The exhibition Reimagining Digital ID with artwork by Karen refugees is now open @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Through drawings & poems Karen refugees express their experiences with biometric systems and imagine alternative futures www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

📣 Registration is open for our event Reimagining Digital ID @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ findings from our www.redid.net project and talks by colleagues working on implications of Digital ID in Global South, migrant & refugee contexts explore.gold/digital-id All welcome! ⬇️

Great to see ✨3 ✨ @mediacomgold.bsky.social books at the @politybooks.bsky.social stand at #aoir2025 ‘Democratic Delusions’ by Natalie Fenton, @kat-hig.bsky.social’ ‘Believability’ and my own ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’

How wonderful to be back at Rio for #aoir2025 - giving paper 2 this morning on the infrastructural violence of digital ID room 8g @ 9am

The whole series looks amazing - delighted to be in such great company! All talks are online and open to all, but you must register: www.eventbrite.com/cc/towards-a...

My new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' is now available in the US and globally with @politybooks.bsky.social The book charts how digital and AI interventions in humanitarian settings harm some of the world's most marginalized people www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

looking forward to this - especially keen to connect with colleagues, friends and local academics! If you're in BKK I'd love to hear from you!

The book charts how digital humanitarianism harms some of the world’s most at-risk people. From chatbots for refugees to algorithmic decision-making for deciding aid eligibility, AI practices underpin aid operations and revitalise the colonial genealogies of humanitarianism & technology itself 2/6

My new book ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’ is published in the UK / EU this month @politybooks.bsky.social and in the US in a few weeks. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @mediacomgold.bsky.social 🧵1/6

Here, the Irawaddy delta still flooded from Typhoon Yagi - which had made landfall a few weeks earlier, in September 2024. Then over 3K miles further north west, the view over the river Amu Darya along the border of Uzbekhistan and Turkmenistan. 2/

A few weeks ago I returned from research fieldwork in Thailand. Morning flight, sunny skies throughout the journey. Mesmerised by the view from the airplane window - struck by beauty and fragility in equal measure. 🧵