🩸 MenstruTechFeb 17

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

Show threadHarald KlinkeOct 7

The full program and book of abstracts for Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies V are now available.

From AI-assisted curating and digital heritage to epistemological critiques of data and archives, the two-day conference in Zagreb (16–17 Oct 2025) brings together 40 researchers from 16 countries to rethink sources in (digital) art history.

📄 Program: https://www.ipu.hr/content/info/DAH5_2025_program.pdf
📚 Book of Abstracts: https://www.ipu.hr/content/info/DAH5_2025_book_of_abstracts.pdf
#DigitalArtHistory #CriticalData #Zagreb2025

EngagingSTSjournalDec 30, 2024

How can narratives of offical statistics — presented as objective + neutral — be challenged through #CriticalData #pedagogy?

@maka_suarez @trading_affects & Flores on teaching violent death statistics in Ecuador: https://doi.org/nvz4

Associated data: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4vg6q

Teaching the Politics of Numbers with EthnoData: Ethnographic Experimentations through Statistics in Ecuador | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

EngagingSTSjournalDec 27, 2024

How can narratives of offical statistics — presented as objective + neutral — be challenged through #CriticalData #pedagogy?

@maka_suarez @trading_affects & Flores on teaching violent death statistics in Ecuador: https://doi.org/nvz4

Associated data: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4vg6q

Teaching the Politics of Numbers with EthnoData: Ethnographic Experimentations through Statistics in Ecuador | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

ing.gridMar 18, 2024
New Data Management Letter published! Izadora Silva Pimenta discusses the reusability of (meta)data, highlighting the need for critical thinking and the start of a data cycle as a dynamic of power https://www.inggrid.org/article/id/3945/ #RDM #CriticalData #DataLiteracy #DataReusability
Critically thinking about the reusability of (meta)data

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Jordan TaylorFeb 21, 2024

📢🏠💾 Excited to share our #CHI2024 work “Situating Data Sets: Making Public Data Actionable for Housing Justice” led by Anh-Ton Tran and Grace Guo (w/ Katsuki Chan, Carl DiSalvo & @eloraraymond)

#Viz #CriticalData

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12505

Situating Data Sets: Making Public Data Actionable for Housing Justice

Activists, governmentsm and academics regularly advocate for more open data. But how is data made open, and for whom is it made useful and usable? In this paper, we investigate and describe the work of making eviction data open to tenant organizers. We do this through an ethnographic description of ongoing work with a local housing activist organization. This work combines observation, direct participation in data work, and creating media artifacts, specifically digital maps. Our interpretation is grounded in D'Ignazio and Klein's Data Feminism, emphasizing standpoint theory. Through our analysis and discussion, we highlight how shifting positionalities from data intermediaries to data accomplices affects the design of data sets and maps. We provide HCI scholars with three design implications when situating data for grassroots organizers: becoming a domain beginner, striving for data actionability, and evaluating our design artifacts by the social relations they sustain rather than just their technical efficacy.

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Miriam PosnerNov 28, 2022
Logistics nerds: The Advanced Semiconductor Supply Chain Dataset includes manually compiled, high-level information about the tools, materials, processes, countries, and firms involved in the production of advanced logic chips. ... It uses a wide variety of sources, such as corporate websites and disclosures, specialized market research, and industry group publications. https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/chipexplorer/ #logistics #infrastructure #criticaldata #criticallogistics
Documentation: Advanced Semiconductor Supply Chain Dataset – Emerging Technology Observatory

From the Emerging Technology Observatory

Miriam PosnerNov 9, 2022

Just switched servers, so a re-#introduction! I teach #informationstudies & #digitalhumanities at UCLA, and I'm at work on a book about data in global supply chains. (ETA: shut up.)

I just finished some work, e.g., on shipping data: it turns out cargo ships receive and transmit huge amounts of data. They're "floating data terminals," as one technologist would have it.

Anyway, happy to be here, AMA about supply chains, thanks for having me!

#sts #criticaldata #supplychains

Kyle StineNov 6, 2022
Alright, I've gotten my website back up and running and now have links to all recent articles, including my newest, "Film as the First Universal Data Medium," available here: https://www.kylestine.com/writing.html #mediastudies #filmstudies #filmandmedia #cinemastudies #histtech #data #criticaldata
Kai NhamNov 6, 2022
#introduction Hi everyone! My name is Kai (he/they) and I’m a second year doctoral student at UCLA Information Studies interested in how dominant data regimes impact trans people of color and how might technology be leveraged for liberatory futures. #academia #informationstudies #hci #criticaldata #trans #bipoc #ethicalai #sts