12.00, and involves hands on work with open PhD calls, and a chance to work on your own ideas.
The workshop is facilitated by Rachel Douglas-Jones and Casper Blum Frohn, and they will provide you with workshop materials that help generate a feasible research proposal for a PhD project.
The workshop will take place in this online meeting space.

Register by sending a mail to ethos@itu.dk by January 17th.
