Download the conference programme brochure as PDF version: Programme Brochure
Programme at a glance:
Day 1
| 8.00 – 9.00 | Registration (Sir Martin Evans Building) |
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Welcome (John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building) |
| 9.30 – 11.00 | Keynote Plenary 1: Data and Social Transformations (John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building) |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Parallel Sessions |
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Coffee Break |
| 15.45 – 17.15 | Parallel Sessions |
| 17.30 – 18.15 | Keynote (John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building) |
| 18.30 | Reception at National Museum of Wales |
Day 2
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Keynote Plenary 2: Data and Discrimination (John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Parallel Sessions |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 17.00 | End |
Keynotes and plenaries are held in the Sir Martin Evans Building. All other sessions take place in the Bute Building.
Detailed programme
DAY 1
8.00 – 9.00
| Registration Sir Martin Evans Building |
9.00 – 9.30
| Welcome John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building |
9.30 – 11.00
| Keynote Plenary I: Data and Social Transformations
Panel: Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths), Rob Kitchin (Maynooth University), David Lyon (Queen’s University) |
11.00 – 11.30
| Coffee break Bute Building |
11.30 – 13.00
| Parallel Sessions A Bute Building |
Data and ethics
Chair: Linnet Taylor
Room 0.14
| Making Data Ethics actionable Aline Franzke (University of Duisburg) and Iris Muis (Utrecht University) |
| On the Ethicality of Data Ethics: Cases from Utrecht and Singapore University Ingrid Hoofd (Utrecht University) |
| What we mean when we say ‘ethics’? Maya Indira Ganesh (Leuphana University) |
| Everyday justice in data science: what can ethics do? Marguerite Barry (University College Dublin) and Aphra Kerr (National University of Ireland Maynooth) |
| What gives? Sharing the reality of research data ethics Kelly Shephard (Institute of Development Studies) |
Data and politics
Chair: Inaki Garcia Blanco
Room 0.53
| Datafication, Feedback Loops and Social Reproduction William Jaques (York University) |
| Organisations and Data Justice: Reflections on Political Organisation from the Information Freedom Movement Julian von Bargen (York University) |
| Antiracism apps and the politics of data: Antiracism, evidence and the persistence of state violence Alana Lentin (Western Sydney University), Justine Humphry (The University of Sydney) and Tanja Dreher (The University of New South Wales) |
| Is lack of data protection law in Nigeria contributing to decreasing spaces for freedom of speech? Amapamoere Ere (Montford University) |
| Artifical Intelligence in news production and distribution: How to deal with bias and trust in media and technology Pieter Verdegem and Mercedes Bunz (University of Westminster) |
Data and labour
Chair: Lina Dencik
Room 1.20
| Data justice meets digital labour studies in the age of platform economy Yujie Chen (University of Leicester) |
| Platform Labour: The Invisible Boss and the Datafied Worker Alessandro Gandini (King’s College London) |
| Is Uber Really Everywhere? Analyzing Driver Supply & Strategies in Los Angeles Sanna Ali (Stanford University) and Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) |
| Airbnb and the Internet of Things: An infrastructure of exclusion? Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh) |
| Digital Labour, fandom and the platformisation of politics Penny Andrews (University of Sheffield) |
Data politics in a global context
Chair: Emiliano Treré
Room 1.40
| The datafication of anti-poverty programmes Silvia Masiero (Loughborough University) |
| Urban Data Justice: Inequality, Exclusion and Datafication in the Global South Richard Heeks (University of Manchester) and Satyarupa Shekhar (Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group) |
| Resisting unaccountable state dataveillance: activist learnings from the global South Jane Duncan (University of Johannesburg) |
| Of Data Cultures and Data F(r)ictions: Notes on training, transformation, and the decentering data futures from Latin American startup ecologies Anita Say Chan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| Emerging databased democracies in China and India Payal Arora (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) |
Workshop
Room 0.31a
| Critical Datafication: A Practical Demonstration of tools for critical data making about invisible infrastructures Alessandra Renzi, Fenwick McKelvey, Tom Hackbarth (Concordia University) and Evan Light (York University) |
