Critical Data / Critical AI - the European crowd
Most of the critical data/AI starter packs are US-heavy so here's one focusing on the European folks. Let me know who I've missed and I'll update! Also, going to tag colleagues in other regions to do corresponding packs for Latam, South/SE/E Asia, SSA, MENA...
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@linnetelwin.bsky.social
@hiroshi-lyda.bsky.social
Studying data systems at Eindhoven University of Technology. https://gfletche.win.tue.nl
@geoplace.bsky.social
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Publications: www.markgraham.space Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
@cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social
Sociologue 🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes 🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique 🔧 Travail invisible des données 🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique 📟 Quantification et standardisation
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@bierjess.bsky.social
Associate prof. of urban sociology Erasmus University Rotterdam Pro 🍉 ⚧️ 🏴☠️ PI: DIGIPORTS project, digitalization + racialization in maritime logistics Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
@daniel-howden.bsky.social
Founder & director at Lighthouse Reports, focused on migration, tech, surveillance. Previously at Economist, The Independent
@lighthousereports.com
Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
Investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports. Algorithms & surveillance. https://www.lighthousereports.com/team/gabriel-geiger/
@frederike.bsky.social
Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor✨ Also: EU Ai industrial policy & global governance for @ainowinstitute.bsky.social frederikekaltheuner.com
@technomoralfutures.bsky.social
Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation. Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
@zeerak.bsky.social
Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing. Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@aial.ie
Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
@lboungr.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society @kingsdh.bsky.social. Co-founder @publicdatalab.bsky.social. Member of @digitalmethods.net and @medialab-scpo.bsky.social. Website: lilianabounegru.org. Mastodon: assemblag.es/@lbngr
@jwyg.bsky.social
🐨 https://jonathangray.org/ 🌱 director @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social + reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london + cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social 🫧 feminist STS, data studies, digital methods, internet studies, poetic computation
@drsamaki.bsky.social
Ex-Privacy International. PhD African Studies from University of Edinburgh. Posts on digital identity, DPI, and human rights. Views own.
@gavinmueller.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day. Trying to keep it more professional here. Usually says yes.
@fdechesne.bsky.social
eLaw Leiden Univ - Ethics & Digital Technologies - AI & Society - background in math/phil/compsci/logic [intuitionistic mathematician at heart] Bringing the elephant into the room.
@goranbolin.bsky.social
Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University sh.se/mkv
@article19law.bsky.social
Defending freedom of expression and information through legal & policy reforms. Everywhere
@article19europe.bsky.social
Defending freedom of expression and information in Europe and Central Asia. #FoE #MediaFreedom #InformationIntegrity #SoJ
@emryss.bsky.social
digital, social & political transformation; research & policy @ Caribou Digital & fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement X: @emrys_s
@kerenweitzberg.bsky.social
#biometrics #borders #digitalidentity #migration #austerity #STS; senior lecturer in School of Politics and International Relations & IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
@adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
Making data & AI work for people & society. Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://nuffieldfoundation.tfaforms.net/149
@oii.ox.ac.uk
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department at the University of Oxford, that collectively helps shape the development of our digital world for the public good.
@ginasue.bsky.social
Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@fennaimara.bsky.social
Research fellow at UCL Geography researching the digitising state, urban infrastructure, and data justice. Currently working on Regional Futures and Digitalising Commons in Nairobi, Mumbai, and Guadalajara. (she/her) www.fennahoefsloot.com
@bprainsack.bsky.social
Prof @univie.ac.at @healthy-societies.bsky.social #PrecisionMedicine #Solidarity #DataGovernance #FutureOfWork | Chair #ethicsgroup_eu | @wiko-berlin.bsky.social (Fellow 2023/24)
@geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
An international and interdisciplinary journal on geopolitics https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgeo20
@bigdatasoc.bsky.social
Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
@dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social
A brand new interdisciplinary, international journal exploring how digitalisation has changed our world. Articles are in dialogue format with each article having peer commentary. https://journals-sagepub-com.may.idm.oclc.org/home/DDS
@rdbinns.bsky.social
Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford. Football alt at nofoolingreu.bsky.social
@informusiccs.bsky.social
Computer scientist, researcher, lecturer, musician. EEMCS TU Delft, TU Delft | The Hague, De Jonge Akademie. Responsible AI, information filtering, transdisciplinarity, validity, new perspectives.
@saifshahin.bsky.social
👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University 🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD ✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics 🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
@jud1th.bsky.social
Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at University of Hamburg. Editor of the Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy.
@fmeissner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics | University of Twente
@lisamreutter.bsky.social
PostDoc at the Center for Tracking and Society in Copenhagen. Researching public administration datafication. Goat person.
@slehuede.bsky.social
Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer @kingsdh.bsky.social. He/him http://slehuede.me.
@silviahedley.bsky.social
Associate prof #UniOslo, researching unfair #digitalID - #ICT4D, #platforms4d & their discontents - #homecooking posts👩🍳
@mayameme.bsky.social
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
@margchee.bsky.social
Lecturer in digital economy @kcl.ac.uk. Anthropologist. Researching tech and aid. https://about.me/cheesman
@couldrynick.bsky.social
I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
@madianou.bsky.social
Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
@robkitchin.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
@privacyinternational.org
For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power. https://privacyinternational.org We're currently working out which platform to prioritise so please bear with us!
@dallacorte.bsky.social
Assistant professor in data protection and cybersecurity law at Tilburg Law School. 12:50, press Return.
@lilianedwards.bsky.social
Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@azadehakbari.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Digital Transformation, University of Twente 🇮🇷🇩🇪 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow for the project authoritarian smart cities www.Azadeh-Akbari.com Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social *personal account*
@cearadau.bsky.social
everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
@emilianotrere.com
Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor @Universitat de València • Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies @Cardiff University • Codirector @DataJusticeLab • Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press, 2024) • Romagnolo
@ikkibop.bsky.social
Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
@julianejarke.bsky.social
Prof of Digital Societies at Uni Graz | #CriticalDataStudies - #FeministSTS - #ParticipatoryResearch in #education #ageing #publicsector | Feminist Sci-Fi & SolarPunk | www.sociodigitalfutures.info
@mereln.bsky.social
Ethics, Governance, AI, Tilburg Institute for Law Technology and Society
@abpowell.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/ Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
@linadencik.bsky.social
Professor and University Research Leader in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab.
@dakolkman.bsky.social
Sociologist of data and algorithms. Working on responsible data science and governance of algorithms.
@pondswimmer.bsky.social
scholar of risk & refusal | independent advisor on digital rights, tech & climate justice | postdoc on politics of AI & climate risk at the University of Amsterdam | ex research lead at the Engine Room | https://beckykazansky.net/about/
@ojgstrein.bsky.social
‘Human Dignity in the Digital Age’ - Assist Prof Governance & Innovation
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
@ccs.bsky.social
Anthropologist of internet industry Head of Digital @article19.bsky.social toots = personal Research affiliate @mctd.bsky.social & Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they https://corinnecath.com/messy-human/
@jvh.bsky.social
(he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights. @ivir-uva.bsky.social
@gijsvanmaanen.bsky.social
tech/data governance | political theory | sts | and a bit of pol economy | tilburg institute for law, technology, and society (tilt) institutional page: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/g-vanmaanen
@linnetelwin.bsky.social
Hanging around causing trouble in NL, working at Tilburg on data and representation. I’m sceptical about the whole thing tbh.