
Dr Margie Cheesman
@margchee
Lecturer in digital economy @kingsdh. Anthropologist. Researches tech and aid. Moved to margchee.bsky.social
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🥁🥁 it’s here, and I’m amazed! 🥁🥁 My first book, Unfair ID, launches today with SAGE Publications. It is dedicated to all sufferers of harmful outcomes of digital identity, and imagines routes to overcoming #digitalID unfairness. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/unfa… #UnfairID #datajustice




In collaboration with Just Futures Law EPIC published a break down of how data brokers harm immigrants & circumvent due process. This is part of EPIC's ongoing series of resources about the @CFPB's Fair Credit Reporting Act rulemaking process & data brokers epic.org/documents/how-…



It happened during a flight from Amsterdam, it happened that Azadeh Akbari (Uni Twente) texted me “our book is out!” It was one of the most beautiful moments I have ever lived. Thanks all amazing contributors that made Critical ICT4D possible. New book 👉👉 taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/… 📚💛



Tracing the infrastructure of AI to mines, chip factories, data centers, and e-waste dumps, our video of the week unveils the environmental harms of the supply chain capitalism data centers. Feat. Ana Valdivia at Oxford Internet Institute buff.ly/4fXKlw5



🎙️ A bumper episode in the Under Surveillance podcast from ANSUR (The Anthropology of Surveillance Network) The 2024 World Anthropological Union (World Anthropological Union (WAU)) Webinar discusses Anthropology and Surveillance 🕵️🔎📷📹 🎧 Listen here ⤵️ buff.ly/3OYdKdC


Please join me, Yussuf Bashir (Haki na Sheria), Laura Bingham (Temple U. Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology), & Nora Naji this Wed, 15th, 2pm GMT as we discuss digital ID, humanitarian tech, & the identification challenges facing migrants/refugees shorturl.at/yYtIh


What's development aid got to do with geopolitics? Quite a lot, as our Research Associate Jack Taggart explains. The end of USAID has captured headlines, read about the long decline of development aid here: secondcoldwarobservatory.com/dispatch-2025-2


Silicon Valley's turn towards 'technofascism' "isn't a blip or an anomaly. It’s a crescendo of forces central to the tech industry, and the current wave of rightwing tech titans are building on Silicon Valley’s foundations" not disrupting them Becca Lewis theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

Looking forward to hosting Marie Kolling (DIIS Denmark) at Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] 26 Mar 6:30pm for her talk on illicit digital economies, based on ethnographic research. 'In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil' Find out more: tickettailor.com/events/digital…



Proud to announce the launch of our report on the challenges that refugees/migrants in Kenya face accessing state-issued identification, generously funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and co-produced w/ Haki na Sheria w/ support from Caribou Digital cariboudigital.net/publication/in…