13.00 – 14.00
| Lunch |
14.00 – 15.30
| Parallel Sessions B Bute Building |
Data activism
Chair: Stefania Milan
Room 0.14
| From Agonism to a Politics of Refusal: Three Political Theories of Data Activism Morgan Currie (Stanford University) |
| HISTORY OF _RT: arts-based data activism dissecting the ‘official’ Art History Gabriel Pereira (Aarhus University) and Bruno Moreschi (Unicamp) |
| Hacktivism and the hacker ethic in the data society Silvia Semenzin (University of Milan) |
| Our data futures: towards non-data-centric data activism Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) and Tuukka Lehtiniemi (Aalto University) |
| Data Activism and Infrastructural Imagination Jonathan Gray (King’s College London) |
Data and theories of justice
Chair: Fieke Jansen
Room 0.53
| Big Data and the Question of Justice Nadine Sutmöller (Europa Universität Flensburg) |
| Toward a Conception of Data Violence: Data Justice Beyond Distributions Anna Lauren Hoffmann (University of Washington) |
| Towards data justice: what kind of justice for what kinds of data practices Raphael Gellert (Tilburg University) |
| Understanding the risk of data constructivism: Achieving justice by incorporating risk governance Tobias Scholz and Volker Stein (University of Siegen) |
| In Pursuit of Data Justice: Rights Claims and the Submissive Data Citizen Guy Hoskins (York University) |
Data in the city
Chair: Arne Hintz
Room 1.20
| The Geography of Our Digital Rights to the City Mark Graham and Martin Dittus (University of Oxford) |
| Experimentality in Data-Driven Governance Leah Horgan (University of California, Irvine) |
| State-led Gentrification of London and the Case of the Missing Data on Displacees Sue Easton and Loretta Lees (University of Leicester) |
| Smart cities, data infrastructures and social difference in a new town Alan Miguel Valdez and Nick Bingham (The Open University) |
| Visibilities in the city: Defining parameters for big data usage regarding vulnerable urban populations Jason Pridmore, Liesbet van Zoonen (Erasmus University) and Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) |
Data on the border
Chair: Maria Kyriakidou
Room 1.40
| Migration research and control in the era of big data Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University) |
| Visualising Love: Disrupting Migrant Datafication Emma Agusita (University of the West of England) |
| Border Probes: Experiences with the new Canadian-American Frontier Evan Light (University of York) |
| Datafication of Mobile Lives: Discrimination through Algorithmic Selection Anu Masso (ETH Zürich/University of Tartu) |
| Phones or Fingerprints? Seeking asylum in an age of Big Data Philippa Metcalfe (Cardiff University) |
Workshop
Room 0.31a
| Trust by Design: Foregrounding User Concerns in Emerging Internet of Things Ansgar Koene, Stefan Larsson, Derek McAuley, Virginia Portillo, Per Runeson and Lachlan Urquhart (University of Nottingham and Lund University) |
15.30 – 15.45
| Coffee break |
15.45 – 17.15
| Parallel Session C Bute Building |
Datafication of public life
Chair: Joanna Redden
Room 0.14
| Surveillance State by Stealth? The Case of the Public Services Card and Data Privacy in Ireland Cristin O’Rourke and Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University) |
| Public spaces in government data use Emily Rempel, Julie Barnett and Hannah Durrant (University of Bath) |
| Data/infrastructure ownership, and the future of public services in the smart city Gunes Tavmen (Birkbeck, University of London) |
| Data Ethics: A critical analysis on ‘big mother’ in datafied nurseries Bei Chen (University of Sheffield) |
| In Laotianye We Trust: Big Data, Social Credit, and Chinese Governance Adam Knight (University of Oxford) |
Colonising and decolonising data
Chair: Usha Raman
Room 0.53
| From colonial archives to (post)colonial databases – assembling Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) in Sub-Saharan Africa and post-Soviet Central Asia Sarah Fichtner (independent) and Nelli Piattoeva (University of Tampere) |
| Decolonial computing, data colonialism and the rise of the social media internet Wendy Willems (London School of Economics) |
| Decolonising ‘Datafication’ Discourse Syed Mustafa Ali (The Open University) |
| Decolonising Techno-Utopias: Human Failings, Digital Remedies Emma Harrison (University of Sussex) |
| Data Colonialism and Data Protection Reform: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Latin America Rebekah Larsen (University of Cambridge) |
Auditing, explaining and accountable data
Chair: Rosamunde Van Brakel
Room 1.20
