Researchers from TiP will participate in events at this year’s Techfestival in Copenhagen 5-9 September 2018. “Talk Show: AI – Making Sense of its Complexities and Opportunities“. Associate Professor Irina Shklovski from TiP will be the talk show host. The event takes place Friday the 7th of September from 18:00-18.45. “Expanding the Pool – Female Talent to […]

During the spring of 2018, the Technologies in Practice group came together to collaborate on writing and crafting a glossy magazine. As researchers we often work individually, and thus we were looking for a project that we could do together as a group, which would tell peers and interested others about our approach to the […]

The paper “Anticipatory infrastructural practices: The coming of electricity in rural Kenya” by research assistant and cand.mag Lea Enslev, ethnographer and cand.it Lykke Mirsal and Professor Brit Winthereik has been published by Elsevier Energy Research and Social Science. The paper explores how the extension of the national electricity grid in a village in rural Kenya affects households’ […]

TiP’s Irina Shklovski, Associate Professor, was interviewed for the Danish newspaper ‘Politiken’ about the Creepy Leaks machine that she and Erik Grönvall, Associate Professor in the Digital Design department at the ITU, developed together. As part of ‘Forskningens Døgn’ where ITU opened the doors for visitors to show what kind of research goes on at […]

Denmark – The Data Kingdom? This week Weekendavisen published the article ‘Datariget’ (The Data Kingdom) on the current constructions of data centers in Denmark. For this story TiP’s James Maguire, post doctoral researcher, was interviewed about his research on why Denmark has become an attractive location for European data centers. Maguire points out to Weekendavisen that there is an assumption that […]

The Research Network for the Anthropology of Technology hosts their first seminar on May 2-3 2018. On the first day, there will be a grand opening of the network with keynote lectures by Prof. Kirsten Hastrup, Copenhagen University and Prof. Marianne Lien, Oslo University, a roundtable discussion on the anthropology of technology beyond universities and […]

DASTS 2018 – Engaging the Data Moment A preliminary program for the  DASTS (Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies) 2018 Conference is now ready, and conference registration is open to participants both with and without a paper-presentation. The conference takes place at the IT University of Copenhagen 24th and 25th May 2018. Register for the conference […]

The fifth decennial Aarhus conference, Critical Alternatives, focuses on alternatives related to information technologies from a quality of life perspective. Over the years the involvement of end-users has become standard procedure in many organizations, today end-user involvement is not always critical action per se. It has been the aim with the conference to revitalize the […]

Third year GBI students, Mads Christophersen, Peter Mørck and Tue Odd Langhoff’s paper “Unforeseen Challenges: Adopting Wearable Health Data Tracking Devices to Reduce Health Insurance Costs in Organizations”, supervised by Pernille Bjørn (TiP), has been accepted into the proceedings for the Human-Computer Interaction international conference 2015 in Los Angeles. What is your project about? Very […]