The Data as Relation research project has had a collective paper called “A Bestiary of Digital Monsters’” accepted for publication for the IFIP 8.2 2018 Working Conference at San Fransisco State University.
Assistant Professor James Maguire was interviewed for Berlingske Tidende about data centers in Denmark in an article focused on the energy consumption of these mega factories. Read the article here (in Danish) Maguire argues that there is a large degree of secrecy connected to how companies, such as Apple, Facebook and Google, organise their activities, […]
The Technologies in Practice (TiP) research group at the ITU is happy to present Professor of Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, Jennifer Gabrys, as our next speaker in our TiP Talk Speaker Series. Details Title: How to Do Things with Sensors When and where: Thursday, 22nd of […]
Brit Winthereik from TiP, Simone Abram and Tom Yarrow from Durham University are the editors behind an anthology, which will be published in Bloomsbury Anthropology during the autumn of 2018. Professor from MIT, Stefan Helmreich, endorses the book with the following statement: “How do electromagnetic fields contour fields of social action? This bracing collection gathers […]
Associate Professor Vasillis Galis, Postdoc Vasiliki Makrygianni and PhD student Vasilis Vlassis participated and presented their work at the international workshop “How can Science and Technology Studies help to reflect on the political crisis associated with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers?” which was held on 26 – 28 September 2018, at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. They participated in […]
Recently Associate Professor Christopher Gad from TiP has been featured in media with stories ranging from novel technology-use in the FIFA World Cup 2018, the Municipality of Copenhagen and Google’s new Digital Learning Center in Copenhagen for unemployed people and smaller businesses as well as data-driven management. Googles gratis frokost – in Weekendavisen Vi har stadig brug for Guds hånd […]
Lea Schick and Brit Ross Winthereik received the news that their paper “Innovating Relations – Or Why Smart Grid is not too Complex for the Public” is among the most cited papers in the Science & Technology journal. The paper is featured in the journal’s editor’s pick for the 4S conference 2018.
Sundhedsmagasinet at DR1 interviewed TiPs PhD student Nanna Gorm about trends in health tracking and the individualisation of health. The full episode of “Sundhedsmagasinet”(in Danish) asks the question: “Is it healthy to act as your own doctor?”, and Gorm presents some findings from her own research with health tracking. DR also published an article about the popularity […]
Irina Shklovski has had two papers accepted to the Social Media and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in July 2018. The papers are co-authored with her students and based on one master’s thesis and one bachelor thesis. In the User We Trust: Unrealistic Expectations of Facebook’s Privacy Mechanisms. By Guillaume Nadon, Marcus Feilberg, Mathias Johansen and Irina […]
After a successful DASTS18 conference at the ITU in May, the DASTS organisers have decided to issue a Call for papers (CFP) for a Special Issue of STS Encounters (DASTS journal) on the theme Engaging the Data Moment. All are welcome to submit an abstract. See full details of CFP here
James Maguire was interviewed by Computerworld about his research about the Danish datacenter industry and he brings forward his ideas of how Denmark can benefit from big tech’s investments in hyper scale data centers in Denmark. Maguire argues that Denmark should focus on establishing itself as a knowledge hub for data and infrastructure and thereby attract […]
Associate Professor Steffen Dalsgaard has received funding for the research proposal for SOCCAR (Sociocultural Carbon) from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) ERC-programme which aims to strengthen the opportunities for talented researchers to obtain grants from the European Research Council. Go to DFF’s website to read the news (Text in Danish). The SOCCAR project The SOCCAR project seeks […]
Post doctoral researcher in TiP, James Maguire, has written a debate piece for Finans.dk about the marriage between the Danish state and Big Tech companies, who are moving in on Danish soil to build data centers and to fulfil their promises of investment, jobs and green energy. Maguire points out that it is still unclear […]
Live-streaming of the event How does digitalisation change the work conditions in public governance, and what are the opportunities and challenges by using data as governing technology? At this after work event, professionals from the public and private sector who work with data and digitalisation can hear about the latest research on datadriven public governance. The after work […]
By January 1st 2018, Head of TiP, Brit Ross Winthereik, started a new position as full professor at ITU, where she will continue her research, teaching and public engagement on digital transformations in society. Brit will give her inaugural professorial lecture ‘Seeing through infrastructure: Ethnographies of health IT, development aid, energy, and data’. The lecture […]
The team behind the Data as Relation research project invites practitioners and people with an interest in public digitisation to an afternoon event about governance in the data driven society. Event details The event takes place at the IT-University on the 13th of March 2018 from 14.30-16.00. The event consists of short presentations from our latest research […]
Anders Blok, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of Copenhagen University, joins TiP’s Environmental Futures seminar series to reconceptualise urban climate politics between wider sociology and Science and Technology Studies. November 20, 2017 15:00–16:30 @ Room 3A08. This talk builds on earlier work published in the Journal of Risk Research. In the face […]
The researchers in the Data as Relation project will retreat to the manor Fuglsang Herregård for 2 days to share and discuss the sub-projects with each other. The retreat will take place on November 5-7th 2017, and the purpose is to harvest the seeds the team planted, when the project was kicked off early in 2017. About […]
The Velux Foundation has granted 6 million Danish Kroner to the research project “Diginauts” which will investigate how migrants use mobile phones and other digital equipment to navigate geographically, socially and politically when they travel through Europe. The research project is a collaboration between Aalborg University, University of Copenhagen and the IT University with Associate […]
