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nanna thylstrup (nannathylstrup.bsky.social)
@NThylstrup
. PI of "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" (ERC Stg, 2023-2028)
EducationDenmarkkunstogkulturvidenskab.ku.dk/ansatte/?pure=…Joined May 2018

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As much as I wish it were a 1000 year project it’s actual timeline is if course 2023-2028
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📢Announcing PhD and postdoc positions for my new @ERC_Research project "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" (2023-3028) @koebenhavns_uni. Deadline Oct 15.✨ Phd: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige Postdoc(s): jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige
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I am immensely grateful to be among this year' recipients of an ERC Starting Grant. My project is titled: “Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies” (DALOSS) - 1/7 #ERCStG
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More than 3,000 ambitious young researchers entered the 2022 competition for ERC Starting Grants. 🎊 Congratulations to the 408 who were selected for 🇪🇺#EUfunded support this time! Maybe you know one? List ➡️ bit.ly/StGlaureates #ECR #PhDLife #PhDChat #AcademicChatter
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I have a guest essay in the !! It was a delightfully challenge to turn the basic puzzle of my new project, "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" into a guest essay in
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Data loss is ubiquitous in a digital society. To curtail it, regulatory regimes and preservation practices need to be aligned with the digital world as it exists today, writes @NThylstrupnyti.ms/3CCnbJF
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Streaming services are changing the conditions of our cultural record through new patterns and logics of removal. No more “long tail”. This is one of the issues I describe in my guest essay nytimes.com/2023/06/21/opi.
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‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ has been canceled at Paramount+ and will reportedly be removed from the streaming service in the coming days.
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Grateful and in awe of 's panoramic, incisive and inspiring review that considers not only Your Computer is on Fire, Techno-Precarious and Uncertain Archives as singular books but also what these volumes collectively suggest for broader patterns of technology critique.
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3. "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (@MITPress), edited by @NThylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Kristin Veel. It has contributions by 70+ scholars and makers. Look at this table of contents: direct.mit.edu/books/book/500.
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1) I am *in awe* of scholars who can both conduct amazing research AND provide outlets for other researchers. One example is the brilliant and Staffan Ericson's podcast . I was so grateful for the invitation to discuss my project Data Loss (in UK
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Avsnitt 23 av @MPodden ute! De talar om förlorad data med Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Köpenhamns universitet, samt läser Jacques Derrida, om arkivfeber. Nanna tänker på Laurie Anderson.
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It also feels incredibly strange to announce this on Twitter as it is falling apart.
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I am immensely grateful to be among this year' recipients of an ERC Starting Grant. My project is titled: “Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies” (DALOSS) - 1/7 @ERC_Research #ERCStG @CBScph twitter.com/ERC_Research/s…
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I'm very happy to be working on this SI proposal with , and . We seek contributions that shed more light on the entanglements between the field of development and data/platforms/machine learning/cloud infrastructures.
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Inviting submissions for a Special Issue proposal #Data #Platforms & #AI for Development. Themes: 📷Data governance 📷Platforms and infrastructures 📷AI & cloud computing Abstract deadline: June 9 More info: tinyurl.com/DevelopmentCfP @JulianPosada0 @NThylstrup @grohmann_rafael
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Bring out the champagne, our article is "trending" at 🥂! If you want to read it but don't have institutional access send a DM ( & ). It should be of interest to people working in social studies of finance, platformization, ML and open source
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NEW @BondoHansen and Nanna Thylstrup - Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10
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1) Such a privilege to work with the brilliant on our new article, 'Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling', just out in .
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I am truly happy to see @NThylstrup and my article 'Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling' out in brilliant @JCultEcon. The article is on the use of open source (OS) ML modelling platforms and data repositories in finance (1/7) twitter.com/JCultEcon/stat…
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So glad to see speaking out about the hostile erasure of queer presence by Amazon's infrastructures (and looking forward to reading 's upcoming book on how the Internet became straight)!
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Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced product descriptions (the fancy graphics you sometimes see at the bottom of a book page on Amazon).
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ICYMI📯SI proposal call: "Datafied Development," a call for papers that explore the intersection between #development, #data, #platforms, and #algorithms. Editors: Abstract submission: 9th June. Email for more info!📯
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Another reminder about the SI proposal call myself, @JulianPosada0 @grohmann_rafael @NThylstrup are running on #data #platforms #ArtificialIntelligence The last date for abstract submission is 9th June. Details below. Let us know if you need further information. twitter.com/ibalilebali/st…
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The Wayback Machine was used to identify a network of 885 websites deployed by the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for covert communication #uncertainarchives
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Using just this one website (plus the Wayback Machine, passive DNS data, and Internet scan data) we were able to map out a total of 885 websites in 29+ languages, potentially geared towards assets in 36+ countries.
