katie mackinnon

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!

Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!

This panel foregrounds the politics of storage as a key site through which the material, temporal, and environmental dimensions of data are negotiated.

It invites papers that approach data storage through the lens of DEEP TIME.

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P245: Deep Time and the Politics of Storage This panel foregrounds the politics of storage as a key site through which the material, temporal, and environmental dimensions of data are negotiated. It

📢Call for Abstracts: "Deep Time and the Politics of Storage" (Open Panel) at EASST in Krakow, Sept 8-11 2026.

Calling all storage-heads! Let's talk deep time!🦕

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Two Fixed-Term Postdoctoral Researcher Positions The University of Turku invites applications for two fixed-term postdoctoral researcher positions for a period of two years within the thematic profiling area Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age (Dig...

Postocs working on cultural heritage and digital culture, ahoy!

Katie Mackinnon | Library Innovation Lab InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton.

What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

It's 10.40pm here in Copenhagen and we've just entered the third session of this panel series on data loss at #4S2025! Here's are some ongoing reflections on the amazing papers in the series! #STS #DataLoss

@nannathylstrup.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social @esmeec.bsky.social @frederikschade.bsky.social

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This Sat. Sept 6 we have three very exciting #dataloss panels at #4S2025! While some of our team won't be there in person, we are all thrilled to host these critical discussions examining loss and erasure as constitutive forces in digital systems. Join us tomorrow through the links below!

Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling.

Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.

Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!

Ghosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures - Will Orr, 2025 Absences are inescapable in data. Data collection always focuses on some elements while occluding others. Yet, how absences are considered and recorded within d...

My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣
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🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15

🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM
20-23 APR 2026

#webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities

Deadline for proposals July 27

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Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Benjamin N. Jacobsen

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It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨

Event poster: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory, June 19, 14-15.30. University of Copenhagen.

✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.

@ktmac.bsky.social presenting her amazing
@erc.europa.eu
research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025

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www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/

headed to #RESAW25 this week ✈️
Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖

@nannathylstrup.bsky.social

This afternoon! 🌟✨

Event announcement: Join us for a #workshop on June 2nd, 10am - 3pm!

Together with team #DALOSS (KU), we are hosting a workshop on tools, practices, and ethnographic experiences related to destruction of data

Limited spaces!
For sign-up, detailed agenda & questions please write to sarfe@dtu.dk

Seeing AI – a series of research and public engagement events - Digital Society Research Cluster Understanding the impact of AI on social, cultural and political life has been at the heart of our new initiative – the AI Literacy working group. “AI literacy” (or even […]

My colleagues and I are doing a bunch of cool events on making sense of AI from a critical social science perspective over the next two months. First up, our event on visual AI literacies on May 30th: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/10/s...