#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

New #openaccess book on "Dialogues in Data Power" edited by @juliane and @J0bates 🎊

I contributed to a chapter on “In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventions”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/17/invisibilities-data-studies

#datastudies #criticaldatastudies

Glad to be part of new #openaccess book on "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society" edited by @gastev @kfvanes @TraceyPLauriault on @AmsterdamUPress.

Here's my chapter on “Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/11/speculative-data-infrastructures

#mediastudies #taxjustice #taxavoidance #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #teaching #commodon #sts #newmedia #internetstudies

Hi everyone 👋🏻 --- I’m co-organising a hybrid talk series on Sound & AI in the Cultural Industries over the coming months at UvA. All are welcome to join us online.

More info and rsvp link here: https://www.rmes.nl/lecture-series-sound-ai-in-cultural-industries/

#AIVoice #PlatformStudies #PodcastStudies #DataStudies

Sharing special issue love: We invite contributions to discuss the mediation of knowledge practices and planetary matter through data infrastructures.

https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/689

#datastudies #mediastudies #sts

“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231224157

@sts #sts #tech #mediastudies #datastudies #datacenter

A new paper on AI incidents and 'networked trouble' from our PhD researcher Tommy Shane: https://kingsdh.net/2023/12/20/ai-incidents-networked-trouble/

#ai #artificialintelligence #aitrouble #algorithms #algorithmstudies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #digitalmethods #trouble #feministsts #sts #mediastudies #commodon

new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp

we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out 👀 https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/

#criticaltechnicalpractice
#internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivemethods #feministsts #newmedia #commodon #sts

In this new paper on data journeys, the authors draw on the concept of domestication to show how data are made usable at sites of reuse:
https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231212506

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two sites of biomedical research, the authors identify four dimensions to data domestication: storytelling, standardization, formatting and cultivation.
The study stresses the importance of local settings for data work, even in a global data economy.

#STS #datastudies