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Data centre fieldwork week begins! One week with experiences of data infrastructural labour at a Russian data centre, so excited. #Yandex

Come to Helsinki for our conference on Infrastructures and Inequalities, deadline approaching (1 June) helsinki.fi/en/conferences…

Data and debris, the transient materiality of data centers: session on Data Centers and Disposability #4S2019 @JCPlantin Julia Velkova #DataCenter tinyurl.com/y2u4n8ew

🚨Out Now 🚨Julia Velkova and akaka 1 explore the ways in which users resist algorithmic power through developing tactics of alternative use that aim to 'repair' or correct biased results #algorithms #racism #agency #resistance tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

our article on user agency and algorithms through media practices and repairs is now open access, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In corona-times when all is about numbers, our piece with Göran Bolin on metric cultures on social media discusses methods and meanings of numbers journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

On numbers, user disorientations and the value of metrics on social media, our piece is out now on paper and in a numbered issue, with Göran Bolin :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Happy to have been part of this important forthcoming mega special issue on the Politics of Infrastructure in the journal Cultural Studies!

Time to talk about cloud ruination and abandoned data centers - Patrick Brodie and my article on the topic is now out at ICS, and part of AOIR's fabulous yearly special issue!

what would you do if you lost everything digital? Wonderful article on standby cultures and data loss in the cloud by Alexander R. E. Taylor | aretaylor.bsky.social ephemerajournal.org/contribution/s…

So excited to see the amazing special issue on Infrastructure edited by James N Gilmore and Blake Hallinan in Cultural studies! tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/cur… And with such a cool cover!

Congratulations 🥳! Our Nikolaus Poechhacker (Uni Graz/University of Graz), Nina Klimburg-Witjes (Universität Wien) and co-editors & Geoffrey C. Bowker published Sensing In/Security with Mattering Press. The book examines how sensing devices gain political and epistemic relevance in various forms of in/security. (1/3)

In case you missed it - Sensing in/security hot off the Mattering Press 🤩🥳

Finally out, after some years in the making! Vicki Mayer and I write about the embodied experiences, automation anxieties and the biopolitics of labor in data centers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our special issue on Data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media is out! With great contributions on bunkering and ruining, performing uptime and masculinity, critical art, economic, colonial and elemental futures @JCPlantin journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/25/2

Currently open: a 4-year fully funded PhD position in Technology and Social Change, Linköping U, Sweden to explore with me the politics and experiences of dismantling media infrastructure. Deadline 2 May! Please share! liu.se/en/work-at-liu…

Excellently written piece on human-machine relations by .

Excellent summary of facts by the Swedish gov in response to all the recent fuzz about Sweden and criminality: government.se/articles/2017/…

Oh no, my finely typeset in Latex PhD thesis on foss CG will be remade in word so that the uni can print it! bye beautiful Latin Modern :(

Ah, looking forward to meeting Manu Järvinen in Helsinki soon, and catch up on Blender, CG and share some Blender-dissertation books! Got nostalgic about Cosmos Laundromat ...