Sadly already heading back home from a delightful #stsItalia23 conference. I take with me another travel experience, exciting projects about creative processes and their choreographies, analysing unstructured and big, qualitative data, and more. Always nice to meet new, inspiring people and considering emailing them ;D
Most importantly, my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to organizers, convenors, staff of the event and the university of bologna! Cheerio!

Wonderful talk by ENS' latest asset, Migle Bareikyte, on the future of software development work with AI. She and colleagues from Siegen created canvas and card deck approach for developers to fathom and articulate their imagination, concerns, and feelings about their future work with AI. It also featured distinct notions of (AI) creativity as high quality solution, task and teach (!) capabilities. #stsItalia23

Hi, it's me presenting on #DataSkop at #stsItalia23

Kicking off day two of #stsItalia23 with a wonderful talk by our colleague, Marysm Tatari, who introduced and guided us through public service media history from teletext to online subtitles. Her talk shed highlights on how those technologies render and correspond with notions of disability, inclusion, law, and policy.

#STS #PSM

Yesterday, someone referred to trees as 'natural non-human agents'. Within an #ANT framework. Felt like a crime.

#stsItalia23 #STS

Human-machine-coproduction

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Cool talk by @SuzetteKahlert (not biased, promise) in the very cool panel 28: the politization of infrastructures. Between talks on semiconductors, open science, data cables, ships, and trains, she introduced caveats and myths of decentralized infrastructures the example of matrix.org.

If you are reading this post, you know the ambivalence of decentralized services, its issues with moderating its own and federated content, and how security still remains an issue of trust and technological expertise. Encryption is never to be assumed default.
However, this is a fortiori important where it is considered a low threshold solution for all kinds of scattered agents to implement and run, e.g. as a easy messaging infrastructure for administration or services like universities. These shifts in power, access, and anewed opacity and struggles about regulation must kept in mind if there shall be a transformation into European infrastructure autonomy.

#stsItalia23 #STS #Infrastrcture #Decentralization

On our way to #STSItalia23 (looking good so far travel-wise), looking forward to discussing the experimental digital methods (not necessarily experiments) and the future of research (with you)?

Anywho, if you're there, why not join us on thursday?

https://www.conftool.org/stsitalia2023/index.php?page=browseSessions&ismobile=true&form_session=41

#DataSkop #DigitalHumanities #STS #ExperimentalMethods #DataDonation

Registered for #stsitalia23 (you can still be an early bird!). So here is my review:

+ really cool to separate fees by non/presenter & un/tenured (instead of 100% or 75% or phd and all that arbitrary stuff. I think this really vibes with the economic reality of colleagues and the stability and plannability of their expenses.

- Now, why would you, especially at an STS event, use recaptcha at registration? Why don't you use friendlycaptcha? Or just deal with bots? Who are you? Some web3 retail startup?