Data that Matter, my article just out with Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2023.0428 #ai #bigdata #artificialintelligence #digital #environment #feminism #haraway #nietzsche #racism
Annie Ring
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bad-Ass Prof in German and Film at UCL. Uncertain Archives, German Screen Studies Network, Paragraph Journal of Modern Critical Theory
Data that Matter: On Metaphors of Obfuscation, Thinking 'the Digital' as Material and Posthuman Cooperation with AI
This article argues that ‘the digital’ and ‘big data’ are metaphors of obfuscation, which are used to screen the real effects of technologies on lived experiences and the planet. Now that technology consumers are connected 24/7 to the Internet (or
I found #leavingTwitter so good I'm now #quittingMeta platforms too. #leavingfacebook Feels threshholdy and just right for the #newyear
Celia CintasNairobi Women in Data will be hosting an end of year datathon challenge.
The #datathon will be launched virtually on the 25th November with the Datathon #ML challenge hosted on #Zindi.
The physical presentation and awards will be presented at our Nairobi IBM lab on 3rd December 
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If you are interested in taking part in the challenge. Please follow the instructions on this form to register your team. 😎
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bVrEAGBjeonIPhNqCN0eV8uFe9IFr2ahvfginYsgs-c/edit?usp=drivesdk
Registration Form WiD Datathon
This is a Application form for teams who would like to participate in the WiD Datathon. Rules include: Ensure your group has 4 people of which 50% need to be women and each group will be assigned a mentor by us (WiD) You Must attend the launch event on the 25th Friday of Nov virtually for 10:00 am to 13:30 pm You must submit your project on the platform by 1st December to attend the physical awarding event. You must have an ID card/Passport to attend the physical event at the venue on the 3rd of December at IBM Research Kenya in CUEA, Karen. You must be registered by your group leader as the list will be used by security at the entrance. (One member per group to register for the whole team) Prizes to be awarded to the first three teams. Personal details Shared in this form are for purposes of registration and admission to the physical event on the last day. Kindly note that there are limited slots and all rules must be adhered to. To join our community: Our LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9058476/ Our WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CWgI9SFPEMj0pl4UdJeFoq
We were interested in how homes became electronic cottages for those lucky enough to work and zoom from home in 2020-21, and we wondered whether the wonderful prostheses that are PPE made front line workers into cyborgs too. And we explored if being radical cyborgs could also smash the conservatism of the "household", that traditional idea which suddenly became the organising unit for locked down societies. 🤖🦿🥳
I've written an essay with my colleague Emily Baker about whether the pandemic lockdowns made us all into cyborgs 🤖🤖
It's in this book, Lockdown Cultures (edited by Bruzzi and Biriotti), which can be downloaded free. Our piece is on p. 58
#pandemic #culture #haraway #AI #criticaltech #feminism
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My book on the award winning German film The Lives of Others has 30% off on the Bloomsbury webpage currently https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lives-of-others-9781839025303/
I'll be launching the book in London at the start of December with events at UCL and the BFI Southbank, DM me for details if you'd like to come along!
Jay Rosen"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk decide..."
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment
