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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
This themed issue examines the connections—past, present, and future—between artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and archives. Our exploration is driven by three interrelated trends, which together indicate what we describe as an “archival turn” in Al research (Taurino & Smith, 2022) across the disciplinary spectrum from computational sciences to the social sciences and humanities. We invite contributions focusing on, but not restricted to, the following themes: « Politics of open-source data archives (non-profits, community, activist, etc.) « Data collection practices, networks, platforms, infrastructures and systems * Archival aesthetics of/in Al « Histories of Al and srchives « STS perspectives on archives and Al « Critical Data, Dataset and Al Studies of archival practices and infrastructures « Data formats, quality, scope, scale « Automated archival methodologies « Al archives and Digital Humanities « Artistic engagements with Al and archives
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emae.bsky.social
Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ktmac.bsky.social
📢Call for Abstracts: "Deep Time and the Politics of Storage" (Open Panel) at EASST in Krakow, Sept 8-11 2026.

Calling all storage-heads! Let's talk deep time!🦕

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P245: Deep Time and the Politics of Storage
This panel foregrounds the politics of storage as a key site through which the material, temporal, and environmental dimensions of data are negotiated. It
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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susannapaasonen.bsky.social
Postocs working on cultural heritage and digital culture, ahoy!
Two Fixed-Term Postdoctoral Researcher Positions
The University of Turku invites applications for two fixed-term postdoctoral researcher positions for a period of two years within the thematic profiling area Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age (Dig...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
ktmac.bsky.social
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? 💎
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?
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October 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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melissaterras.bsky.social
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
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jfwinters.bsky.social
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
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
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
ktmac.bsky.social katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · Sep 5
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 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
ktmac.bsky.social
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!
Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling. Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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willo.bsky.social
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...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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amoorelouise.bsky.social
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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July 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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netpreserve.bsky.social
📣 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
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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vinzenzhediger.bsky.social
Deadline for proposals July 27
July 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
👀

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen

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July 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
ktmac.bsky.social
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
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
✨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.
Event poster: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory, June 19, 14-15.30. University of Copenhagen.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
@ktmac.bsky.social presenting her amazing
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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
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 🤖
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ktmac.bsky.social
This afternoon! 🌟✨
nannathylstrup.bsky.social Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · May 23
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
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echodtu.bsky.social
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
May 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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danjokaz00ie.bsky.social
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 […]
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May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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silvertje.bsky.social
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...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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louiseseamster.bsky.social
@alondra.bsky.social exercising exit and voice by resigning from two prestigious positions whose role is being distorted and rendered useless, if not worse:
"This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it. In her Nobel lecture in 1993, the writer Toni Morrison observed: "Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek—it must be rejected, altered and exposed." The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice. To signal that certain boundary lines have been crossed. To insist that advisory roles must expand knowledge and be more than appendages to predetermined decisions."
May 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
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.
sebgiessmann.bsky.social Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Mar 27
🕸️ We are doing this conference at Media of Cooperation this June ... It is called THE DATAFIED WEB, and it will be a blast! Registration for #RESAW25 is now open. Please spread widely, and do not forget to check out the marvelous programme at datafiedweb.net! #www #history #archive #data #AI
Registration open for RESAW 2025 THE DATAFIED WEB at Siegen University
May 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM