Public Data Lab

Professeur-e en "Etudes des plateformes numériques (platform Studies)" (6417)

✨job✨ assistant or associate professorship in platform studies at medialab, University of Geneva. Deadline 1st September. publicdatalab.org/2025/06/26/p...

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✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!

17.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies - Applications open – Public Data Lab The Public Data Lab is an interdisciplinary network exploring what difference the digital makes in attending to public problems.

applications open for Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies in Como, 22-26 September 2025: publicdatalab.org/2025/05/28/c...

29.05.2025 20:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

15.05.2025 08:51 — 👍 70    🔁 20    💬 7    📌 3

Screenshot of Memespector GUI tool.

What next for Memespector-GUI? Seeking feedback and input to inform next steps with this #opensource tool providing a graphical user interface for research with and about computer vision APIs: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/13/m...

17.03.2025 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us at EFI to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social as they share their work developing collaborative methods - 'Repurposing digital media for collective inquiry – notes from the Public Data Lab (2017-2025)' *4pm, 2nd April* edin.ac/3DCDVEF

14.03.2025 09:26 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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📢 🚨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

14.03.2025 12:29 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 4

an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.

Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan

12.03.2025 19:11 — 👍 25    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…

🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹

📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:

11.02.2025 13:46 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Job: Digital Methods Research Associate at Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen – Public Data Lab The Media of Cooperation Research Centre at the University of Siegen is hiring a Digital Methods Research Associate. Further details can be found here and copied below. [- – – – – – – ✄ – – – snip – –...

✨job✨ - the Media of Cooperation Research Centre at the University of Siegen is hiring a Digital Methods Research Associate. Read more and apply here: publicdatalab.org/2024/12/16/j...

16.12.2024 23:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

publication day of ✨digital ecologies✨ book - including our chapter with @lboungr.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on #amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics: jonathangray.org/2024/12/10/a...

10.12.2024 11:54 — 👍 46    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

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

09.12.2024 11:41 — 👍 40    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 0

Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research? Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025 – Public Data Lab The annual Digital Methods Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. The deadline for applications is 9 December 2024...

The @digitalmethods.net Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. Apply by 9th December. 📝✨ publicdatalab.org/2024/11/29/d... #digitalmethods

05.12.2024 10:56 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

text reads: "troubling AI - call for screenshots"

do you have screenshots of troubling interactions with AI? submit them to our call for screenshots to be featured in an online publication and workshop - now extended until 10th december 2024: publicdatalab.org/2024/10/24/t...

19.11.2024 19:52 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

Screenshot of: https://publicdatalab.org/ The text reads: "The Public Data Lab is an interdisciplinary network exploring what difference the digital makes in attending to public problems. We develop materials and formats for collective inquiry with and about digital data, digital methods and digital infrastructures. Here are some of our projects so far along with the people contributing to them:" Then there is a network diagram with coloured nodes representing different projects and researchers who contributed to them.

Text reads "@publicdatalab. Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules."

hiii! 👋🏼 We're an interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with and about digital data, methods and infrastructures - from forest soundscaping and climate media to offshore finance, political bots and algorithmic culture. (Also suspended on Twitter/X)

12.11.2024 09:17 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0