Srravya
@srravya.bsky.social
socio-technical research and PhD underway @designinf.bsky.social
researching data work, responsible AI
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
researching data work, responsible AI
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
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NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.
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Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.
Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
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Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
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📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Circuits | Session 1, from mining to chip manufacture in the Congo and Taiwan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining...
Join us for our first session in the Global Circuits speaker series where we draw connections and forge solidarity from the Congo to Taiwan. We are lucky to host Maurice Carney, Executive Director at ...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program
oh yes, encountered this frustrating chatbait a few weeks ago when I tried using chatGPT for some Latex queries. It would annoyingly keep asking follow up questions and offers to create templates and what not, like it is designed to never let the conversation end.
Chatbots are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to keep people talking. For the most part, it’s annoying; at the extremes, it can be harmful. And it might just be getting started. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
oh yes, encountered this frustrating chatbait a few weeks ago when I tried using chatGPT for some Latex queries. It would annoyingly keep asking follow up questions and offers to create templates and what not, like it is designed to never let the conversation end.
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✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...
September 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...
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My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance.
"We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..."
Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378
"We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..."
Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378
September 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance.
"We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..."
Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378
"We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..."
Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378
Ugh, frustrated to see warnings like these on Wikipedia. Encountered this on a page about switchboard operators, that I had opened with some excitement and curiosity. The irony of this warning under a section on Reality and Fiction is not lost on me.
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ugh, frustrated to see warnings like these on Wikipedia. Encountered this on a page about switchboard operators, that I had opened with some excitement and curiosity. The irony of this warning under a section on Reality and Fiction is not lost on me.
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Another good job out there:
"The TUC is looking for a Policy & Campaigns Officer to contribute to our work ensuring workers benefit from and shape new technologies and artificial intelligence – in the workplace and in public policy"
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
"The TUC is looking for a Policy & Campaigns Officer to contribute to our work ensuring workers benefit from and shape new technologies and artificial intelligence – in the workplace and in public policy"
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Policy and Campaigns Officer - London
Policy & Campaigns Officer, Technology and Artificial Intelligence
Grade 6 £44,228 per annum (pro rata), plus London Weighting £6,154 per annum (pro rata)
Temporary – 18 months, Four days (28 hours)...
tuc.current-vacancies.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Another good job out there:
"The TUC is looking for a Policy & Campaigns Officer to contribute to our work ensuring workers benefit from and shape new technologies and artificial intelligence – in the workplace and in public policy"
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
"The TUC is looking for a Policy & Campaigns Officer to contribute to our work ensuring workers benefit from and shape new technologies and artificial intelligence – in the workplace and in public policy"
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
September 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!
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August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Support our mission: we’re recruiting a new trustee to help guide our work advancing public education on sociology and related disciplines.
In this volunteer role (approx 1hr/wk), you’ll share your skills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing.
Find out more: buff.ly/yvCO6Vt
In this volunteer role (approx 1hr/wk), you’ll share your skills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing.
Find out more: buff.ly/yvCO6Vt
August 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Support our mission: we’re recruiting a new trustee to help guide our work advancing public education on sociology and related disciplines.
In this volunteer role (approx 1hr/wk), you’ll share your skills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing.
Find out more: buff.ly/yvCO6Vt
In this volunteer role (approx 1hr/wk), you’ll share your skills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing.
Find out more: buff.ly/yvCO6Vt
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We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.
Senior Manager - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
August 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.
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Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
August 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
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How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?"
It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!
It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!
What makes a good feminist – theoretically, or otherwise?
Laura J. Bower’s wry short story looks at Kate, a gender-studies lecturer whose lived experience sometimes feels markedly (or horribly) at odds with what she teaches. Out now in the June magazine.
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Laura J. Bower’s wry short story looks at Kate, a gender-studies lecturer whose lived experience sometimes feels markedly (or horribly) at odds with what she teaches. Out now in the June magazine.
buff.ly/Bm7xP29
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?"
It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!
It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!