| Justification and understanding of algorithmic decisions – what can explanations bring? Francien Dechesne (Leiden University) |
| Auditing Classifiers William Seymour (University of Oxford) |
| Towards Good Data Practice: Making Network Visualisation in Gephi Accountable Daniela van Geenen (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht), Maranke Wieringa and Karin Van Es (Utrecht University) |
| Can a Human Rights-Based Approach Add Value to Algorithmic Accountability Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray and Vivian Ng (University of Essex) |
Workshop
Room 0.31a
| Mining back: Data skills for researching corporations and governments Anna Feigenbaum, Tom Sanderson and Daniel Weissmann (Bournemouth University) |
Workshop
Room 0.52
| Data Policies: Policy Hackathon Arne Hintz and Jess Brand (Cardiff University) |
17.30 – 18.15
| Keynote: Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change) John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building |
18.30
| Reception at National Museum for Wales |
DAY 2
9.00 – 10.30
| Keynote Plenary II: Data and Discrimination
Panel: Solon Barocas (Cornell University), Sasha Costanza-Chock (MIT), Seeta Peña Gangadharan (London School of Economics) |
10.30 – 11.00
| Coffee break Bute Building |
11.00 – 12.30
| Parallel Sessions D Bute Building |
Questioning data
Chair: Seda Guerses
Room 0.14
| Questioning Data Universalism Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) and Emiliano Treré (Cardiff University) |
| The person in the data: Patient subjectivity in the networked clinic Usha Raman (University of Hyderabad) |
| Data as Evidence: Towards new ontologies and approaches to provenance Suneel Jethani (University of Melbourne) |
| Data Ontology: Semantic Bias in Knowledge Representation Languages Andrew Iliadis (Temple University) |
| Making Up People with Data: Dynamic Nominalism and Algorithmic Human Kinds Reuben Binns (University of Oxford) |
Politics of infrastructure and design
Chair: George Danezis
Room 0.53
| Ownership and Distributive Justice in Blockchain-based Value Transfers Mattis Jacobs (University of Hamburg) |
| Control and sovereignty via blockchains Oliver Leistert (Leuphana University) |
| Is design enough? A worked example of privacy and ethics by design in data technology David Barnard-Wills, Rachel Finn and Anna Donovan (Trilateral Research) |
| Data Feminism & Design Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Exclusion by design: Exploring the links between social, digital and data exclusion Sora Park (University of Canberra), John Campbell (Australian National University), Justine Humphry, and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) |
What and whose data?
Chair: Joris Van Hoboken
Room 1.20
| Of Data, Relationships and Legal Protection Nadezhda Purtova (Tilburg University) |
| Use of Non-personal Data in Profiling Thomas Struett and Elif Sert (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
| Towards a unifying taxonomy of personal data, data ownership, and digital privacy Yenn Lee (SOAS) |
| Varieties of Consumer Credit Data Regimes: Conceptualization and Classification Inbar Mizrachy Borohovich and David Levi-Faur (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Recording data harms Joanna Redden (Cardiff University) |
Civil society and data
Chair: Isobel Rorison
Room 1.40
| Between data and discrimination. European civil society practices in the context of data-driven technologies Jedrzej Niklas (London School of Economics) |
| It depends on your threat model: Understanding strategies for uncertainty amidst digital surveillance and data exploitation Becky Kazansky (University of Amsterdam) |
| The Danish Labour Movement, Social Media and Big Data Analytics Torsten Geelan (Leicester University) |
| Contention and Control: Protest in the age of datafication Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam) |
| Questioning participatory action research (PAR) in an era of datafication Lynn Schofield Clark (University of Denver) |
Workshop
Room 0.31a
| How to save a home: Artist/Activist/Research of local authority housing databases and their role in urban regeneration Tom Keene (Goldsmiths) |
12.30 – 13.30
| Lunch |
13.30 – 15.00
| Parallel Sessions E Bute Building |
Data and the environment
Chair: Anna Feigenbaum
Room 0.14
| Climate Justice and Data Justice: Environmental hackathons and the politics of data Adrienne Russell (University of Washington) and Matt Tegelberg (University of York) |
| Nature and networked space: conceptual lessons for data justice from environmental literature Shazade Jameson (Tilburg University) |
