[Apologies for cross-posting!] Hi everyone, I’m organising 2 'Innovative Methods seminars' as part of the University of Glasgow’s College of Social Science Digital Society & Economy Interdisciplinary Research Theme - I'd love to invite you all! We've got 2 ace speakers and the sessions are online - more details on both below, hope to see some of you there! About the Innovative Methods Seminar series: Our workshops run for 50 min. each with time for presentation and Q&A. We will have one speaker per each event and all events will be hosted online, via Zoom. Every speaker will share their digital methodology/methods and the project in which the methodology was applied or developed, with a particular focus on the innovative aspects of that methodology, including benefits, challenges, ethical dimensions, challenges, etc. The audience for these workshops are members of the Digital Society and Economy Interdisciplinary Research Theme, including peer scholars and doctoral students. -- Innovative Methods seminar: Data-driven Investigations – The Algorithmic Audit Friday November 3rd (online): 12pm-1pm (UK time) Book here: https://events.bookitbee.com/university-of-glasgow-107/innovative-methods-se... Data-driven Investigations – The Algorithmic Audit How do we systematically investigate technology, and where do we even start? Leon Yin, data journalist at Bloomberg, will share how to approach data-driven investigations by walking through several case studies along with the tools and decisions that his team made to hold technology and its creators accountable. About our speaker: Leon Yin is an award-winning data journalist at Bloomberg. He builds datasets and develops methods to investigate the social impacts of technology. He writes Inspect Element<https://inspectelement.org/>: a practitioner's guide to auditing algorithms and hypothesis-driven investigations. His work has been cited<https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/29/congressman-says-the-markup-investigation-proves-google-has-created-a-walled-garden> by legislators<https://themarkup.org/amazons-advantage/2022/03/09/house-antitrust-committee-accuses-amazon-of-lying-to-congress-asks-doj-to-investigate>, the academy<https://www.pbs.org/video/search-engine-breakdown-79wcbc/>, and popular media<https://youtu.be/jXf04bhcjbg?t=600>. In 2022, he received a Gerald Loeb Award for the series "Amazon's Advantage". Leon got his start in news at The Markup<https://themarkup.org/people/leon-yin>, and his start in research writing Fortran scripts at NASA<https://www.giss.nasa.gov/>. -- Innovative Methods seminar: Participatory Investigations – Workers as Futurist Friday November 3rd (online): 12pm-1pm (UK time) Book here: https://events.bookitbee.com/university-of-glasgow-107/innovative-methods-se... Participatory Investigations - Workers as Futurist The Worker as Futurist project supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write and publish short, speculative fiction stories about “the world after Amazon.” That corporation not only dominates online retail and web services, it actively seeks to “disrupt” sectors from health care to groceries, from film and television to logistics and robotics, animated by its executives' science fiction-fuelled dreams. But workers pay the price, and have no say in the future they are made to build, which for most will be a dystopia. Around the world, workers are rising up against Amazon and similar corporations, but what kind of future do workers want? About our speaker: Max Haiven<http://maxhaiven.com/> is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Palm Oil<http://maxhaiven.com/palmoil/>: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism<http://maxhaiven.com/books>: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020) and Art after Money, Money after Art<http://maxhaiven.com/books>: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018). Haiven is editor of VAGABONDS<http://vagabonds.xyz/>, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University<http://lakeheadu.ca/>, where he directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab<http://reimaginingvalue.ca/> (RiVAL). -- Gemma Milne Interdisciplinary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Science & Technology writer & broadcaster Co-host of the Radical Science<https://www.sciencedisrupt.com/> podcast Twitter: @gemmamilne<https://twitter.com/gemmamilne> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.