Open call to seminar “Digitizing Peoples in Uncertain Times: Interface methods for interventions on populations”
13 and 14 May 2021, University of Bologna/Virtual We invite interested scholars to contribute with empirical and conceptual works at the confluence of studies on data-driven population management, digital sociology and its methods, or STS and interventionist approaches, including ethnographic works. Deadline for abstract submission: March 30th, 2021 300-word abstracts should be submitted to webmaster@processingcitizenship.eu…
Read More >>Guest presentation by Iris Fraikin
On the 25th of November, at our Processing Citizenship team meeting, we had the pleasure of meeting Iris Fraikin from Maastricht University to hear about her research on the social and political implications of standardising refugee health assessments. Iris Fraikin is a lecturer and PhD-researcher at Maastricht Univeristy, at the department of Health, Ethics and…
Read More >>Call for abstract – 8th STS Italia Conference Trieste 17-19 June 2021
Prof. Annalisa Pelizza and PhD candidate Lorenzo Olivieri will be the convenors of a panel on platforms, surveillance and vulnerable populations at the 8th STS Italia Conference. The panel invites presentations discussing the relation between digital platforms and vulnerable subjects: How do online platforms and data infrastructures allow empowering innovations in the communications strategies of…
Read More >>Presentation at STS-MIGTEC circle
On the 21st of October 2020 Wouter Van Rossem presented the paper “Ontology Explorer: A method to analyse data models for identifying and registering border crossers,” co-authored with Prof. Annalisa Pelizza, at STS-MIGTEC circle. STS-MIGTEC is a network of scholars at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and critical migration, security and border…
Read More >>Panel at the University of Wien: “Making Europe through infrastructures of in/security”
Prof. Annalisa Pelizza will give a talk at a panel organized by the University of Wien on November 12th. The panel – “Making Europe through infrastructures of in/security” – will include contributions from Claudia Aradau (King’s College London), Johan Schot (University of Utrecht) and Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna). Annalisa’s talk “Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe.…
Read More >>Online STEPS colloquium
On the 9th of September Wouter Van Rossem gave a presentation at the research meeting of the Department Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente. In the meeting he gave a 30 minute presentation followed by questions and discussion. He presented presented the paper “Ontology Explorer: A method to analyse data models for identifying…
Read More >>Don’t migrants get COVID? New article on Big Data and Society on COVID-19-related fake news about migrants
A newly published paper on Big Data and Society addresses the diffusion of fake news about minorities’ immunity to COVID-19, and argues that techniques used in COVID-19 testing have a major role in producing them.
Read More >>Processing Citizenship at EASST+4S conference
From 18 until 21 August, Processing Citizenship will contribute to the EASST+4S conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds”. The conference is jointly organized every two years by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social…
Read More >>Processing Citizenship team grows larger
On Wednesday July 1 we had our last team meeting before the summer break. The meeting gave us the possibility to sum up the work done in these intense and excting months in Bologna and to plan our future activities. Moreover, it was an opportuntiy to welcome the two post-docs who recently joined Processing Citizenship:…
Read More >>The dilemma of making migrants visible to COVID-19 counting
The COVID-19 pandemic requires reconsidering the relationship between data and invisible populations as a form of de facto civil inclusion. While most forms of data management of populations are problematic, under which conditions would counting be just? Opinion piece by Processing Citizenship and DATACTIVE members, originally published on Open Democracy.
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