Programme at a glance:
Day 1
| 9 .00 – 9.30 | Welcome |
| 9.30 – 11.00 | Keynote Plenary 1 |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Coffee Break |
| 11.15 – 12.45 | Parallel Sessions A |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 – 15.15 | Parallel Sessions B |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Parallel Sessions C |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Roundtable |
| 19.30 – 22.00 | RECEPTION |
Day 2
| 9.30 – 11.00 | Parallel Sessions D |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Coffee Break |
| 11.15 – 12.45 | Parallel Sessions E |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 – 15.15 | Keynote Plenary 2 |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Parallel Sessions F |
| 17.00 | Conference End |
Detailed programme
DAY 1
9:00
| WELCOME (Room 0.06) |
9:30 – 11:00
| KEYNOTE PLENARY 1: EXPERIENCES AT THE MARGINS (Room 0.06) Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, University of London), Patrick Williams (Manchester Metropolitan University), Hamid Khan (StopLAPDSpying Coalition). Chair: Alison Powell |
11:00 – 11:15
| COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase) |
11:15 – 12:45
PARALLEL SESSIONS A
GOVERNING PUBLICS WITH DATA (chair: Joanna Redden, Room 1.06)
| Diletta Huyskes (University of Milan) The social construction of algorithms in public services: Making sense of their impacts between Italy and the Netherlands |
| Andreas Jorgensen (Aalborg University) Democratising datafied social work with marginalised communities |
| Juan Diego Castanedo Gomez (University of Erfurt) No mistakes: Infallibility of the digital welfare state and beneficiary marginalization |
| Lena Podoletz and Morgan Currie (Edinburgh University) Automating Universal Credit: A case of temporal punitiveness |
| Rafaela Alcantara (Institute of Technology Assessment) Smart cities and feminist perspectives on the urban space: Connecting the dots towards the right to the city |
DATA STEWARDSHIP (chair: Jedrzej Niklas, Room 1.08)
| Gijs Vanmaanen (Utrecht University), Tommaso Fia (European University Institute) Data commons: Autonomy, redistribution, and responsiveness |
| Aditya Singh (University of Edinburgh) Data stewardship from a collective critical lens – The case of data driven agriculture |
| Gary Leeming and Emily Rempel (Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative) Challenges of developing new models for civic data stewardship for the Liverpool City Region |
| Manuel Portela and Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Challenges and opportunities for building a community-led data trust under the European regulation |
| Gaurika Chaturvedi (University of Amsterdam) Data control for whom? The European Commission’s Digital Wallet |
DATA MEMORIES AND CULTURES (Chair: Luke Stark, Room 1.09)
| Jo Bates, Itzelle Medina Perea, Erinma Ochu, Monika Fratczak (University of Sheffield) Patterns in practice: Deepening understanding of data cultures for better AI futures |
| Anne Lee Steele (Alan Turing Institute) Comparative perspectives on the human infrastructures behind open knowledge |
| Edith Darin (University of Oxford) Blending the ‘map’ and the ‘census’ in regulating a country: The use of satellite imagery for population estimation in hard-to-reach areas |
| Marco Humbel (University College London) Archival activism and data ethics |
| Benedict Olgado (University of California) Datafied mnemopolitics: Databases, agonism, and transitional justice |
WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)
| From the personal to the collective: Bringing context to reimagine impact assessments (Jacklyn Sawyer and Gulsen Guler, Columbia University) |
ONLINE PANEL: DATA COLONIALISM, NATIONALISM AND INJUSTICE (Chair: Cate Hopkins, Room 1.05)
| Pradipa Rasidi (EngageMedia) “Inevitable forces of progress” – Technonationalist datafication and ideologies of developmentalism in OIndonesia |
| Roohollah Honarvar (Sharif University of Technology), Ahmadreza Boroumandi (Amirkabir University of Technology) and Bayan Khosravi (Mehralborz Higher Education Institute) Fallen between the gaps: Seeking justice for informal users in the datafied society |
