We are organizing an open panel on the futures of data activism at this year's @4sweb.bsky.social 4S conference in Toronto.
Applications are welcome until the end of April. We invite you to submit proposals and share this call!
More info: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
The image shows the cover of the report "Trans Digital Rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for Gender-diverse Communities" on the left. Besides the title, it says 2025 as the year of publication and the authors' names are Jess Reia, Rachel Leach and Sophie Li. The design is a colourful geometric pattern. There is a QR code on the right.
New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. www.wired.com/story/why-th...
The article can be found here: doi.org/10.1080/1474...
The open access preprint is available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In the article, I show how strategic dilemmas of sustainable data use (that is, just right!) translate into concrete gains and losses for environmental activists - which I present using the example of the anti-smog movement and the nature conservation movement.
Abstract of the research article „The Consequences of Data Activism”
My latest article "The Consequences of Data Activism: Data Sustainability Package in Air and Biodiversity Data Politics" has just been published in "Social Movement Studies," in which I discuss what are the opportunities and threats associated with the use of data by activists.
Just trying out ChatGPT 4.5, and out of nowhere it started making "jokes" about the text I was discussing with it, putting the words "explicit" and "explicitly", end with:
I will use it in my coding classes!
super excited to see a photo of the actual book that is the Polish translation of @vicclarke.bsky.social and my @sagepub.com book Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide! Sadly I have zero words of Polish!
@amymaher.bsky.social 🥰
#ThematicAnalysis
#Qualitative
💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more.
#QDA #opensource
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...
16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Faculty of Political Science and Sociology
Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy)
Closing date: 13th March 2025
www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...
what the hell 😅
Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.
I’m going to try to avoid posting “OMG did you see what Trump/Musk did?” content unless really relevant to Europe getting its shit together. There’s only a limited amount of energy in my life and I know where it needs to be focused.
In this new format of the recently launched SAGE journal Dialogues on Digital Society, our @mitpress.bsky.social book Algorithms of Resistance shorturl.at/deLVW has been reviewed by 3 scholars to which we then respond. Smart way to dust off book reviewing! All Open Access, including our book :)
Last season of the USA is gonna be epic
Wow, finally, climate change has stopped being real. Whew!
Before PhD: I don't know
During PhD: that is beyond the scope of my current knowledge
After PhD: I don't know
just learned that Eagle Eye Cherry was his NAME (and that he’s Don Cherry’s son?)
Big if true
Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds is available open access w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
You can order the book in hardcover and paperback, too, if you need a last minute Christmas present: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
Wonderful teaching resource with further reading suggestions by @robkitchin.bsky.social, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods! This is so useful for building a fundamental understanding of everything data-related before getting into more complex discussions.
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“The action could allow data centers to exceed pollution limits, open federal lands to data center construction and give data centers priority access to available power supply, the people said. One of the sources said the policy under discussion would take the form of an executive order”
🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social!
🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social.
🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies
CFP: Digital Sociology: New Theoretical Approaches, New Methodological Perspectives, New Research Areas
studiasocjologiczne.pl/p,482,call-f...
