For those in London, below is a list of upcoming events in our public seminar series on “critical inquiry with and about the digital” at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. An overview can also be found at the following links: https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/events-list/ http://kingsdh.eventbrite.com Please do forward these to friends, colleagues, students and anyone else you think might be interested. Jonathan *** "#DeleteFacebook and Facebook’s Bonds" Tero Karppi (University of Toronto) When? Thu 7th February 2019, 4-5.30pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 BH(NE)0.01 Register: https://delete-facebook.eventbrite.co.uk "Broken Data" Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) When? Wed 13th February 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? KINGS BLDG K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Register: https://broken-data.eventbrite.co.uk "Data Collaboratives: The Emergence of Public-Private Partnerships around Data for Social Good" Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab, NYU) When? Tue 26th February 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? KINGS BLDG K-1.14 Register: http://data-collaboratives.eventbrite.co.uk "The Platform Society" Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam) When? Wed 6th March 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? KINGS BLDG K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Register: https://platform-society.eventbrite.co.uk "Datafied, Data-Driven, Data-Critical: Data Journalism Within Broader Processes of Datafication" Wiebke Loosen (Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung) When? Thu 14th March 2019, 6-7pm Where? STRAND BLDG S-2.18 Register: https://data-journalism-datafication.eventbrite.co.uk "Digital ANT: The Agency of Replications" Dominique Boullier (Sciences Po + Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) When? Wed 27th March 2019, 3.30pm to 5pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 BH(S)1.01 Register: https://digital-ant.eventbrite.co.uk "The Spotify Teardown" Patrick Vonderau (Martin Luther University Halle) When? Wed 10th April 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 BH(S)1.01 Register: https://spotify-teardown.eventbrite.co.uk "Neurons Spike Back. The Invention of the Inductive Machine and the Artificial Intelligence Controversy" Dominique Cardon (Sciences Po) When? Wed 24th April 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm Where? KINGS BDLG SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE Register: https://neurons-spike-back.eventbrite.co.uk "Taking stock: Researching generic images across representation, circulation and recontextualization" Giorgia Aiello (University of Leeds) When? Wed 1st May 2019, 4pm to 6pm Where? KINGS BLDG K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Register: https://generic-images.eventbrite.co.uk Talk: "Hacking the Museum? Space and Power at Collections Makerspaces in London Cultural Institutions" Kat Braybrooke (University of Sussex) When? Wed 8th May 2019, 4.30pm to 6pm Where? STRAND BLDG S-2.18 Register: https://hacking-the-museum.eventbrite.co.uk Talk: “How Language Became Data: Speech Recognition and Computational Knowledge” Xiaochang Li (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) When? Wed 22nd May 2019, 4.30pm to 6pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 BH(S)4.04 Register: https://how-language-became-data.eventbrite.co.uk -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg<http://twitter.com/jwyg> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Recent publications and projects: * Gray, J. & Bounegru, L. (eds.) (forthcoming) The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Preview of several chapters: http://bit.ly/ddjbook-aup-toc-preview * Gray, J., Gerlitz, C., & Bounegru, L. (2018) Data Infrastructure Literacy. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718786316 * Gray, J. (2018). Three Aspects of Data Worlds. Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. http://krisis.eu/three-aspects-of-data-worlds/ * Bounegru, L., Gray, J., Venturini, T., & Mauri, M. (2018). A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. Amsterdam: Public Data Lab. http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/ * Venturini, T., Bounegru, L., Gray, J., & Rogers, R. (2018). A reality check(list) for digital methods. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818769236 * More available at: http://jonathangray.org/publications/