| Safir Abdullah (Cambridge University) Datafied interiority: A framework for understanding the violence of data colonialism on human subjects |
| Nikita Sonavane and Sanjana Meshram (Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project Digitising caste: Criminal databases and policing in India |
12:45 – 13:45
| LUNCH (Social Staircase) |
13:45 – 15:15
PARALLEL SESSIONS B
RACIALISATION AND RACISM (Chair: Philippa Metcalfe, Room 1.06)
| Jill Toh (University of Amsterdam) Conceptualising racialised labour and the platform economy |
| Ainhoa Douhaibi (Universiitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Aito Jimenez (University of Melbourne) Datafying racism in Catalonia |
| Aunam Quyoum and Mark Wong (University of Glasgow) Co-producing dialogues and valuing lived experience to counter racial inequality in everyday digital services |
| Tiera Tanksley (University of Colorado at Boulder) Glitching the System: How Black youth resist and redesign racist technologies towards collective liberation |
| Eva Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey, John Richardson (Sheffield University) Resisting the datafication of hate |
INCLUSION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (Chair: Arne Hintz, Room 1.08)
| Emily Rempel (University of Liverpool) How can the imagined characteristics of a public inhibit or promote their inclusion in public engagement around data? |
| Elizabeth Nelson (Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland) From the inside out: Examining the role of public engagement and involvement in democratising data within a data-driven research centre |
| Joe Noteboom (University of Edinburgh) Exploring university students’ lived experiences of datafication, data literacies and the potential for collective data governance in UK higher education |
| Lorenzo Dalvit (Rhodes University) Data justice and the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa |
| Brian Tshuma (Southern Data Clinic LBG) Emerging civil society responses to datafication in Ghana |
DATAFIED HEALTH (Chair: Lisa Reutter, Room 1.09)
| Silvia Masiero, Alina Krogstad, Guro Handeland, Johannes Fatland Skjeie, Jens Kaasbøll (University of Oslo) Health data justice in Malawi: Scannable codes as coordinative artefacts |
| Ariel Guersenzvaig (Barcelona School of Design and Engineering) Can machine learning make naturalism about health truly naturalistic? A reflection on a data-driven conception of health |
| Yu Sun (University of Glasgow) and Wilfred Yang Wang (University of Melbourne) Space of algorithmic surveillance: A study of China’s health code system (jiankang ma) and its COVID-19 governance |
| Isobel Rorison (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University) Datafication and health inequalities |
| Pinar Barlas (University of Western Ontario) A critical look at critical care data: MIMIC-IV’s construction, contents & potential consequences |
WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)
| Roundtable: Digital Technologies in the Anthropocene: Data Justice Meets Environmental Justice (Ana Valdivia, Oxford University and Sebastián Lehuedé, Cambridge University) |
ONLINE PANEL: SECURITY, RISK AND RIGHTS IN DATAFIED SOCIETIES (Chair: Jessica Brand, Room 1.05)
| Stefano Calzati (TU Delft) Conceptualising the data republic: Fair data ecosystems as a way to balance individual and collective rights and principles |
| Alexandra Ciocănel, David Beer, Roger Burrows, James Cussens, and Alison Wallace (University of York and University of Bristol) From bank statements to Open Banking: The digitalisation of financial information in tenant referencing |
| Sucheta Lahiri (Syracuse University) Managing data risk, data justice, and labor in the Global South |
| Natalie Byrom (Legal Education Foundation) Democratising digital justice – Overcoming challenges to incorporating lived and collective experience into court data governance |
15:15 – 15:30
| COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase) |
15:30 – 17:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS C
DATA AND AI GOVERNANCE (Chair: Aphra Kerr, Room 1.06)
| Siddharth de Souza and Linnet Taylor (University of Tilburg) Norm entrepreneurs and data governance |
| Stefan Baack (Mozilla Foundation) and Danny Lämmerhirt (TU Dortmund) Alternative data governance projects: Pioneers of collective data practices? |
