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A draft write up of the “Bots & Digital Infrapuncture” workshop
By Karin van Es Cristina Cochior and Manetta Berends, both researchers/designers operating in the Netherlands, developed an online workshop Bots and Digital Infrapuncture inspired by professor Deb Verhoeven’s concept “digital…
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Data walking in Düsseldorf: A quick write up on the datafication of coffee bean roasting
by Karin van Es For the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association for Cultural Management conference I was asked to organize a data walk. With four other participants we walked…
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5 Activities for Cultivating Tool Criticism Thinking
by Karin van Es The incorporation of computational tools in humanities research requires that we think critically about how these tools impact knowledge production. These tools, often adopted from the…
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Opening DataWorkplace
Utrecht Data School and Utrecht School of Governance cooperate since January in a joint research programme with the municipalities of Almere, Gouda and Woerden, and the Province South-Holland. The DataWorkplace…
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ICA preconference #JODS
video registration JUSTICE AND ORDER IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY: CONNECTING COMMUNICATIONS AND LEGAL THEORY Preconference for ICA 2019, Washington DC, Friday May 24, 2019 held at the University of Washington…
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Datafication and Colonialism: A Short Review by Dennis Jansen
Review of “The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory still Matters!” by prof. dr. Nick Couldry at Utrecht University, 12 June 2019 It is undeniable that…
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Watch lecture Nick Couldry: The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism
On 12 June the Datafied Society and the Centre for Humanities hosted the lecture The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory Still Matters! with Prof. Nick…
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Doing a systematic review/meta analysis on fuzzy phenomena
Maranke Wieringa (d.d. 4 June 2019) Meta analyses or systematic literature reviews are taken to be the golden standard for assessing the collective knowledge on a particular topic. While frequently…
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Governing the Digital Society is a new focus area at Utrecht University
One of the four newly identified focus areas at Utrecht University is Governing the Digital Society. Focus areas interdisciplinarily address research objects of societal relevance and develop novel ways of…
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Meet interns Rosemarij & Kirsten #projectkroncrv
We are Rosemarij Zeeman and Kirsten Leufkens, and both of us started the master’ s programme New Media and Digital Culture this year. Rosemarij with a background in communication and…
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