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📯SI proposal call: seeking abstracts exploring intersections btw #development + #data, #platforms, and #algorithms. Eds: Amir Anwar Julian Posada Rafael Grohmann Nanna B. Thylstrup Deadline: 9th June. Email for more info
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We have received some excellent submssions already. And the last date is approaching fast. 9th June. So, a final reminder about the SI proposal call myself, @JulianPosada0 @grohmann_rafael @NThylstrup are running on #data #platforms #ArtificialIntelligence twitter.com/ibalilebali/st…
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I always knew that my money on newspaper subscriptions were well-spent, but after having been through the editing and fact checking process I am so impressed at the work that goes into refining and validating each sentence. Thank you !
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We live in a digital society — it's time our data-management practices caught up to the times. It's been wonderful to edit @NThylstrup on data loss, and how to prevent it — give it a read here: nytimes.com/2023/06/21/opi
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“ Here in Nairobi, Sama employees who speak at least 11 African languages between them toil day and night, working as outsourced Facebook content moderators . They perform the brutal task of viewing and removing illegal or banned content … before it is seen by the average user.”
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.@SamaAI, a company whose mission is to provide people in places like Nairobi with “dignified digital work" & won data labelling contracts with corps like Google & Microsoft as "ethical AI" mistreats its East African workers & pays little as $1.50 per hour time.com/6147458/facebo
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Super happy to see this special issue on "Reclaiming the Human in Machine Cultures of out. Honoured to be a part of it. I couldn't have asked for better editors, huge congrats to and @TeachGuz for ensuring the completion of this excellent collection.
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Special Issue: Reclaiming the Human in Machine Cultures edited by @simone_natale and @TeachGuz journals.sagepub.com/toc/mcsa/44/4
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I look so much forward to joining and nazLi akhtari for today's panel at 9am at #ICA23 to talk about silences and refusals. I am grateful for 's and 's work in putting this panel together. And can't wait for round 2 with too
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I had to drop out of #ICA23 due to being in the last few weeks of pregnancy, but do make sure to attend the panel that I organised with @riankasingh on Mediated Silence and Feminist Refusals, Sat 27 at 9am!
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This was a fun short article to write w and for the excellent on the concept of #traceability that is often promoted in AI and blockchain discourses but rarely discussed in detail as a complex and contingent concept
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⛓️ What is #traceability? 📄 New journal article by CIES post-doc @matthewarcher5 among others investigates this deceptively simple but fundamentally crucial research topic in #blockchain technologies Read here ⬇️ econstor.eu/bitstream/1041
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It was an immense joy to chair the panel today on the social implications of quantum computing and technology at including discussions on how to balance the fun of quantum research w the gravity of political and social realities
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Hvordan vil kvanteinformation og -beregning forme vores fremtid? Det er et af de spørgsmål, vi tager op til seminaret 'The Quantum Future' den 8. juni i Videnskabernes Selskab. Se program og tilmeld dig her: royalacademy.dk/da/Arrangement
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Very grateful for this generous and thoughtful review of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for the age of Big Data" by in . CC @_annie_ring
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This #InternationalWomensDay, check out @giulia_taurino's book review of Urgent Archives from @mitpress edited by @Agos_Daniella, @NThylstrup, @KristinVeel, @_annie_ring, & @kanarinka. Read more about the authors' feminist postmodern archival perspective: infoculturejournal.org/book_reviews/B
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Excited to see that my recent article coming out of the project is trending on ! Sadly "The Ethics and Politics of Data Sets in the Age of Machine Learning: Deleting Traces and Encountering Remains" is not OA, but I'm happy to share if you send me a DM.
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✨Very happy to be able to share my new article titled "The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains" which is out in @MCSjournal open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11 #datasets #MachineLearning #aireuse
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Was an immense pleasure to engage with those attending my talk on the politics of “Toxic data” across multiple time zones from Peru to India ! Thank you and for organising this summer school on Digital Politics digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/digital-politi
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Extremely interesting keynote on the entanglings of nature and culture in toxic data by @NThylstrup. Where there is dirt, there is system – we define purity, decay, dirt, and toxicity. Also, connection of data to memory, and memory to identity. Mindblown! #digitalpoliticsmanmet
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Looking forward to reading the abstract submissions for our track at #EASST2022 Madrid July 6-9. Deadline feb 1st! #algorithms #inference #MachineLearning #futures
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#EASST2022 includes our track on Inference Worlds - The Politics of Machine Learning Futures with @AmooreLouise @NThylstrup @BN_Jacobsen do please send us your abstracts by February 1st More on the theme here: easst2022.org/IMAGENES/panel
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A wonderful and welcoming team of organisers, an amazing keynote and an excellent theme. I wish I could still be counted as a "young" scholar, if only to join this summer school.
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"Thinking (with) Care": CPF European Summer School for Cultural Studies, organized by the Universities of Amsterdam/Leiden. This Summer School was vital during my own PhD studies and I'm honored to be a keynote this Summer. Deadline for proposals Jan 31. nica-institute.com/call-for-paper
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Yes. The moral discussions on training data echo previous discussions on copying. If you want to learn more you can find my chapter on shadow libraries, colonial dimensions of piracy discourses and legal manoeuvres of tech companies for free at the excellent (below) 👇🏻
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There was outrage and a criminalisation push when students in poor countries were photocopying books. But now, when big, fat AI companies use every piece of knowledge generated by others to profit and create power silos, the narrative and reaction are so soft.
