In conversation with Thomas Poell and Stefania Milan, Zeynep Tufekci talks about her educational journey from Turkey and Texas, tactics and infrastructure of 20th century and ongoing protest movements, and how the excess of information online has created new forms of censorship. She also discusses the importance of ins...

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Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus Uitermark

Feb 3rd, 2022

In this episode, we had drinks with Justus Uitermark at Cafe Droog, where we discussed the theories, methods, and work processes driving his and John Boy’s upcoming book: On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. Justus Uitermark is professor of Urban Geography at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of ...

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Global Data Justice & Tech Firms - Linnet Taylor

Dec 20th, 2021

In this episode, we invited Linnet Taylor to Thomas's cozy office at the University of Amsterdam to discuss global data justice and the growing power of contemporary tech firms over a hot cup of tea. Linnet Taylor is a Professor of International Data Governance at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society...

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Data Activism - Stefania Milan

Dec 20th, 2021

In this episode, Stefania Milan joined us behind the mic at Cafe Droog, where we talked about data activism, regulatory data infrastructures, and ways in which justice and equality can be achieved in a datafied society. Stefania Milan is an Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amst...

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Children and Data Justice - With Sara Grimes & Veronica Barassi

Apr 1st, 2021

With the increased use of digital technologies by children, new opportunities for empowerment and connection have emerged but, alongside this, the possibility of increased exploitation of this vulnerable group. In this webinar, scholars Dr. Sara Grimes and Dr. Veronica Barassi will discuss the current challenges facing...

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Global Digital Inequalities - Nishant Shah & Padmini Ray Murray

Feb 26th, 2021

This episode is part of the GDC Webinar series #2. Recorded on February 2021.How does digitisation reshape the distribution of cultural, economic, and political resources around the globe? Over the past decades, this has been a central question in activist, scholarly, and policy debate. In this webinar, feminist techn...

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Engaging with Online Sex Work - Lorelei Lee & Antonia Hernández

Feb 20th, 2021

Many concepts ‘meet’ each other in the practices of online sex work; physical & digital, pleasure & power, intimacy & publicness, body & labour. Not to forget how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect in this type of work. How can we engage in meaningful ways with these complexities and entangled real...

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Digital Sex Work in the Age of COVID - Angela Jones, Yvette Luhrs & Zaïre Krieger

Dec 11th, 2020

This episode is part of the GDC Webinar series that took place on September 2020.Digitization is transforming the global sex industry. With their low barrier of entry, live and highly interactive character, webcam sex platforms such as Chaturbate or LiveJasmin have become one of the sex industry’s most profitable and ...

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Programmed Racism - Sennay Ghebreab, Linnet Taylor & Payal Arora

Nov 24th, 2020

This episode is part of the GDC Webinar series that took place on september 2020.How do digital technologies mediate racism? It is increasingly clear that digital technologies, including auto-complete function, facial recognition, and profiling tools are not neutral but racialized in specific ways. This webinar focuse...

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Digital Public Infrastructures - Jack Linchuan Qiu, Seda Gürses & Geert-Jan Boogaerts

Nov 10th, 2020

This episode is part of the GDC Webinar series that took place on september 2020.Public institutions, from universities and museums to public service media and local governments, are rapidly becoming digitized. In this process, they increasingly depend on digital platforms, operated by major corporations, most promin...