| Karine Gentelet (UQO) and Sandrine Lambert (Université Laval) Civil society participation and governance on artificial intelligence (AI) issues in a transnational context |
| Jef Ausloos (University of Amsterdam) Collective data empowerment and the GDPR |
DATA SOLIDARITIES (Chair: Becky Kazansky, Room 1.08)
| Helen Kennedy, Susan Oman, Hannah Ditchfield (University of Sheffield) Everyday data solidarities as collective experiences in the datafied society |
| Tiziano Bonini (University of Siena), Emiliano Trere (Cardiff University), Zizheng Yu (Greenwich University), Swati Singh (University of Delhi), Daniele Cargnelutti (Universidad de Guanajuato), Francisco Javier López-Ferrández (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) Cooperative affordances: How to learn, resist and build solidarity in the platform society |
| Julian Posada (Yale University) Data work and territory: How artificial intelligence depends on solidarity |
| Cate Hopkins (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University) Collective action in a digitised workplace |
| Vassilis Charitsis (Brunel University), Mikko Laamanen (Oslo Metropolitan University), Tuukka Lehtiniemi (Helsinki University) Towards algorithmic luddism: Theorizing class struggles in datafied societies |
DATAFIED EDUCATION (Chair: Silvia Masiero, Room 1.09)
| Jana Fedtke (Northwestern University Qatar) Data justice in digital education |
| Claudia Figueras and Alexandra Farazouli (Stockholm University) Teachers’/Developers’ insights and experiences with automated grading systems in higher education |
| Veli Hillman and Molly Esquivel (LSE) The ‘solution’ stack of a neoliberal inferno apparatus: A call for teacher conscience |
| Irving Huerta (Cambridge University) Cambridge Data Schools: A critical pedagogy approach for teaching data |
| Irina Zakharova (University of Bremen) Mapping educational data infrastructures: Regulation, participation, and care |
PROJECT PRESENTATION (Room 1.10.A)
| Researching Data Justice (Lina Dencik, Fieke Jansen, Philippa Metcalfe, Jedrzej Niklas, Javier Sanchez-Monedero and Jessica Brand, Data Justice Lab) |
ONLINE PANEL: INTERROGATING THE STATE AND DATA GOVERNANCE (Chair: Isobel Rorison, Room 1.05)
| AJ Withers (Simon Fraser University) Combatting epistemic injustice by using state data against the state |
| Andrew Crosby (University of Waterloo), Alexander McClelland (Carleton University) and Rohan Khan (Queens University) Tracking (In)Justice: Documenting police use of force-involved deaths in Canada |
| Bryce Newell and Vincent Huynh-Watkins (University of Oregon) Abstracting injustice: Abrogating democratic governance through code and the algorithm |
| James Shaw (University of Toronto) and Sharifah Sekalala (University of Warwick) Health data justice: Building new norms for health data governance |
| Maurice Jones and Meaghan Wester (Concordia University) Machine learning logics of public participation in AI governance |
17:00 – 18:00
| ROUNDTABLE: POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS IN DATA AND AI (Room 0.06) Dan Mcquillan (Goldsmiths, University of London), Sarah Murphy (Member of the Senedd), Rosa Curling (Foxglove), Kaelynn Narita (NoTechForTyrants). Chair: Natalie Fenton. |
19:30 – 22:00
| RECEPTION (Aberdare Hall) |
DAY 2
9:30 – 11:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS D
RETHINKING RELATIONS OF DATA GOVERNANCE (Chair: Linnet Taylor, Room 1.06)
| Tracey Lauriault (Carleton University) Indigenous data governance: Collective data justice experiences in action |
| Sebastian Lehuede (Cambridge University) Friends or foes? Data sovereignty’s relation to decoloniality |
| SJ Bennett (University of Edinburgh) What does relational governance mean for data collaboratives? |
| Katelyn Cioffi (NYU School of Law) Beyond mitigation: Can collective rights and remedies lead to more effective recourse for digital ID-enabled harms? |
| Luke Stark (University of Western Ontario) Laws of inference: Conceptual limits for automated decision-making |
DOING DATA RESEARCH (chair: Helen Kennedy, room 1.08)
