Wonderful new volume called Revisiting Reflexivity – Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond edited by Sarah Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Esther Dessewffy, Bao-Chau Pham, Ariadne Avkiran and Kathleen Gregory has been published this month, fully open access from Bristol University Press. I contributed a very short chapter, called ‘When Sally Met Steve […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CfP: special issue about citational politics. Full papers due on 28 February 2025. To be published in KULA.
new publication about digital transformations in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin
I’ve been invited to write regular columns again for Observant, Maastricht University’s independent newspaper. I did this from 2017-2020, but stopped when I joined the Faculty Board. Now I’m back, with five columns to write for this academic year. You can find both new and old columns here. I’ve addressed everything from lawnmowing robots to […]
new article about feminist chatbots published in New Media and Society, written together with Annika Richterich
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Linus Zoll & Google DeepMind / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/