Christine Borgman (UCLA) and Paul Groth (UvA) have written a major piece for the Harvard Data Science Review called ‘From data creator to data reuser: distance matters’. This will be valuable for researchers and policy makers. They use the metaphor of ‘distance’ (e.g. methodological or temporal) to understand the challenges of sharing and re-using data. […]
I have now achieved one of my dreams – a publication in the Journal of Imaginary Research. Volume 10, on the theme of flourishing has just been published. My contribution, co-authored with Aida Inverno, stresses the importance of doing research about the imminent AI winter. AI winters follow periods of hype about what AI can […]
20 February, Maastricht – annual meeting of the Mental Health and Neuroscience PhD school at Maastricht University, workshop about mental health and gender bias on Wikipedia. 5-7 May, Graz, Austria – taking part in panel about responsible innovation at the STS Conference in Graz. 15 May, Heerlen – launch of Special Policy Brief about the […]
The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect in early 2024. Colleagues from Maastricht University have prepared a policy briefing, exploring how the DSA can contribute to protecting democracy, fundamental rights, and well-being in the digital age. This collection critically reflects on both the opportunities and challenges of digitalisation, providing policy recommendations for a […]
scholarship in STS master programs at Maastricht University
In early January, I was interviewed by Studio Europa Maastricht regarding the implications of recent moves by Meta, X and others to remove fact-checking. I very much enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation with Anna Mikhailova, and you can read the interview here. Studio Europa Maastricht publish a policy briefings about the Digital Services Act in March […]
Michela Cozza, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and I organised a second STS creative writing competition. The winners were announced during the EASST/4S conference held in Amsterdam from 16-19 July. The winning entries have now been published in the EASST Review, together with a short introduction by Michela, Nina and myself. There was a winner in each of […]
Cecilia Schenetti, Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans and I have a new article in International Migration. It is called ‘Navigating Contradictions: Justifications and Imaginaries of the Initiators of European Migration Information Campaigns’. It is based on Cecilia’s PhD fieldwork about how policy makers make sense of information campaigns designed to deter undocumented migration, from Senegal to […]
Call for contributions to workshop about hostility by design, to be held in Maastricht on 12-13 June 2025.
CfP: special issue about citational politics. Full papers due on 28 February 2025. To be published in KULA.
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