| Joseph Donia (University of Toronto). Fiona Webster (Western University), Jennifer Gibson and Jay Shaw (University of Toronto) Institutional ethnography and data justice: Concepts, tensions, and practical applications |
| Alison Powell, Louise Hickman, Marie-Therese Png, Alexa Hagerty, Teresa Dillon, Grace Juster (JUST AI Network) Research networking as emancipatory practice: The JUST AI Network |
| Andrea Medrado and Pieter Verdegem (University of Westminster) Rethinking methodological perspectives in AI research: Lessons from a South to North approach |
| Rosemary Cisneros (Coventry University) When lived experience and data don’t align: Dance leadership in the UK |
| Katie MacKinnon and Brittany Melton (Western University Ontario) Datafication and responsibility: A researcher’s role in thorny social media ethics |
SURVEILLANCE AND PRIVACY (Chair: Stefania Milan, Room 1.09)
| Dan M. Kotliar (University of Haifa) and Elinor Carmi (City University) Making surveillance kosher: How the NSO Group legitimizes its surveillance |
| Mira Yaseen (King’s College London) Seeing and not seeing’: Israel’s surveillance of the Palestinians in the big data era |
| Gabriel Pereira (LSE) The rise of Automated Number Plate Recognition: A genealogy of an algorithmic surveillance technology |
| Marie Eneman (University of Gothenburg), Marie Griffiths (University of Salford) and Rachel McLean (Liverpool John Moores University) AI surveillance: Critical insights of Clearview AI stories from Sweden and UK |
| Christoph Lutz (BI Norwegian Business School), Christian Pieter Hoffmann (University of Leipzig) and Giulia Ranzini (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Privacy cynicism and agency constraints in the datafied society |
WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)
| Emotional AI (EAI) in Smart Cities: What it means to live well with EAI? (Diana Miranda, University of Stirling; Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay, Bangor University; Lachlan Urquhart, Edinburgh University) |
WORKSHOP (Room 1.05)
| Meanings and Forms of Solidarity in Digital Rights Work: Workshopping the Resist and Reboot playbook (Siddharth de Souza, Tilburg University) |
11:00 – 11:15
| COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase) |
11:15 – 12:45
PARALLEL SESSIONS E
CONCEPTUALISING DATA JUSTICE AND RESISTANCE (Chair: Lina Dencik, room 1.06)
| Azadeh Akbari (University of Twente) The politics of justice in the “Data Justice” discourse |
| Michael Katell, David Leslie, Cami Rincon (Turing Institute) Pluriversal data justice |
| Georgia van Toorn (University of South Wales Australia) Disability, data justice, and the politics of justice talk |
| Leon Salter (Massey University) The algorithmic big Other: Using Lacanian theory to think about subordination and resistance in platform work |
| Veridiana Alimonti (University of São Paolo) Building knowledge and resistance in the datafied society: Perspectives from South America |
PUBLIC AWARENESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF DATA (Chair: Elinor Carmi, Room 1.08)
| Sara Suárez-Gonzalo, Andrea Rosales, Francisca Morey Cortès, Mireia Fernández- Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Who is algorithmic aware? A quantitative study of the key factors determining the level of algorithmic awareness in Spain and its limits |
| Brendan Lawson (Loughborough University) Navigating a sea of data: How people determine the trustworthiness of numbers on personal messaging platforms. |
| Lisa Reutter (Copenhagen University) Citizen responses to emerging public-private data flows: The case of Statistics Norway |
| Martin Trans (University of Amsterdam) Datafying groceries: Consumers’ willingness to participate in loyalty programs |
| Isabelle Higgins (University of Cambridge) Parental roles in the public domain: The complexities of children’s personal data and concepts of collective ‘consent’ |
DATAFIED MIGRATION (Chair: Maria Kyriakidou, Room 1.09)
| Kuba Jablonowski (University of Exeter) Societies of immigration control: Data doubles, status multiples, and transactional borders of Brexit Britain |
| Kristin Kaltenhauser and Naja Holten Møller (University of Copenhagen) Exploring deviations from the norm: A participatory study design of outliers in asylum decision-making |
