Brokering digital futures
Researchers of the digital society who work on tech-related projects are easily turned into brokers mediating information and connections. The tech field seems to…
people
We understand people as critical and creative agents, who shape and are shaped by algorithmic processes. Focusing on people means taking seriously the work, habits, imaginations and emotions entangled in datafied life.
technology
Technologies of datafication consist of servers and code, but equally importantly, also social and cultural configurations. With a keen eye on both digital futures and historical continuities, we examine what is new and particular about algorithmic technologies and their societal roles
society
Datafied life is bound up with society’s institutions and political-economic processes. We study how technologies distribute power and influence, remake markets, activate public values, and motivate quests for more just and democratic alternatives.
Events / News / Publications
Who is GenAI?
As an emerging technology, Generative AI (GenAI) is negotiable and unfinished, requiring further work. Adjusting it to everyday uses requires adopting new ways of…
Theories about algorithms are also theories about people
A stream of recent research has paid attention to people’s theories about how algorithms work, as such theories appear to guide human action. Our…
28.10. REPAIR Scholarly Talk by Katja de Vries
Welcome to REPAIR Scholarly Talk! Professor Katja de Vries (Uppsala University) will give a talk entitled Matters of life and death: recycling, repairing or…
Exploring parliamentary AI debates with computational text analysis
As part of the Reimagine ADM project, we are computationally exploring what textual data, including tweets and parliamentary discussion, can tell us about public…
Reimagining algorithmic futures – what our Chanse-project is about?
The rush to implement artificial intelligence tools and algorithmic systems has sparked a critical conversation on their threat to public values, such as privacy,…