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Academic events

2019 “Toward an Anthropology of Data”, co-convened with Antonia Walford and Nick Seaver, University College London. March 19-20, 2019.  Big Data and the Power of Narrative. Conference 150 participants at the IT University. Organized in collaboration with AU and KU. Advisory Board member Prof. Evelyn Ruppert visited the IT University 3 weeks in March. She conducted 1 public lecture, a workshop and a seminar. Book Launch of Ethnography for a Data Saturated World(eds. Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus) ETHOS Lab in collaboration with…

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Academic talks (selected)

2018 Hockenhull, M. 2018. The Data Sprint as Ethnographic Probe. Annual Meeting of Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies. Winthereik, Brit Ross. 2018. The Ethnographic Effect: On Companionship in Analysis. Annual Meeting of Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies. Schou, J. & B. Jørgensen. 2018. Work as Critique: Helping Citizens at the Edge of Digitalization. Annual Meeting of Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies. Maguire, J. 2018. Promissory Collaborations – Big Tech datacenters and the State. Annual…

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Public dissemination

2019 Douglas-Jones R. and M. Cohn. GDPR: Deletion Poems (eds.). Inspired by the presence of GDPR in DaR project fieldwork, particularly subproject 5 Bodies of Data, this chapbook has been disseminated to 160 Danish companies/schools to assist in workshops on data protection. Data Protection Officers (DPOs) have been amongst the recipients. A timeline of the project is here https://ethos.itu.dk/gdpr/ Gad, C. Interviews for citation or background (written + online media). Altinget; Weekendavisen; dr.dk; Pro.ing.dk/datatech; finans.dk. Gad, C. Broadcast media. P3 Morgen; Radioavisen. James Maguire,…

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Collaborations

Member of the NordForsk funded network ‘Datafication, Data Inequalities and Data Justice’. Participant in NOS-HS workshop series ‘Nordic Perspectives on Algorithmic Systems: Concepts, Methods, and Interventions’. Collaboration with Municipality of Copenhagen “Kultur- og Fritidsforvaltningen” and “Socialforvaltningen”. Aalborg University Learning and Development Department, knowledge partner on project Edge Platforms: Reimagining Digital Infrastructures. Member of Danish Data Center Association. Part of Data Center working group on Skills and Competences for an Emerging Industry. Digital Anthropocene academic working group with Aalborg University. Professional course on…

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Scientific publications (selected)

Submitted Burnett, J. M. submitted. “Tracing the past in the present: Interrogating the DAMD controversy through Twitter.”Digital Culture & Society. Cohn, M.L. submitted. “Speculative Legacies, Imagined Inheritances,” In Ballestero, A. and Winthereik, B.R. The Ethnographic Effect – A Companion to Analysis (in negotiation with Duke). Hockenhull, M. and Cohn, M.L. submitted. “Hot air: Localising sociotechnical imaginaries of digital futures”. New Media and Society, Special Issue: Future Imaginaries.   Special Issue Shortlisted for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, eds. Rachel Douglas-Jones, Nick…

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6. What is in the ‘driven’? Data driven management in the Danish municipalities

Data driven management has become a central part of the Danish public sector discourse about digitalization and digital transformation. Well-established ideas that form part of this discourse are, that for the public sector to become truly digital and thus more efficient and more innovative, data must be an integral part of public governance. This implies that not only must new IT systems and infrastructures be implemented and developed and new IT skills and competences brought in, new organizational mindsets and…

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7. Big Data Stories: Intervening with Data and Visualisations

Project members: Associate Professor Laura Watts, Associate Professor Luca Rossi, Associate Professor Marisa Cohn Research question: How can fiction and digital storytelling techniques be used to inform government big data practices? Theme: Interventions Partners: All above partners, labs and ETHOS Lab affiliations in Paris, Amsterdam, London and Irvine, California

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5. Bodies of data: The health of the nation in a time of infrastructural change

In the Bodies of Data subproject, we interrogate the emerging politics, policies and practices around personal health data in the Nordic region. Using a central interest in the changing roles and responsibilities for data and its infrastructures, we empirically explore three main themes: The digital longevity and aftermath of controversial events with health data The problematic area of data storage and deletion How new platform-based initiatives to move and store personal health data contribute to changing paradigms of ownership and…

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4. Organizing data in the Danish Tax administration

As an organization, the Danish tax administration (SKAT) currently strives to become increasingly data driven. Simultaneously, SKAT is committed to offering data services to citizens, companies, municipalities and other stakeholder in line with Danish government strategies on openness and digitalization. The prospect is to enable other actors to become increasingly data-driven as well. Data and data use thus becomes a significant organising principle in SKAT. Drawing on actor-network theory and an ethnographic approach, the project examines work in SKAT towards…

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3. Locating the Dataverse

This subproject interrogates the processes of locating and materializing data through the emergence of the data center industry in Denmark. With a focus on the relations between local government, state actors, and Big-Tech corporations, the project analyses transformations in cultural imaginaries of the future in and beyond the sites where data centers are being located. This includes an attentiveness to questions of energy and infrastructures, as well as the shifting political geographies of data as both stuff in the world…

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