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Keynotes

Ruha Benjamin

Princeton University

Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022), and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) among other publication. 

Ruha is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, and in 2024 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship.

Discussants:

Elena Popa

Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Elena Popa is Assistant Professor at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and PI of the project “Causality and Social Determinants of Health and Illness”. She works on causality and causal reasoning and values in science, with special emphasis on cultural and social issues in medicine, including conceptualizing health effects of oppression and inequality. Her work has been published in journals such as Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: Part C, and Topoi.

Jorge Nuñez Vega

University of Amsterdam  

Jorge is a multimodal and multispecies anthropologist. He writes and makes films at the intersections of political, economic, environmental, and media anthropology. His geographical areas of specialization are Latin America and Southern Europe. At the University of Amsterdam, he is an Assistant Professor and a member of the AISSR Moving Matters research group. He is also a co-founder of Kaleidos – a center for interdisciplinary ethnography at the University of Cuenca in Ecuador. At Kaleidos, he co-directs two multimodal platforms: EthnoData and Prison Observatory 593. 

He is currently working on a documentary about a family of llamas living in a space station located at the foothills of the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador. This station was built by NASA in the 1960s as part of the first U.S. satellite tracking network, which later became part of NASA’s ground control for the Apollo missions. 

Jorge’s latest project is a collaboration with Ecuadorian space scientists, Indigenous scholars, environmental lawyers, and multimedia artists. Decolonizing Earth Observation reimagines how the Amazon is visualized from low Earth orbit, aiming to recalibrate and resituate satellite imaging away from extractive and surveillance purposes towards ecological restoration and Indigenous sovereignties.

Shannon Vallor

University of Edinburgh

Professor Shannon Vallor serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and is Programme Director for EFI’s MSc in Data and AI Ethics. She holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy.

Professor Vallor joined the Futures Institute in 2020 following a career in the United States as a leader in the ethics of emerging technologies, including a post as a visiting AI Ethicist at Google from 2018-2020.

She is the author of The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016).

She serves as advisor to government and industry bodies on responsible AI and data ethics. She is also Principal Investigator and Co-Director (with Professor Ewa Luger) of the UKRI research programme BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Discussants:

Philippe Sormani

Zurich University, University of Siegen

Dr Philippe Sormani is a Senior researcher at the Immersive Arts Space (IAS) of Zurich University of the Arts and the Media of Cooperation Research Centre at the University of Siegen, Germany. Drawing on and developing reflexive video ethnography, he has published on experimentation in and across different fields of activity, ranging from experimental physics (in Respecifying Lab Ethnography, 2014) to artistic experiments (in Practicing Art/Science, 2018). Currently, he is experimenting with “The Metaverse” (at IAS), while preparing a new book on “New AI” (at Siegen). Recent publications include “Interfacing AlphaGo” (Social Studies of Science 2023), The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel (2023) and “Renormalizing Science?” (Ethnographic Studies 2024). 

Vladan Joler

University of Novi Sad

Vladan Joler is SHARE Foundation co-founder and professor at the New Media department of the University of Novi Sad. He is leading SHARE Lab, a research and data investigation lab for exploring different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures, black boxes, and many other contemporary phenomena on the intersection between technology and society. 

Roundtable

Alessandro Delfanti

University of Toronto

Alessandro Delfanti is a Professor of Culture and New Media at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto.

 

Professor Delfanti’s work lies at the intersection of digital cultures and science and technology studies. His work is focused on the political economy of communication, digital labour, hacking, social movements, as well as open science.

Karen
Gregory

University of Edinburgh

Karen Gregory is a digital sociologist and ethnographer. Her work explores the nature and experience of self-employment in the digital economy with a focus on platform labour, risk, and precarity. 

She is the founder of the MSc in Digital Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also the Lead for the Digital/Data Research Theme in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She is also a co-lead for the Critical Data Studies Research Cluster at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

She is co-editor of the book Digital Sociologies (Policy Press 2016), Associate Editor at the Journal of Cultural Economy, and on the Editorial Board at Platforms and Society.

Before coming to Edinburgh, she was a lecturer at The City College of New York, where she developed and ran The City Lab@ The Center for Worker Education.

Kylie
Jarrett

University College Dublin

Kylie Jarrett is a Professor in the School of Information and Communication at University College Dublin.

She has been researching digital media since the 1990s with a focus on the political economy of the internet, including social media. Along with a range of studies of various platforms, she is author of Digital Labor (2022, Polity), and Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016, Routledge). She is also co-author of #NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (2019, MIT Press) and Google and the Culture of Search (2013, Routledge). With Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, and Rafael Grohmann, she is co-editor of the forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Digital Labor and is editor in chief of the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society. Her current research focus is platform work and digital labour but she also has expertise in the analysis of social media and expressions of gender and sexuality in that context. She is also researching platform traders with a forthcoming co-authored book on online craft retailer Etsy in production.

Emiliano
Treré

Cardiff University

Emiliano Treré is a Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor in the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences at the University of Valencia (Spain), where he leads the RedON (Reimagining Digital Activism, Overtourism, and Nomadism on a Burning Planet) project. 

He is also a Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture (currently on career break). An internationally recognized scholar with over two decades of experience, Treré is a leading authority on digital activism, critical data studies, algorithm studies, and digital disconnection, with a particular focus on the Global South. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian, he has authored five books and published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in seven languages. He co-founded the Big Data from the South initiative, co-directs the Data Justice Lab, and is a member of the Mediaflows research group. Treré has secured significant research funding and received multiple awards, including the ICA’s Outstanding Book Award and Honorable Mention (Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Interest Group), as well as the MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Award for Article of the Year.