DATACTIVE

The second day of the DATACTIVE closing workshop, hosted online by SPUI25, focused on artistic responses to datafication and mass data collection. The DATACTIVE team has interviewed many civil society actors from the field of digital rights, privacy, and technology activism. Artists take part in this field, but often they… Read more

Teaser for the event ‘Data Activism Futures’ (June 29, 2021) which summarises the 5+ years of collective work on the DATACTIVE project (data-activism.net), funded by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 639379). The video features Niels ten Oever (PhD alumnus), Becky Kazansky (PhD candidate), Guillén Torres (PhD candidate), Davide… Read more

When: March 1-3, 2021 The BigBang project will be working on improving its tool for mailinglist analysis at the IETF 110 Hackathon. BigBang is an open source research project that studies collaboration and contention in digital infrastructure projects and governance institutions. We do this by combining data science techniques with… Read more

On January the 27th, Stefania will contribute to the event ‘Tech-Based States of Emergency: Public Responses and Societal implications’ organised by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She will join Brenda Jimris-Rekve (Basic Internet Foundation) and Sean Boots (Canadian Digital Services) as speakers, with Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Kristoffer Lidén from PRIO… Read more

On November 12-13, Davide and Stefania will host a paper development workshop where the prospective authors of the special issue Contentious Data: The Social Movement Society in the Age of Datafication will have the chance to discuss their draft papers. The issue is edited by Stefania Milan, Davide Beraldo and… Read more

The University of Amsterdam has a new Research Priority Area dedicated to exploring “Global Digital Cultures”. Global Digital Cultures is a interdisciplinary research community for comparing and analyzing the profound changes brought about by digitization around the globe. Read more here. The kick-off event of the new Research Priority Area… Read more

On 1-2 February, Stefania will attend the 2.Dh5 Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She will give a presentation on “Surveillance capiralism and the future of data activism” , with a Q&A section (date and time will be announced on the 2.Dh5 Festival website). About the presentation: Surveillance capitalism is grounded on… Read more

On 25 January 2020, Stefania will attend the workshop “Contesto urbano. Strumenti e pratiche per deostruire il Modello Milano” organised by OffTopic Lab in Milan, Italy. She will participate in the rountable “La città ambigua: presente e futuro della metropoli tra decoro, sorveglianza, greenwashing (The ambiguous city: present and future of… Read more

Report on Public Interest Internet Infrastructure workshop held at Harvard University in September 2019 by Corinne Cath-Speth and Niels ten Oever Introduction Surveillance-based business model[s] force people to make a Faustian bargain, whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human… Read more

By Becky Kazansky and Guillen Torres Intro On September 15th 2019, DATACTIVE held a one-day workshop following on the heels of the Data Power conference in Bremen, Germany. We were kindly hosted by the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKIi) of the University of Bremen. Over this day,… Read more

The topic of the Kyiv Biennial this year is ‘the Black Cloud’. The title reminiscences the contaminated cloud that traveled over Europe after the Chernobyl disaster and invites us to reflect on the role of technology. At the Kyiv Biennial, the critical media scholar Svitlana Matviyenko organized a two-day symposium… Read more

On April 5-7, Stefania will attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. She will speak in the panel ‘Facing the challenges of a datafied society’, on Saturday at 5pm. She will join on stage Philip Di Salvo (Institute of Media and Journalism USI), Colin Porlezza (Department of Journalism City University, London),… Read more

DATACTIVE PI Stefania Milan will participate in the event “We, creators of AI” at Science Park on March 14. The event was is organized by the University of Amsterdam, in the frame of ERC=Science², an EU-funded campaign aiming to promote the research funded by the European research Council. Read more. Read more

On February 21, Becky Kazansky will be responding to Jamie Susskind during an event for the presentation of his book Future Politics. Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech. During the evening, the author will present his insights on how digital technology is and will further transform our society… Read more

How would datafication look like seen… ‘upside down’? What questions would we ask? What concepts, theories and methods would we embrace or have to devise? These questions are at the core of the two-day research seminar ‘Big Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda’, scheduled to take place at the University of… Read more

DATACTIVE is proud to announce a talk by Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Ulises A. Mejias (State University of New York at Oswego) in the framework of the DATACTIVE Speaker Series and in occasion of the Big Data from the South workshop. The talk, entitled “Can Data… Read more

by Lonneke van der Velden Last month, I was invited to be a respondent (together with Harriet Bergman) for the launch of Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter’s latest book, Organization After Social Media. The book is a collection of essays which re-interrogate the concerns and contributions of social movements and… Read more

DATACTIVE PI Stefania Milan has taken part in the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, in Montreal (Canada), October 10-13. This year’s conference theme was “Transnational materialities”. Among others, she presented a work in progress, co-authored with Miren Gutierrez (Universidad de Deusto), on the social consequences of engagement… Read more

Stefania and Guillén will be present this week at EASST 2018: Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society Together, in Lancaster, UK. If you are around, drop by our panel “After data activism: reactions to civil society’s engagement with data” on Saturday morning (9:30) at the Elizabeth Livingston Lecture Theatre. We… Read more

In July 4-5, DATACTIVE has gathered the Advisory Board members for a sharing & feedback workshop. Participants include Anita Say Chan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Chris Csikszentmihályi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute), Ronald Deibert (University of Toronto), Seda Gürses (KU Leuven), Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths, University of London), Hishant Shah (ArtEZ) … and the DATACTIVE… Read more