| Towards an Environmental Data Justice Framework Lourdes Vera (Northeastern University) and Dawn Walker (University of Toronto) |
| Algorithmic Integrity, Data Provenance and Land Use in Kenya James Lowry (Liverpool University) |
| Planting seeds for a more equitable future: Data governance in agriculture Rian Wanstreet (University of Washington) |
Data, affect and everyday life
Chair: Jenny Kidd
Room 0.53
| Surveillant Anxiety: The Datafication of Affect Adam Kingsmith (York University) |
| Feeling datafication: self-tracked ICTs, mirrored digital traces, and affective intensities of data mining Minna Saariketo (Aalto University) |
| The Child as a Datafied Citizen? Datafication, Messiness and Algorithmic Inaccuracy in Family Life Veronica Barassi (Goldsmiths) |
| Social construction of algorithms: Advocating users within the discourse Katrin Fritsch (London School of Economics) |
| Literacy: the best concept for understanding how we make sense of data and its visualisation? Lulu Pinney (University of Sheffield) |
Predicting crime
Chair: Mikkel Flyverbom
Room 1.20
| Predictive Policing as Preemption? Simon Egbert (University of Hamburg) |
| New surveillance technologies in Brazil: the policing of social movements Eduardo Fernandes (Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul/Scuola Normale Superiore) |
| Justice, Surveillance and Hybrid Policing in Resource Extraction Julie Uldam (Roskilde University) and Hans Krause Hansen (Copenhagen Business School) |
| Police Data as Paradox Stacy Wood (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Automated justice’: predictive analytics in criminal justice settings Ales Zavrsnik (Collegium Helveticum Zurich/Institute of Criminology Ljubljana) |
Roundtable: Data Justice in the Workplace (co-organised by DATAJUSTICE and Data & Society)
Room 1.40
| Lina Dencik (DATAJUSTICE) |
| Aiha Nguyen (Data & Society) |
| Jamie Woodcock (Oxford Internet Institute) |
| Stefan Baskerville (New Economics Foundation) |
| Victor Figueroa (International Transit Workers’ Federation) |
| Christina Colclough (UNI Global Union) |
Workshop
Room 0.31a
| Data Investigations Fieke Jansen (Cardiff University) and Christo Buschek (independent) |
15.00 – 15.30
| Coffee break |
15.30 – 17.00
| Parallel Sessions F Bute Building |
Data and citizen participation
Chair: Natalie Fenton
Room 0.14
| Datafication of citizen participation in Madrid and Taiwan through Open Source Software-enabled Platforms – towards a better democracy, or a hackable one? Yu-Shan Tseng (Durham University) |
| Me, my data and I: The future of the personal data economy Tom Symons and Theo Bass (Nesta) |
| Design for data justice: Building civil engagement through participatory technologies Dawn Walker (University of Toronto) |
| Enforcing Equal Benefit and Application of the Law: Turning the Tables on Corporate and Government Accountability through Collective Legal Action and Civilian Data Analysis Joanna Lehrer (J Lehrer Law) |
| Citizen social science for data justice Alexandra Albert (University of Manchester) |
Data, indigenous communities and activism
Chair: Alessandra Renzi
Room 0.53
| Indigenous responses to datafication: Indigenous Data Sovereignty movements Donna Cormack, Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie Rainie-Carroll, Maggie Walter (Data Sovereignty Network) |
| Challenging Knowledge-making in the Extractive Zone Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco) |
| The potential of drones’ monitoring for Indigenous communities at risk Anna Berti Suman (Tilburg University) |
| Creating Barriers to Determination of Structurally Cohesive Subgroups Yasmeen Mussard-Afcari and Adam Eck (Oberlin College) |
Political economy of datafication
Chair: Veronica Barassi
Room 1.20
| The political economy of invisible infrastructures Rasmus Helles, Signe Sophus Lai and Stine Lomborg (University of Copenhagen) |
| The Limits of Relevance: Location Analytics, Geodemographic Targeting, and the Production of Valuable Subjects Harrison Smith (Newcastle University) |
| Costing the Limits of Surveillance: Rethinking Foucault & Deleuze Greg Elmer (Ryerson University) and Bahar Nasirzaeh (University of York) |
| Finance and Digital Infrastructure: Tax (and) Climate Considerations Patrick Brodie (Concordia University) |
Workshop
Room 0.05
| Museum of Random Memory: Sonic absences, rhythmic presences and the sound of forgetting Annette Markham, Gabriel Pereira (Aarhus University), Dalida Maria Benfield and Christopher Bratton (Center for Arts, Design & Social Research), Mórna O’Connor (University of Nottingham), Anu A. Harju (University of Helsinki), Robert Ochshorn, Melissa Boucher, DJ Milton Peña, Robert Brooks, Antonio Santos (independent researcher, artist) |
17.00
| End |