katie mackinnon
@ktmac.bsky.social
postdoc @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
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katie mackinnon
@ktmac.bsky.social
· Oct 4
💥New #CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society—a new #OpenAccess initiative from CambridgeUP, guest eds. Katie MacKinnon, Louis Ravn, Eun Seo Jo, Caroline Bassett and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social ! ℹ️ shorturl.at/hAI1l
Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton.
What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎
What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎
Katie Mackinnon | Library Innovation Lab
InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton.
What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎
What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎
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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
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It's 10.40pm here in Copenhagen and we've just entered the third session of this panel series on data loss at #4S2025! Here's are some ongoing reflections on the amazing papers in the series! #STS #DataLoss
September 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This Sat. Sept 6 we have three very exciting #dataloss panels at #4S2025! While some of our team won't be there in person, we are all thrilled to host these critical discussions examining loss and erasure as constitutive forces in digital systems. Join us tomorrow through the links below!
September 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!
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My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...
Ghosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures - Will Orr, 2025
Absences are inescapable in data. Data collection always focuses on some elements while occluding others. Yet, how absences are considered and recorded within d...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...
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Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
link.springer.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣
netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/
🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15
🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM
20-23 APR 2026
#webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities
netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/
🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15
🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM
20-23 APR 2026
#webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣
netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/
🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15
🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM
20-23 APR 2026
#webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities
netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/
🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15
🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM
20-23 APR 2026
#webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities
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Deadline for proposals July 27
July 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Deadline for proposals July 27
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Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen
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Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen
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July 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨
June 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨
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✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.
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@ktmac.bsky.social presenting her amazing
@erc.europa.eu
research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025
@erc.europa.eu
research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025
June 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
@ktmac.bsky.social presenting her amazing
@erc.europa.eu
research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025
@erc.europa.eu
research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025
headed to #RESAW25 this week ✈️
Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖
Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
headed to #RESAW25 this week ✈️
Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖
Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖
This afternoon! 🌟✨
Looking so much forward to listening to Jessica Lapp’s @erc.europa.eu Data Loss lecture later today @ucph.bsky.social - all are welcome but seats are limited ! Brilliant organising by @ktmac.bsky.social artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/dal...
May 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This afternoon! 🌟✨
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Event announcement: Join us for a #workshop on June 2nd, 10am - 3pm!
Together with team #DALOSS (KU), we are hosting a workshop on tools, practices, and ethnographic experiences related to destruction of data
Limited spaces!
For sign-up, detailed agenda & questions please write to sarfe@dtu.dk
Together with team #DALOSS (KU), we are hosting a workshop on tools, practices, and ethnographic experiences related to destruction of data
Limited spaces!
For sign-up, detailed agenda & questions please write to sarfe@dtu.dk
May 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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My colleagues and I are doing a bunch of cool events on making sense of AI from a critical social science perspective over the next two months. First up, our event on visual AI literacies on May 30th: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/10/s...
Seeing AI – a series of research and public engagement events - Digital Society Research Cluster
Understanding the impact of AI on social, cultural and political life has been at the heart of our new initiative – the AI Literacy working group. “AI literacy” (or even […]
digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My colleagues and I are doing a bunch of cool events on making sense of AI from a critical social science perspective over the next two months. First up, our event on visual AI literacies on May 30th: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/10/s...
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REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society.
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society.
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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@alondra.bsky.social exercising exit and voice by resigning from two prestigious positions whose role is being distorted and rendered useless, if not worse:
May 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@alondra.bsky.social exercising exit and voice by resigning from two prestigious positions whose role is being distorted and rendered useless, if not worse:
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Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)
May 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)
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1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.
May 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.
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✨The first two papers in our Topical Collection on the 'Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation' are out in Digital Society!
The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo.
link.springer.com/collections/...
The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo.
link.springer.com/collections/...
Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation
Is the data good enough for training purposes? Does the model perform accurately enough? Is the error rate low enough? Such questions of ‘good enough’ are at ...
link.springer.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
✨The first two papers in our Topical Collection on the 'Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation' are out in Digital Society!
The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo.
link.springer.com/collections/...
The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo.
link.springer.com/collections/...
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[REMINDER] 2-days left to apply for Data Stories CFP on 'Data Voids' this November in Lisbon, Portugal. See below for details 👇
Data Voids Call for Papers - Special Session at 4th Digital Geographies Conference, 3-4 November 2025, Lisbon The deadline for abstracts is April 30. Please read the Data Stories project blog for further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=670
April 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
[REMINDER] 2-days left to apply for Data Stories CFP on 'Data Voids' this November in Lisbon, Portugal. See below for details 👇
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Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history - Dominique Carlon, Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko, 2025
This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role i...
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April 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...