On May 24th-25th 2018, the ITU hosts the biannual Danish Association for STS (DASTS) Conference. The 2018 DASTS conference is organised by the Technologies in Practice research group. Themes The theme for the conference is the data moment, and DASTS states the following about their 2018 conference: “Given the speculative and hype infused conjuncture we […]
Head of TiP, Associate Professor Brit Ross Winthereik, will give a keynote presentation at the international workshop “Reconfiguring Care Infrastructures: Austerity and Innovation in European Welfare Services” at the University of Sussex on the 15-16 November 2017. The workshop will explore the reconfiguration of health and welfare in different European settings. The Department of Sociology is […]
Associate Professor from TiP, Vasilis Galis, just published the paper “We are all foreigners in an analogue world – cyber-material alliances in contesting immigration control in Stockholm’s metro system“ with co-author Jane Summerton. The paper investigates internal border controls in Sweden and the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of […]
PhD Fellow Jannick Schou and Associate Professor Morten Hjelholt, from the research groups TiP and Culture and Communication at ITU, just published a book called “The Digital Citizen”. The book (in Danish) asks “What does it mean to be made and to act as a digital citizen?” Drawing upon multiple empirical cases, including studies of citizen service centers […]
PhD Fellow Nanna Gorm is featured in Videnskab.dk, where she has written an article about health tracking in workplace wellness programs (in Danish). In the article, Gorm discusses what is at stake when companies initiate wellness programs tracking and measuring their employees’ health activities. Is it experienced as care or as a problematic surveillance? Along with researchers from the […]
At this year’s CHI conference, researchers from TiP, Nanna Gorm and Irina Shklovski received an Honorable Mention Award for the paper entitled “Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs”. The Honorable Mention award is awarded to the top 5% of all submissions to the SIGCHI 2017 conference. The CHI conference received over 2400 […]
The Data as Relation launch event on March 9th will now be livestreamed from 12 noon GMT+1, via Facebook. If you didn’t get a seat, follow along here
As part of the closing conference for the Alien Energy research project, we are pleased to invite you to the following public lectures at the ITU in October. Professor Stefan Helmreich “The Water Next Time: Changing Wavescapes in the Anthropocene” Wednesday Oct 19 at 16:00 in Aud 2, IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Abstract Do ocean waves have […]
How can we evaluate activity tracking initiatives in the workplace? Article by TiP researchers on activity tracking in the workplace presented at CSCW conference Nanna Gorm and Irina Shklovski have co-authored an article presenting findings from an observational study of a workplace participating in a step-counting campaign. The paper was presented at the Computer-Supported Cooperative […]
The IT-University of Copenhagen March 2nd, 3A12/14 10:00 –12:00 PM Abstract Technological innovation and advancements in manufacturing have turned consumer electronics into an easily replaceable commodity in people’s everyday lives. The result is an ever-increasing cycle of replacement that renders devices obsolete and creates large amounts of e-waste, threatening environmental sustainability. To tackle the problem […]
We all want a green future. But who is we? And what green future are we talking about? These questions are explored by ITU’s Technologies in Practice (TiP) research group and the strategic research area Energy Futures in their seminar series: Environmental Futures. Denmark aims to turn into a green nation, which means there’s already a […]
Investigators: Randi Markussen, Christopher Gad, Nina Boulus Date: 2011 – present Over the last four decades, information technology has begun to transform the electoral process—perhaps the most foundational process upon which democratic societies are built. Computers are gradually replacing manual parts of the democratic process by, for example, tallying results in Excel spreadsheets, predicting exit […]
Principal Investigator: Pernille Bjørn Post Doctoral fellow: Lars Rune Christensen Research Assistants: Helle Storm and Rasmus Eskild Jensen. Date: 2010 – present When software companies spread their activities across countries it is essential that the different actors (software developers) have common ground for their collaborative activities. It takes time to develop such common ground, and […]
Principal Investigator: Associate Professor, Pernille Bjørn Post doctoral Fellow: Lars Rune Christensen Research Assistant: Carina Rothbach Date: 2009 – present In the Global Engineering research project we investigate how Danish and Indian engineers collaborate when engaged in the engineering of factories. When engineering and constructing factories it typically takes about two years and the collaborative […]
The CITH research project is a collaborative effort between The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), The Technical University of Denmark (DTU), University of Copenhagen (KU) and Rigshospitalet. The project focuses on the treatment of patients with ICD at The Heart Centre at Rigshospitalet with the overall goal of improving both the communication and collaboration between all involved parties…
The research project Virtual Teams is a longstanding effort of investigating collaboration and use of technology in geographical distributed teams. The project was initiated in 2002 and is still ongoing…
This collaborative project focuses on ethnography in STS. The project takes seriously the void encountered between theoretical insights about what sociotechnical networks are and how they work, and the existing tools to explore such networks…
Environmental infrastructures refer to systems of coordinated technologies, standards and practices that are developed with the aim of ensuring environmental sustainability. This project will develop a comparative basis with which to analyze different modes and strategies for building sustainable environmental infrastructures…
The project is a collaborative effort between ITU, Simon Fraser University and a Canadian Pediatric Hospital focusing on the work practice and re-configurations of technology for Emergency Departments…