CfP ✨Consider submitting to this fantastic panel on Deep Learning and Culture at the STS NL Conference ✨
Organised by @louravn.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke (@d-eepculture.bsky.social)
✨Welcoming Fabian Offer for the next #CriticalAI Seminar (online) on his upcoming book "Vector Media" on January 13, 2026 5:30-7 PM (Amsterdam)✨
The talk presents a new history and theory of the vector space in contemporary #AI systems
🗓️ Register here: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/2-cri...
January 13, 17:30-19:00 (CEST): Vector Media This talk presents a new history and theory of the vector space in contemporary artificial intelligence systems. I will argue that the inevitable bias of s...
❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th.
You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
Dieuwertje Luitse
Dieuwertje Luitse
We are excited to report that we have started developing our first *Little Tools of Difference*.
While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite?
More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!
<p>Would you like to teach cutting-edge theories, computational methods, and questions in Critical Data & AI? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!</p>
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
“Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML
Publication alert!
New article out in Big Data & Society on digital phantoms and synthetic data in medical physics. We explore the making of digital reference objects for human bodies and how they are used in construction of ground truths, as known, & even perfect truths.
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Digital phantoms are virtual representations of the human body used in medical research to test equipment, train medical professionals and develop or validate a...
How do researchers, journalists & artists work with the Wayback Machine?
At a recent gathering in Amsterdam, we explored how web archives support digital investigations, platform research & media art — and how we can build better tools & collaborations.
👉 www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...
Guest post by Jonathan W. Y. Gray. How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do th...
🇬🇧 New RESET call for papers on "Towards New Social and Historical Studies of Artificial Intelligence"!
A special issue edited by @vgoujon.bsky.social, Mathilde Fichen and @alexcampolo.bsky.social
One-page abstracts are due by January 16, 2026: journals.openedition.org/reset/6250
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
“Making machine learning good enough – studying the political endeavour of finding ‘right’ metrics and thresholds” by @annaschjoett.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#machinelearning #goodenough #MLevaluation
Charlotte Högberg
Big Data & Society
I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
Abstracts are due by January 16, 2026. Today public opinion on generative artificial intelligence is deeply divided. Techno-optimistic promises clash with ethical critiques, against the backdrop of...
🚨 Call for presentations: “Deep Learning and Culture” panel
🔍 We're organizing a panel on “Deep Learning and Culture” at the STS NL Conference (Uni of Twente, 17-19 April 2026).
📮 Please submit your abstract here: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n.... Deadline: 07 Jan. 2026.
See you there :)
