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On Wednesday 15th our Emiliano Treré will deliver the STeMiS theme seminar "Algorithm as propaganda, repression and paranoia" upon invitation of the Digital Society Network at the University of Sheffield. The seminar builds on the findings of Emiliano's recently...

On Wednesday 15th of May we will host a discussion with Stanford University's Digital Civil Society Lab on the intersection between digital policy and community action. The event will bring together civil society groups in and around Wales for a discussion on why...

We are delighted to announce the publication of our special issue on Data Justice for Information, Communication & Society. With this special issue we have sought to capture some of the diversity and nuances that were prevalent at our conference last May and,...

We are delighted to announce the publication of yet another report from the DATAJUSTICE project. Javier Sanchez-Monedero and Lina Dencik have scoped developments relating to the datafication of the workplace in Europe. This will inform further case study research for...

We are delighted to publish a new report from the DATAJUSTICE project that looks at trends in data-driven policing in the context of Europe. Researched and written by Fieke Jansen, the report is the first comprehensive review of recent developments with details of...

We are very happy to be joined by Eric Kind who will work as a consultant on the DATAJUSTICE project. Eric will help the DATAJUSTICE team with identifying and researching case studies across law enforcement, border control and migration management, and low-wage work....

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new special issue edited by DJL's Emiliano Treré together with Stefania Milan from DATACTIVE. The issue 'Big Data from the South' brings together contributions engaging with theories and experiences of datafication of...

DJL's Lina Dencik will give a talk at the Alan Turing Institute in London on Thursday 2nd of May as part of the event Driving Data Futures. In a joint conversation with Turing Research Fellow Dr Omar A Guerrero, Lina will talk about the need to situate data in...

Lina will keynote the launch of the new Helsinki Inequalities Initiative (INEQ) at Helsinki University on Tuesday 16th of April. The initiative seeks to recognise inequalities, making sense of their forms and interactions, and searching for political responses. Lina...

Fieke Jansen will join a group of scholars, activists and lawyers at the Bernstein Institute in New York for a conference on Democratizing Data on 17-18 April. The conference seeks to explore grassroots strategies to advance human rights in the context of...

DJL's Lina Dencik will join an event at Princeton next week together with the UN's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, to discuss the human rights implication of AI in social protection. The event will also include Virginia Eubanks...

DJL's Emiliano Treré will participate in two events in Italy later this month. On March 20, he will deliver the talk "Disassembling the hybridity of networked activism" based on his new book “Hybrid Media Activism” (Routledge, 2019) at the Cosmos Centre on Social...