| Lucy Pei (University of California) and Marisol Wong-Villacres (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Literal) The datafied coordinated response to Venezuelan migration |
| Margaret Cheesman (King’s College London) Faith in FinTech? Blockchain wallets, humanitarian aid, and refugee women’s religious narratives |
| Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo) Biometric markets and digital identity: A critical discourse analysis |
DATA NARRATIVES AND VISUALISATIONS (chair: Pieter Verdegem, Room 1.05)
| Andrew Hamann and Roderic Crooks (University of California) Going nowhere: Liberal ideology in data visualizations for equitable transit development |
| Seolha Lee, Rachel Warren, Melissa Mazmanian (University of California) Interrupting governments’ data performance: Critical reading of government data narratives as a strategy to empower communities in data-driven cities |
| Miranda McKee (York University and Toronto Metropolitan University) Counter-mapping COVID-19: Visual strategies and alternative imaginaries |
| Monika Fratczak (University of Sheffield) Mobilisation evoked by data visualizations in different national contexts |
WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)
| Designing Participatory Data Governance (Scenario game) (Tim Davies, Maria Luciano, Jeni Tennison, Connected By Data) |
12:45 – 13:45
| LUNCH (Social Staircase) |
13:45 – 15:15
| KEYNOTE PLENARY 2: ALTERNATIVE COLLECTIVES (Room 0.06)) Catherine D’Ignazio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Donna Cormack (University of Otago), Carolina Botero Cabrera (Karisma). Chair: Tracey Lauriault. |
15:15 – 15:30
| COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase) |
15:30 – 17:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS F
UNCERTAIN DATA ENVIRONMENTS (Chair: Fieke Jansen, Room 1.06)
| Dmitry Muravyov (Delft University of Technology) Datafied doubt as an epistemic virtue: Learning from activists’ and practitioners’ perspectives |
| Jedrzej Niklas (Polish Academy of Science) Datafied forests and public governance of uncertainty |
| Becky Kazansky (University of Amsterdam) Refusing risk in a burning world |
| Rebecca Noone (University College London) Out of thin air: Digital redlining and Google’s Air Quality Explorer |
CONSTRUCTING DATA COLLECTIVES AND IDENTITY (Chair: Emiliano Treré, Room 1.08)
| Jannie Hartley (Roskilde University) Manufacturing collectives: The case of Datadriven Personalised News and collectives constructed as aggregated datapoints |
| Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) ‘Prove you are human’: Interfaces for identity verification and collective resistance |
| Sheng Zou (Hong Kong Baptist University) ‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: On algocratic attunement, or how to live with Automated social sorting in China in the COVID era |
| Sananda Sahoo (University of Western Ontario) Constructing the authentic citizen: The Indian government’s embrace of facial recognition technology in elections |
| Isadora Dullaert (University of Edinburgh) What’s in your wallet? Linking self-sovereign identity technologies to data justice policies |
DATA SUBJECTIVITIES (Chair: Hannah Hamad, Room 1.09)
| Daniel Arauz Nuñez (University of Western Ontario) Sensing suicide – Against digital phenotyping and the datafication of the suicidal subject |
| Grace Tillyard (Goldsmiths, University of London) Context is key: The impact of data-intensive and algorithmic technologies on abortion seekers in the United States |
| Bjorn Beijnon (University of Amsterdam) Datafication or (self-)exploitation? Governmentality in the age of platformisation |
| Daniele Metilli (University College London), Beatrice Melis (University of Pisa), Marta Fioravanti (oio.studio) and Chiara Paolini (KU Leuven) Can you model my gender? How the Wikidata community developed a shared ontology of gender |
| Yuening Li and Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University) Going to the bank, on my phone: Investigating the collective experiences, social meanings, and ramifications of datafied money services |
WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)
| Evaluating Participatory and Inclusive Data Collection Guidelines (Eliza McCullough and Jiyoo Chang, Partnership on AI) |
17:00
| CONFERENCE END |