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Summer Time – Conference Time
It's a busy summer for the Data Justice Lab as several of its members are attending conferences, workshops and summer schools to present our projects and discuss data justice. Here are a few of the events that we'll attend this summer: Authoritarian Practices Beyond...
Fieke Jansen speaking at Sensing Media
DJL's Fieke Jansen will be presenting her work on creative research methodologies for studying data flows and infrastructure at the Sensing Media conference at the University of Siegen, Germany, June 14-15, 2018.
Joanna Redden keynote at Digital Stuff 2018
We are excited to be invited to speak at Cardiff University's Postgraduate conference 'Digital Stuff 2018'. Our co-director Joanna Redden will keynote the conference, which will take place in Cardiff on June 14th. Read more...
Data Justice Lab on Tour: From Prague to Leiden to Stirling
Lab members have been busy discussing their research and the concept of data justice with other scholars. Following the Data Justice conference in Cardiff, Lab co-director Lina Dencik held a panel on Data and Social Justice at the annual conference of the...
Data Justice Conference Web-Stream
The plenaries and keynotes of the Data Justice conference (21/22 May) are live-streamed. If you want to hear and see what our keynote speakers have to say about the challenges of datafication, enter the stream or check the recordings. The plenaries include the...
Data Justice Lab at RightsCon
The Data Justice Lab teamed up with our friends at Datactive (University of Amsterdam), ITforChange (India) and others for a session at the annual digital rights convention RightsCon which took place 16-18 May in Toronto. The session The Fight Against the...
Final Data Justice Conference Programme Released
The first ever Data Justice conference will take place at Cardiff University on Monday/Tuesday 21/22 May 2018. It will feature a range of renowned international speakers, a wide range of academic presentations and several practical workshops. We are expecting over 200...
Dan Mercea on Social Media and Protest Today
We are thrilled to welcome Dan Mercea who will be presenting during this week's JOMEC Research Seminar. Dan will be presenting at 4 pm in Room 0.05, Bute Building. The title and abstract below. The Knowledge of Protest: An Assessment of Topical Social Media Usage in...
Professor Nick Couldry visit to Data Justice Lab
We are delighted to host a visit from Professor Nick Couldry (London School of Economics) to the Data Justice Lab on Wednesday 16th of May. Nick will give a talk as part of the JOMEC research seminar series on his forthcoming book on data and colonisation. The talk...
DJL in Gothenburg and Bath
Our Co-Director Joanna Redden is in Sweden today participating in the GAIA Machine Learning & Data Science conference. You can learn more about this great event here. Tomorrow she'll be taking part in the University of Bath fantastic thematic semester on Machine...
Talking Data Justice in Sydney
Our Co-Director, Lina Dencik, is excited to visit Sydney, Australia next week for a number of events and workshops. Jointly invited by Gerard Goggin from University of Sydney and Tanja Dreher from University of New South Wales, Lina will discuss her ERC-funded project...
Emiliano Treré interviewed in Argentinian radio about Cambridge Analytica
Our lab member Emiliano Treré has been interviewed by journalist María Laura Avignolo in the radio programme ‘Corresponsales en Línea’, a programme carried out by correspondents of the Argentian newspapers ‘Clarín’ and ‘La Nación’ in Paris and London. In the...