Stefania has been invited to participate in the keynote panel on “techno science from below” at the 7th conference of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) Italia association, in Padova in June 14-16. Check out the conference program. Read more

Stefania will present on “Questioning data universalism” with Emiliano Treré (Cardiff University) and she will be chairing the session on Data Activism (14.00 – 15.30 Parallel Sessions B). Becky will present on “It Depends On Your threat Model: Understanding strategies for uncertainty amidst digital surveillance and data exploitation” as part of the Civil… Read more

DATACTIVE is proud to announce the publication of the special issue on ‘data activism’ of Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. Edited by Stefania Milan and Lonneke van der Velden, the special issue features six articles by Jonathan Gray, Helen Kennedy, Lina Dencik, Stefan Baack, Miren Gutierrez, Leah Horgan and Paul… Read more

DATACTIVE Research Associate Miren Gutierrez organised a follow-up of the ‘Data for the Social Good’ event (Amsterdam, November 2017). The debate will take place in Madrid on Thursday the 12th of April. You can check out the impressive line-up in the description of the event (in Spanish). Cuándo: 12 de… Read more

This weekend the DATACTIVE team will be joining the IETF101 hackathon to work on quantitative mailing-list analysis software. The Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) is the oldest and most important Internet standard setting body. The discussions and decisions of the IETF have fundamentally shaped the Internet. All IETF mailing-lists and output documents are publicly available. They represent… Read more

We had the luxury of Noortje Marres (Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University) joining us for a late breakfast on Friday, February 9th. Over croissants, we touched upon various topics including data politics, and interdisciplinary research: breaking barriers and other intersectionalities.  Noortje Marres is part of… Read more

Stefania will take part in ‘Slow computing: A workshop on resistance in the algorithmic age’, organised by Rob Kitchin and Alistair Fraser and hosted by the  Programmable City project, the Social Sciences Institute and the Department of Geography of Maynooth University, Ireland. “In line with the parallel concepts of slow food… Read more

Ativismo em tempos de Big Data: conheça o trabalho de Stefania Milan, conferencista do Simpósio Lavits 2017 Find the original article (in portuguese) here Stefania Milan publicou recentemente “Big Data (a partir) do Sul: O começo de uma conversa necessária”, em parceria com Emiliano Treré, como uma convite para fomentar… Read more

Stefania will speak at the Conférence Erasme-Descartes 2017 dedicated to “Big Data/Mégadonnées : usages et enjeux”/“Big Data: toepassingen en uitdagingen”, in Amsterdam on November 10. She will join Eric Leandri (Qwant), Mélanie Peters (Rathenau Institut) and André Vitalis (Centre d’Études sur la Citoyenneté, l’Informatisation et les Libertés) on a roundtable discussing “Big Data, kans of bedreiging voor… Read more

As every aspect of our daily lives becomes susceptible of turning into data being collected, analyzed and repurposed, the question arises what kind of consequences this process will bring for society. The goal of this event is to reflect upon how activism, data, and research may be mobilized for social… Read more

On August 8, 2017, Stefania will give a talk at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, with the title ‘Big Data y la Imaginación Sociológica. Estudio de datos, activismo de datos y periodismo de datos. Su importancia para los estudios en comunicación”. The event will take place at the Auditorio,… Read more

DATACTIVE is proud to present ‘Big Data from the South/desde el Sur’, a one-day conference interrogating the mythology and universalism of datafication and big data from an epistemology of the South perspective. The event is co-organized with Emiliano Trerè (Scuola Normale Superiore), and sponsored by DATACTIVE with Fundacion Karisma (Bogotà,… Read more

What? Bernando Sorj on digital activism in South America When? 23 May at 11:00 hours Where?  in Elab, BG1 room 0.16 (Turfdraagsterpad 9) We will discuss the main conclusions of the book “Political Activism in the Era of Internet”, in which we analyse experiences from six South American countries, presenting a broad… Read more

We are very proud to share that DATACTIVE is featured in the ERC 10th anniversary celebrations as one of the success stories! The European Research Council turns ten this year. The anniversary program ‘Beyond the first ten years‘, scheduled for March 21st in Brussels, highlights the key achievements and some… Read more

  We are happy to announce that Elizabeth Losh will present on gender and technology in the discourse surrounding Hillary Clinton’s email scandal as part of DATACTIVE Speaker’s Series and in collaboration with the DMI’s data sprint. Please find the outline and bio below. Date: 8 March, 15.30 – 17.00… Read more

We are very happy to announce that the report from our September ‘Contentious Data’ workshop is ready for publication and circulation. The report is included below or can be downloaded here. Text continues below the report. With special thanks all speakers, including Sandra Braman (Texas A&M University), Alison Powell (London School of Economics), Hisham… Read more

The DATACTIVE team will organise the second week of annual Digital Methods Summer School at the University of Amsterdam from July 4 – 8, 2016. We will lead three projects on digital methods for mailing lists, mapping the civil tech landscape and the evolution of digital security tools. The results of our… Read more

 We are pleased to announce that Hossein Derakhshan is going to join us for a guest lecture on March 4. The Web We Have To Save The Web, as envisaged by its inventors, is founded on the idea of Hyperlink. Derived from the notion of hypertext in literary theory, hyperlink… Read more

We are very happy to announce that Jeremy Shtern will be giving a special lecture as part of our DATACTIVE Speaker Series. Better than Random: The Chance For Democratic Governance of the Advertising Supported Internet This talk presents and reflects on results of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded… Read more