Excellent panel on virtual intimacy, automation and cyborg workers by Natasha Lushetich, Sarah Earnshaw, and Anne Küper👍Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies

The EU's #AIAct introduces a ban on biometric surveillance (except for migrants). Meanwhile, in France . . . biometricupdate.com/202306/french-…

Just a normal day in Aarhus: while going for a little walk by the harbour before heading to the airport, I bump into a Danish royal (princess Mary) who is welcoming a Norwegian royal. The closest I ever got to a royal 😅

Finally out: our article on the relationship between perceptions of risk and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccine passports: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/05…

"The Relational Turn" Heute spreche ich an der Universität Bremen über das "Relational Turn" und das neue Buch "Person, Thing, Robot." The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social #robotrights #AIethics

Just out: new article by @soee_sille & @jenserikmai: “The Ethics of Sharing: Privacy, Data, and Common Goods” buff.ly/3XZ54Yg

I’ve written so many long and short things about Frantz Fanon over the years. On his birthday today, I’ll share one of first public essays I wrote on Fanon and his misunderstood ideas on violence inspired by the powerful documentary by Göran Hugo Olsson theguardian.com/world/2014/jul…

Solidarity was a much spoken of concept during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what is solidarity? And how can we support and sustain acts of solidarity in and beyond moments of crises? Check out our latest blog and paper from the SolPan_SolPan+ project: digigov.univie.ac.at/projects/solid…

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Oh hell yeeeeah!!! Global Digital Cultures has swiftly become my other favourite conference aside from AoIR. Great theme and what a well-constructed CFP! 🙌💯🤩 globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl/content/news/2…

'Surveillance', an entry for the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology, now live! We hope this might provide a useful starting point for anthropologists and surveillance scholars as a reflection on the field so far EASA Society for Cultural Anthropology Surveillance & Society anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/surveill…

My latest film "Borderscapes" is screening at Spotlight on Academics film festival in Thunder Bay and online on February 11th. The film addresses the impact of border technologies and policies on the everyday lives of migrants #migration #displacement #borders #VisualAnthropology

Hear, hear!

Delighted to have a co-authored chapter in this fab new open access collection on the rise of #facialrecognition. Well worth a copy being in every university library, this technology has profound implications for individuals, spaces & polities. cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

I collect ads like rich people collect cars. The 10 most iconic ads I've found:

Just out: “It Could Have Been Us”: media frames and the coverage of Ukrainian, Afghan and Syrian refugee crises, available open access at: link.springer.com/article/10.100…. The article compares the UK media coverage of different refugee crises via media frame analysis approach.

Upcoming event on Digital Futures: tickettailor.com/events/centref…

Recording from our "Imaginative Digital Futures" symposium, hosted by the Centre for Attention Studies at King's College London, is now vailable on: youtu.be/nI0ADNfsQ_s?si… In my talk, I discussed the extractivist aspects of biometrics and raised related ethical issues.

Just arrived: my first publication in Italian ☺️ in volume "Incorporazioni: Prospettive storiche e teoriche", edited by Angela Michelis and Francesco Pisano. edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9…