Yana Boeva, PhD

I haven't read it yet but Karen Hao's Empire of AI seems to be a great read for students. Some contemporary Sci-Fi that works for students: Ishigiro's Klara and the Sun, Martha Wells' Murderbot and Chambers' Monk and Robot or Wayfarer series have all fantastic reflections of human-AI relationships

Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master (cultural history) and Antonio Cassilli's Waiting for Robots (empirical) explore the socio-material ideologies of AI through labor relations. I also like James Bridle Way of Being for its artistic reflection of AI and connection to the more-than-human.

Flier for the Data Voids call for papers - Special Session at 4th Digital Geographies Conference, 3-4 November 2025, Lisbon

Data Voids Call for Papers - Special Session at 4th Digital Geographies Conference, 3-4 November 2025, Lisbon The deadline for abstracts is April 30. Please read the Data Stories project blog for further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=670

On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

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🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍
Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power!
📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual)
📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025
🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
@bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Very cool CFP from @abenanav.bsky.social and Susannah Glickman in International Labor and Working Class History

"The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence"

Remember when academic publishers signed multi-million dollar AI training data deals with big tech and promised great AI-driven transformations to publishing services from looting academic work without notice or consent?

Here's how that's going.

This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported.

It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.

📢 🚨PHD POSITION📢🚨

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⚡❤️ Computational anthropology, 🤖😀 human-centred AI, and 🏴‍☠️🗿 cultural value alignment with LLMs.

Come work with me (supervisor), @britwinthereik.bsky.social (co-supervisor), and the team @echodtu.bsky.social and HCI.

Deadline May 1, 2025
Starting August 1, 2025

Anyone have a favorite reading on "wicked problems" for undergrads who are engaged and care about social justice but designing and analyzing stuff for the first time?

Poster for call for papers on the topic Utopian Media Studies.

🚨 CFP: *Convergence* Special Issue
Utopian Media Studies: Research for collective forms of becoming otherwise

New media scholars do not just diagnose current issues around media, they also provide strategies for hope.

500 word abstracts due 1 March 2025
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Happy to share my new open access article "Computer-Aided Design in the United States, 1949–1984: Designing in a Closed World" which is now 'trending' with the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Keep it coming!

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BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Alex Taylor Thursday, 30th January 2025 [Inspace / Zoom]

Our seminar series is kicking off this semester with Dr Alex Taylor on 'Red Teaming and the Operationalising of Responsibility', Thu 30 Jan at 4pm.

Get your ticket now! 👇

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@designinf.bsky.social @inspacegallery.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social

I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)

Working on crafty digital / digital crafty things? Christina Corfield & I are co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories (@femmediahist.bsky.social) on "Craftwork within the Digital." 500-word proposal due Feb 15. #DHmakes

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Very excited about the (Un)stable Diffusions @jdsr.bsky.social special issue by Fenwick McKelvey, Joanna Redden, Jonathan Roberge & @lukestark.bsky.social questioning how Critical AI Studies can attend to publics, publicities, and publicizations of #generativeAI: publicera.kb.se/jdsr/issue/v...

🌍 Call for Contributions: Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism 🌍

taschn.bsky.social and I, cheimstaedt.bsky.social, invite submissions for a special issue exploring how sustainability is valued in economic activity.

🌱 Full details here: valuationstudies.liu.se/valuing_sust...

Heute!

Als COVID-19 😷 die meisten wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen virtuell werden ließ, haben wir uns entschlossen, ein anderes Format auszuprobieren und ein Konferenzpanel in einen #Podcast umzuwandeln.

Das lief so gut, dass wir nun drei Staffeln lang daran festgehalten haben!

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This is exciting. We’re hiring a new lecturer in STS. Let me know if you want to discuss, and please repost and share.

For folks interested in 4S this year, @kbuse.bsky.social, Ari Gass, and I are running a track for Game Studies and STS. Consider applying!

(Re)-Publication day 🎉

Our co-edited volume is out day. Kudos to my amazing co-editor @vernelleaanoel.bsky.social and all the contributing authors! You can check out the book here:

www.routledge.com/Critical-Com...

#computation #STS #design #architecture #urban #ML

We're recruiting Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance, York University, Canada. Deadline 20 Dec 2024. More about role contained in the job ad: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

Working with myself, @tdagne.bsky.social & Rob Gehl

#AIethics #AIgovernance #STS #techlaw

www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

Obviously, all this has downsides to the life and development in both countries. But at least, those who have to travel by land are not treated as 2nd-class Europeans at borders anymore. Yet, the borders will continue to live on in people's heads. This can't be resolved by signing an agreement.

Happy to read this today. Long overdue and a small success towards reuniting Europe! 🇪🇺Europe's social life and economy depends so much on Bulgarians and Romanians working and living abroad for whom car mobililty is a necessity rather than choice. This reduces a little their depriviliging. (1/2)

Have you got a screenshot of an encounter with AI which is unsettling, strange, surprising, laughable or troubling? Still time to submit to our call for screenshots! A selection will be featured in an online publication and workshop. Deadline end of 10th Dec (any time zone): troubling-ai.glitch.me

🚨Registration is now open for the AlgoSoc Conference 2025: The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society!

🗓️ April 10-11, 2025
📍Amsterdam

We encourage early registration to secure your spot!
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#AlgoSoc2025 #AI #PublicValues

<berlin> Michael Taussig in dec | Fairy Castles Gliding Like Swans: A Meditation on Drawing While Writing | part of Scale
Lecture Series 2024-25 | @iciberlin | www.ici-berlin.org/events/micha...

Futures work: Liliana Doganova (2024) Discounting the future: The ascendency of a political technology (Zone Books) This paper utilizes Liliana Doganova’s book (Discounting the future: The ascendancy of a political technology, 2024, Zone Books) to explore the provocations science and technology studies scholars ...

In a new initiative, Editorial Board members are writing extended review essays of recently published books that provoke debates important to the journal. First up, Daniel Neyland on Discounting the Future by Liliana Doganova, published by Zone Books

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