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Call it clickwork, crowdwork, data labor, or ghost work - they are all poorly-paid, precarious and traumatic jobs that make AI possible. Read an excerpt from The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on @restofworld.org .
restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor
restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor
The hidden labor that makes AI work
Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.
restofworld.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Call it clickwork, crowdwork, data labor, or ghost work - they are all poorly-paid, precarious and traumatic jobs that make AI possible. Read an excerpt from The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on @restofworld.org .
restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor
restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor
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Important development from the alliance above: content moderators around the world with support from @uniglobalunion.org released a new report and are calling on tech companies “to adopt mental health protections throughout their supply chains”
uniglobalunion.org/news/tech-pr...
uniglobalunion.org/news/tech-pr...
Global content moderators alliance demands Mental Health Protocols in Tech supply chain
The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators is calling on tech companies – including TikTok, Meta, Alphabet and OpenAI – to adopt mental health protections throughout their supply chains for...
uniglobalunion.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Important development from the alliance above: content moderators around the world with support from @uniglobalunion.org released a new report and are calling on tech companies “to adopt mental health protections throughout their supply chains”
uniglobalunion.org/news/tech-pr...
uniglobalunion.org/news/tech-pr...
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🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Artificial Intelligence and the ethics of navigating ambiguity - SJ Bennett, 2025
This paper examines ambiguity within AI practice, arguing for an ethics of AI which stays with fundamental ambiguities and accounts for their complex socio-mate...
journals.sagepub.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“In Australia, Canada, Greece and the US, call center agents say they’ve been repeatedly mistaken for AI. These people, who spend hours talking to strangers, are experiencing surreal conversations, where customers ask them to prove they are not machines.”
Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI
As more workers are asked by strangers if they're bots, surreal conversations are prompting introspection in the industry about what it means to be human.
www.bloomberg.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“In Australia, Canada, Greece and the US, call center agents say they’ve been repeatedly mistaken for AI. These people, who spend hours talking to strangers, are experiencing surreal conversations, where customers ask them to prove they are not machines.”
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🚨 TIME exclusive: Content moderators shield us from the darkest parts of the internet—but suffer PTSD, burnout & trauma.
A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now.
#TechWorkersRising
A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now.
#TechWorkersRising
Exclusive: Global Safety Rules Aim to Protect AI’s Most Traumatized Workers
Outsourced workers review graphic content used to train AI. A global union is now pushing for baseline mental health protections.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🚨 TIME exclusive: Content moderators shield us from the darkest parts of the internet—but suffer PTSD, burnout & trauma.
A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now.
#TechWorkersRising
A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now.
#TechWorkersRising
this is a very interesting and useful compilation on the data work sector, published by @techequity.us! check out: dataworklandscape.org/landscape
June 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
this is a very interesting and useful compilation on the data work sector, published by @techequity.us! check out: dataworklandscape.org/landscape
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🙋♀️ Come work at my department! We are nice and friendly, in the hwart of London, UK!
🌟Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
🌟 full time, permanent!
🌟salary £42,882-£60,907.
Deadline for applications 24th July 2025!
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
🌟Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
🌟 full time, permanent!
🌟salary £42,882-£60,907.
Deadline for applications 24th July 2025!
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
Details | City St George's, University of London
Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🙋♀️ Come work at my department! We are nice and friendly, in the hwart of London, UK!
🌟Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
🌟 full time, permanent!
🌟salary £42,882-£60,907.
Deadline for applications 24th July 2025!
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
🌟Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
🌟 full time, permanent!
🌟salary £42,882-£60,907.
Deadline for applications 24th July 2025!
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
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🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is this Fri, June 13 @ 11am (ET US). Oliver Haimson will join us to discuss "The Political Economy of Trans Technologies: Trans Capitalism, Investment Funding, Mutual Aid, & Anticapitalist Approaches."
For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)
For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)
June 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is this Fri, June 13 @ 11am (ET US). Oliver Haimson will join us to discuss "The Political Economy of Trans Technologies: Trans Capitalism, Investment Funding, Mutual Aid, & Anticapitalist Approaches."
For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)
For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)