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DJL's Emiliano Trere will be keynote speaker for the "Week of communication" celebrating the 20 years of the Faculty of Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Peru. Emiliano will deliver three talks addressing digital activism, datafication and...

As part of the Call for Submission from the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to visit the United Kingdom, the Data Justice Lab has provided a submission based on our research on uses of data analytics in public services in the UK....

DJL's Fieke Jansen will discuss her research for the DATAJUSTICE project at an event at Het Nieuwe Institut in Rotterdam on Thursday 11th of October. Details here.

Lab members Joanna Redden and Arne Hintz will be in Montreal this week for the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). We'll present findings from our ongoing project Data Scores as Governance about the use of data analytics by government...

Javier Sánchez Monedero has been invited to speak as part of the Doctoral Program on Advanced Computing, Energy and Plasma seminar series on Machine Learning, System Modelling and Data Mining at the University of Córdoba (Spain) on Wednesday 10th of October. He will...

DJL's Emiliano Treré will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday 9th of October at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at Brighton University on Sublime Algorithms and the Ecological Gaze. Based on his forthcoming book, Hybrid Media Activism:...

We're very happy we've been invited to participate in courses at University of Massachusetts (Amherst, US) and McGill University (Montreal, Canada) to discuss data justice with students there. On Tuesday 25th September, Arne Hintz joined (remotely) a session of the...

We were happy to be able to engage in discussions with a range of civil society groups as part of the Society in the Loop event organised by doteveryone, the Ada Lovelace Institute, and the Civil Society Futures initiative. The event took place in London on the 14th...

DJL's Fieke Jansen and Philippa Metcalfe from the DATAJUSTICE project will join Benjamin Bratton and others for the first event of the Vertical Atlas research lab - a new project mapping and modelling the geopolitical evolution of The Stack. Read more about it here.

DJL's Lina Dencik joined Professor Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths) as keynote for the annual New Directions in Media Studies postgraduate conference that this year had the theme 'Digital Lives and Alternative Politics'. The day consisted of several interesting...

We are delighted to co-host the seminar and workshop 'Beyond data ethics: datafication and the good life' together with the Centre for Communication and Computing at Copenhagen University in Denmark. The workshop will take place in Copenhagen on the 5th of September...

Lina Dencik is excited to attend the first workshop of the newly established Nordic research network on Datafication, data inequalities and data justice. The workshop will take place in Tampere, Finland on the 23-24 of August and will be the first of three workshops...