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Invisible data in night-time governance: Addressing policy gaps and building a digital rights framework for cities after dark by @jhereia.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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‘Rescuing’ data justice? Mobilising the collective in responses to datafication by Lena Dencik www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New book: Indigenous Statistics: From Data Deficits to Data Sovereignty, 2nd ed. by Chris Andersen, Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Chelsea Gabel. First ed was a very useful read. www.routledge.com/Indigenous-S...

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Smart-Washing the City: A Study on the Privatization of Urban Digital Infrastructures in the Global South by Jess Reia and Luã Cruz in the International Journal of Communication ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Workshop CFP: 'The use of research creation and arts-based methods in studying housing, planning and the built environment' (9–10 September 2025, Maynooth University, Ireland). Includes 13 bursaries for travel/accommodation to attend. Further details at: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=650

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Hauntings of Absence and Erasure: Black Archival Practices of Property Data by Joyce Percel in Antipode. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Workshop call for papers: Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital Futures, Leipzig, 25-25 Sept 2025. www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/institut-...

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‘Data for her social good?’ Pioneering feminist data narratives for gender justice in China by Xiao Han in Media, Culture & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Hard copies of Critical Data Studies book have finally arrived. The post schedule for parcels travelling from England to Ireland seems to have reverted to that of the medieval period. Great to have the book in hand: always feels like a different experience reading the printed book to the pdf copy.

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Critical Data Studies trilogy: The Data Revolution (2e); Data Lives; Critical Data Studies. 3 different styles: monograph; biographical essays/short stories; & glossary entries. Collectively, introduce the field, its key insights, concepts & methods. More info on each via www.kitchin.org?page_id=2

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The Critical Data Studies book is organised A to Z, but here is a conceptual mapping by theme for those looking for related sets of concepts and methods datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/wp-content/u...

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New OA book: Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) edited by @azadehakbari.bsky.social and @silviahedley.bsky.social Makes the case for epistemic justice in knowledge production and ownership re. ICT for development www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

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New open access book – Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – published by Polity Books. 413 key terms defined & described. Also available as a paperback or hardback. To download or buy visit the publishers website: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Legal Prospects for Achieving Epistemic Data Justice for Rural Women in Tanzania and Kenya by Nelson Okeyo in Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Law, Technology Law journal.strathmore.edu/index.php/ji...

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Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation by Annika Richterich in the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Discusses feminist data activism and introduces notion of data solidarity with marginalised groups journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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'Neither fair nor legal. How and why untrustworthy digital ecosystems evolve' by Catherine Thompson, Daniel Samson and Sherah Kurnia in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. About Robodebt social welfare scandal aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...

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2024 was a good year for books - 3 fell over the publication line. Many thanks to co-authors James Ash & Agnieszka Leszczynski & co-editors @marygilmartin.bsky.social, @gypjh2000.bsky.social & @suerobertsky.bsky.social for all their efforts and support. And to Sage & Polity for publishing them.

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Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Today is publication day for the new book - Critical Data Studies. But since my copies are stuck in Holyhead parcel pileup & open access version not yet available on publisher website I'm saving marketing stuff to new year. As a launch day it's a bit of an anti-climax! But it's no longer 'in press'

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New WP: The digital turn in planning and ‘good enough’ planning systems, data and outcomes by Carla Kayanan, Sam Mutter, @juliettedavret.bsky.social and @robkitchin.bsky.social mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...

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Disrupting the housing disruptors: Exploring emerging technologies, practices and ideologies in housing. Special issue of Digital Geography & Society edited by @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social, Dallas Rogers & @timwhite100.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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New WP: Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development & control in Ireland, 2000-2024 by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan & Sam Mutter. Charts the management of planning/construction pipeline in Ireland mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/19264/

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CfP: Societal Impact through Collaborative Research (Utrecht University, NL, 7-8 April 2025). We invite panels for discussing challenges & perspectives and workshops for developing skills, good practices & methods. Keynotes: @robkitchin.bsky.social & Payal Arora dataschool.nl/en/news/call...

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Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems by Joanne Redden, Jessica Brand, Ina Sander and Harry Warne carnegieuk.org/wp-content/u...

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The politics of data justice: exit, voice, or rehumanisation? by Azadeh Akbari in Information, Communication & Society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system. New working paper by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Sam Mutter & Carla Kayanan. mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/19238/

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Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences? By Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo in Ethics and Information Technology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New preprint: 'Provincialising platform citizenship: Citizen participation in and through civic platforms' by @kiddingthecity.bsky.social and myself osf.io/preprints/so...

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Job. Assistant professor of urban planning and data analytics at Cornell University. Details: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29102

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Job: Open rank (tenure track/tenured), urban planning at Columbia University. Focus on spatial data analytics/GIS, spatial justice, informational ethics. To teach critical spatial analysis & planning apply.interfolio.com/157056

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Interesting read. Paul Bialski's (@bialski.bsky.social) Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press). So much of life is all about good enough (rather than excellence or perfection) due to the mess of compromises to get by press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Reconfiguring Data Relations: Institutional Dynamics around Data in Local Governance by Seolha Lee & Paul Dourish. About city gov trying to build a tool to address equity & justice issues dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Me in @placesjournal.bsky.social : “Repair can help us move beyond the ideas of techno-solutionist decarbonization that tend to dominate tech industry greenwashing + to look instead at practices, institutions + architectures that can extend the lives of systems through refurbishment + repurposing”

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Met a few folks recently using 1e of The Data Revolution as a course text who haven't switched to 2e as thought it was a light refresh. 2e has 10 new chapters & rest rewritten. It's got 50% more content & fills in a lot of gaps re devs in Critical Data Studies. It's really not a light refresh

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Data Stories was involved in two events last week. A XR masterclass at BETA 2024 in Dublin (the link below), and the Data Lives conference in Copenhagen. Great to be out meeting folks and sharing the work

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