Talk by Liliana Bounegru (King's College London & Public Data Lab) at DMC Hub (April 29, 2025)
Talk by Liliana Bounegru (King's College London & Public Data Lab) at DMC Hub (April 29, 2025)
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Repurposing digital media for collective inquiry – notes from the Public Data Lab (2017-2025)
The Public Data Lab was founded in 2017 as an interdisciplinary network exploring what difference the digital makes in attending to public problems. It aims to develop materials and formats for collective inquiry with and about digital data, digital methods and digital infrastructures.
This talk will provide a walkthrough of a smorgasbord of projects and publications undertaken with the Public Data Lab, including around “fake news” and misinformation, air pollution, tax justice, climate denial, COVID-19 testing, conspiracy cultures, fact-checking, data journalism, nature-based solutions, political bots, forest fires, forest restoration, ecological listening, diasporic solidarity and collective identity formation.
It will reflect on what we have learned from these cross-institutional, interdisciplinary collaborations, highlighting the role of social sciences, arts and humanities research in repurposing digital media for collective inquiry.
Dr. Liliana Bounegru is Lecturer in Digital Methods at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. She is also co-founder of the Public Data Lab and affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative in Amsterdam and the médialab, Sciences Po in Paris. More about her work can be found at www.lilianabounegru.org.
The talk will be held on April 29 (Tuesday), 2025, from 14.00 to 16.00.
Venue: Sala de Consiliu, Decanat FCRP, et. 5
The Hub
The Hub
The Digital Media & Culture Hub is an interdisciplinary network that fosters dialogue, learning and exchange around research on digital media, technology and society in Central and Eastern Europe — including public interest digital investigations and methodologies.
Inspired by initiatives like the Public Data Lab, the hub aims to gather an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional community by connecting researchers, educators, media and civil society organisations and community groups who share an interest in how digital technologies shape societies and cultures in Central and Eastern Europe—and in the power relations that underpin these processes.
In doing so the hub seeks to enrich understanding of the relationships between digital media, technology, culture and power by centering perspectives grounded in this region, and support interventions shaped by them. Drawing inspiration from feminist science and technology studies and Internet studies, it aims to support collaborative research to situate and intervene around digital technologies in society and culture.
The Hub organises projects and events that foster dialogue and exchange on digital media research, investigations, and methodologies. If you’re interested in contributing to this initiative, we’d love to hear from you.
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