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noortjem.bsky.social
Sociologist of technology and science, also empirical philosopher, creative methods
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Excited to share this CfP for a conference organized by my wonderful colleagues at CETE-P! šŸ“£ @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Cohabitability:Ā Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth @noortjem.bsky.social @joannazylinska.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Academic #Environment #PhilSky #Technology

Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t... #ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social

Very clear demonstration of how engineering is being deployed as a power tool and staged as power politics, gone are the days when we could think of "technocracy" as "post-politics"

Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?

Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: ā€œwe can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulateā€ #STSā€™ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy

Critical situations of Covid-19 identified by members and partners of IndieSAGE, the group of scientists that formed in 2020 to provide expert advice on the pandemic response. New article in Social Studies of Science with @mvaldeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306... Visualisations by G. Terenghi

Watch this great documentary report and understand what ā€œAIā€ looks like from the ground, in Logan Australia. Actually, it is not just looks, but also sharp commentary, including on the retail model, and magical twins to boot!

Symposium alert! ā€œArtificial societies: Social engineering after the Techlashā€ will happen in March at the U of Warwick with support from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social w Mona Sloane @karengregory.bsky.social organised by @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al. See: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Interdisciplinarity French style: anthropologists, artists, philosophers, physicists, designers and sociologists will come together to continue the conversation with Bruno Latourā€™s work and each other. For 4 days later this week in Paris: www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...

Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots šŸ“ø troubling-ai.glitch.me

This still sums up AI in the street best for me: ā€œitā€™s difficult to know whether technology in the street is even functional: ā€˜In my street, we have a semi-functional environmental sensor: someone backed into it with their car so weā€™re not sure if it still works.ā€ theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...

Enjoyed the Conversation post from @noortjem.bsky.social on #ai and #aiinthestreet: theconversation.com/five-ways-yo.... Disclosure: I also worked on the project but I discovered new things in this post.

It really does look like @mayameme.bsky.social is going to bring it all together in her new book! ā€œthe driverless car ā€¦works when the world around it transforms to accommodate its limitsā€¦ [but] such an infrastructural view is hard to advance given..Soon out! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

šŸ“¢ So happy with the āœØawesomeāœØ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street. Taken aback by how much weā€™ve done! See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st... Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more!

Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies Register šŸ‘‰https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207

šŸ”¬ šŸ¤– Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: what are algorithms doing in the scientific littearature? šŸ”¬ šŸ¤– New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Summary šŸ§µšŸ‘‡

new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and Karin van Es has just been published in Convergence jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/p... we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out publicdatalab.org/projects/plu...

Where is AI in the street? How does it manifest in this everyday setting? The AI in the street recently organised a diagramming workshop hosted by Yasmine Boudiaf to find out. Read the workshop report here: aiinthestreet.substack.com/p/framing-ev...

Where are AIā€™s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AIā€™s individualising interfaces? We will discuss in Edinburgh on June 5 in a BRAID event organised by @alxndrt.bsky.social with A Powell and B Nissen et al: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-...