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If you are interested in (the politics of) content moderation ‘s brilliant dissertation adds crucial perspectives - highly recommended read
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My dissertation "“It ain’t all good:" Machinic abuse detection and marginalisation in machine learning" is now online and available (etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/30950/)🎉🎉 Inspired by @MayaMeme and @DrLulzzz I'm gonna write a quick summary thread - as I decided to redo most of my work. 1/9
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Very grateful for 's generous engagement with "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" in . And a dream to be featured alongside @professorcaz's amazing new book "Urgent Archives" in a stellar special issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/47975!
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This #InternationalWomensDay, check out @giulia_taurino's book review of Urgent Archives from @mitpress edited by @Agos_Daniella, @NThylstrup, @KristinVeel, @_annie_ring, & @kanarinka. Read more about the authors' feminist postmodern archival perspective: infoculturejournal.org/book_reviews/B
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15) 's beautiful keynote “Let Them Research Cake: Exploring Loss, Lessness and the Spirit of Abstraction in Narrative Building and Practices of Collecting” at the Item not Found conference which I wish I could have attended
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🌟Very grateful for the invitation to speak at this upcoming conference on the Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation. I will be in great company and I look so much forward to hearing the papers #PoliticsofMachineLearning
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✨Call for Papers✨ Super happy to be organizing this workshop on the ‘Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation’ in November @UvA_IAS W/ keynotes from @FloJaton @NThylstrup and @claudia_aradau Deadline for Abstracts: June 30 twitter.com/ASchjoett/stat…
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I am thrilled to keynote alongside and . Looking forward to hearing the panels. And I will myself share some thoughts about digital loss.
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The deadline for registering to attend this year's DIGITAL HUMANITIES CONGRESS is 31st August. We've got a great Conference Programme: dhi.ac.uk/dhc/2022/ Keynote speakers are Ruth Ahnert, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Marc Alexander. Register here: dhi.ac.uk/dhc2022/
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Looking forward to engaging with presentations and discuss all things platforms and culture ☺️
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This PhD seminar in Copenhagen looks good, with @NThylstrup and Olga Goriunova as keynotes: Arts, culture and algorithms: Forms, formats, and genres in the age of platformisation. May 9-11. Apply by March 15. ntnu.no/documents/1263
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I also want to acknowledge the works that have appeared since I submitted this article (gotta love the timeline of academia), not least 's amazing book "Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In" which should be mandatory reading for all mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/d🙏🏻
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1/ Grateful for David Reamer's excellent review of Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data co-edited with @_annie_ring in : "One clear strength of this collection is the diversity of included voices ...
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Now on OnlineFirst Book Review: Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, Kristin Veel Reviewed by David Reamer
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Extremely proud and happy for and everyone involved in this project
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Extremely honored that our proposal for a Centre of Excellence on Global Mobility Law has been accepted by the Danish National Research Foundation! Particularly happy that the foundation sees the need for more basic research in this area and excited to work w/ outstanding peers. twitter.com/GrundforskFond…
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🙏After having written a shorter piece, I cannot imagine how long it must have taken to write 's amazing Magazine article "You Call This ‘Flexible Work’?" nytimes.com/2023/04/12/mag
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via @NYTOpinion A Must Read: ⁦@NThylstrup⁩ on the politics of digital memory. Check it out! nytimes.com/2023/06/21/opi
I deeply appreciate the employees' and volunteers' willingness to talk to me about how they perceive, experience and seek to prevent data loss!
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Thoughtful op-ed from @NThylstrup in @nytimes about the importance of preserving history & culture in the digital age, and how the lawsuit against our library threatens public access for all. #VanishingCulture #DigitalRightsForLibraries nytimes.com/2023/06/21/opi
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Congratulations for winning this! So well deserved.
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Read the @SurvSoc_Journal award-winning papers for 2021: Matthew Archer’s (@matthewarcher5) “Imagining Impact in Global Supply Chains: Data-Driven Sustainability and the Production of Surveillable Space” #sustainability #surveillance #openaccess ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surv
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“ESG analysis is seen as valuable not because of some unique social, environmental … but because it helps asset managers more effectively govern the companies in which they are invested.” great work from
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OnlineFirst - "Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism" by Matthew Archer: #sustainability #ESG #assetmanagercapitalism #governance journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11
[dk] Meget taknemmelig for 's generøse og seriøse anmeldelse af "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (eds. , , @_annie_ring & ) i denne udgave af !
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Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift 1/2022 er ute: Christian Refsum om tilknytning og løsrivelse hos Knausgård; Lukas Lehner om Strindberg og «selvets mekanikk»; Eivind Røssaaks bokessay om big data (Uncertain Archives/MIT Press, 2021), mm. idunn.no/toc/nlvt/curre
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