On Friday 29 December, the DMRC panel AI and Society featured at the Evergreens at Woodford Folk Festival. The session successfully captured the audience’s attention, fostering a thought-provoking dialogue on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI decision-making in various sectors.
Tool Without a Handle: Are You Not Trained?
Hosted by leading experts in digital research from the Digital Media Research Centre and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, the Woodford Children’s Festival welcomed the DMRC’s first Play As A Digital Child workshop on Thursday 28 December at the Puppet Joint, Woodford.
Across history, we’ve observed how gender bias in STEM fields is mirrored in outcomes lacking precise data on women. For example, according to “Verity Now,” a US-based campaigning group striving to achieve equity in vehicle safety, women are 73% more likely to be injured than men because car safety tests are carried out on a male mannequin.
A screenshot of the Open Knowledge Network call, with some participants visible.
In seiner Funktion als Professor für Informatik (Computational Humanities) an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) verbindet Christof Weiß zwei augenscheinlich äußerst unterschiedliche Fachbereiche: Mathematik und Informatik treffen bei ihm auf Kunst und Kultur.
In today’s world, the internet is a basic right and need, as it is a gateway through which people access other indispensable rights and needs, such as knowledge and education, as well as government services and job opportunities. The internet also enables people to practice their right to freedom of opinion and expression and to learn about and access healthcare services.
Danielle Borges and Urbano Reviglio, CMPF Research Associates
On the evening of 12 January, INC is organizing a Micro Book Fair as part of the Expanded Publishing Fest at OT301. In this post, we introduce you to the concept of the fair and the work of each participating publisher.
Time: 19:00-21:30 (followed by a club night until 03:00)
Publishers: HumDrumPress, Outline, Platform BK, Starfish Books, Spookstad, Errant Journal, and Valiz
This is the afterword for Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni.
‘In a way, we must start at the end.’
Deleuze and Guattari[1]
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The Institute of Network Cultures is Proud to Present its New Publication Series:
Network Notion #1
Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse
By Alessandro Sbordoni
The end of the world is just another sign of semiocapitalism.
Studienberatung, Studierendenkanzlei, Prüfungsamt, Rechenzentrum, Sportzentrum, Sanderring-Uni, Alte Universität und die Institute im Südflügel der Residenz bleiben in dieser Zeit geschlossen. Auch die Uni-Gebäude am Wittelsbacherplatz, am Hubland und auf dem Campus Nord sind zu. Die Regelung gilt außerdem für die Institute am Röntgenring und an der Versbacher Straße.
SMEX welcomes applications for the Mariam Al-Shafei Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights for the year 2024. This fellowship commemorates the legacy of our beloved colleague Mariam Al-Shafei and brings together digital rights advocates from West Asia and North Africa to collaborate, research, innovate, and address issues and challenges at the intersection of technology and human rights in our region.
Theory on Demand #50
RESISTING DATA COLONIALISM – A PRACTICAL INTERVENTION
Members and allies of the Tierra Común Network
Some people think that colonialism is long over, while others are sure it has never stopped. This book explores a third possibility: not only is colonialism still continuing, but right now it is morphing into possibly its most powerful version yet. This is data colonialism.