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The spread of the Coronavirus is affecting conferences and other events around the globe, as well as international travel. At the Data Justice Lab, we are observing the situation closely and are evaluating the potential impact on the second Data Justice Conference -...

DJL's Fieke Jansen will be in Paris on February 6th to speak about her work on data-driven policing at an event at Sciences Po on surveillance in cities, whilst Lina Dencik will be at Goldsmiths for what promises to be a great discussion with Seeta Peña Gangadharan...

We are thrilled to announce that we are able to offer 4 grants to participants coming from the Global South to the Data Justice Conference on Civic Participation in a Datafied Society in May 2020 in Cardiff. Only participants who have had submissions accepted to the...

DJL's Lina Dencik, Javier Sanchez-Monedero and Fieke Jansen from the ERC DATAJUSTICE project team will be at the ACM FAT* 2020 conference in Barcelona this week. Javier will present project research on automated hiring system, Fieke will participate in a workshop on...

DJL's Fieke Jansen will be at the University of Liverpool in London to discuss citizen empowerment in an automated society hosted by Digital Leaders on Thursday 23rd January at 4.30pm.

ITforChange have published a major report on the global platform economy, its social implications and strategies of regulating it. Platform Society: Development in the Intelligence Economy explores the new modes of production through platformization, with a focus on...

DJL's Fieke Jansen and Lina Dencik will both participate in the 13th International Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference on Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence in Brussels this week. Fieke will speak on a panel on the Data Economy and...

Registration for our DataJustice2020 conference on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society is now open! Register here. Full Fee: Early bird (deadline February 28) £75 / £100 after Reduced Fee: Early bird (deadline February 28) £50 / £75 after Please note that the...

Questions of social and economic justice in a datafied world were on the agenda of the international workshop 'Data and Digital Intelligence as People's Resources: Reclaiming Freedom and Control in a Data-based Society' which was organised by the Just Net Coalition...

On 12 November, Data Justice Lab co-Director Arne Hintz contributed to a workshop held by the Austrian civil society organisation Commit on the topic When Algorithms Discriminate: Social Justice in Times of Datafication. The event brought together members of Austrian...

DJL’s Emiliano Treré will be busy in Seville (Spain) in the next few days. He will deliver the closing keynote of the MOVE.NET Conference on Social Movements and ICTs on Friday November 15th. On Monday 18th he will participate in the opening...