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SUMMARY:Critical Data Research in Praxis - Professor Mirca Madianou (Goldm
 isths University)\; Professor Nick Couldry (LSE)\; Professor Ulises Ali Me
 jia (SUNY Oswego)\; and Dr Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster)
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CONTACT:Sebastian Lehuede
DESCRIPTION:Research on data and data-intensive technologies such as Artif
 icial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly critical in the last decad
 e. Decolonial\, intersectional feminist and other theoretical frameworks h
 ave been employed to make sense of new and existing asymmetries. This work
 shop proposes to reflect about the implications of this turn for research 
 praxis. Some of the questions explored are: How can research make global-s
 cale claims in a way that is attentive to local agencies? What collaborati
 ons are possible between academia and marginalised communities? How can re
 searchers themselves reproduce extractive dynamics?\n\nThe four distinguis
 hed speakers have conducted work at the intersection of critical data stud
 ies and media and communications. The workshop will begin with a welcome l
 unch\, which will be followed by three thematic blocks. Each of these bloc
 ks will include a presentation (20 minutes) and group activities designed 
 and led by a chair (30 minutes). \n\nThere will be 25 participants\, who w
 ill range from PhD students to early career researchers. An invitation wil
 l be shared with the Cambridge community\, which will be extended to poten
 tial attendees from other universities depending on availability. The work
 shop is free of charge.\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nProfessor Mirca Madianou is a Pr
 ofessor at the Department of Media\, Communications and Cultural Studies a
 t Goldmisths University. Her research examines the social uses and consequ
 ences of communication technologies in a transnational and comparative con
 text. Madianou’s work makes t contributions to the areas of migration\, 
 disaster recovery\, humanitarianism and their intersection with digital te
 chnology. \n\nProfessor Nick Couldry is Professor of Media\, Communication
 s and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. 
 As a sociologist of media and culture\, he approaches media and communicat
 ions from the perspective of the symbolic power that has been historically
  concentrated in media institutions. Couldry is a co-founder of Tierra Com
 ún.\n\nProfessor Ulises Ali Mejias is Professor of Communication Studies 
 at SUNY Oswego in the United States. His research interests include critic
 al internet studies\, network theory and science\, philosophy of technolog
 y\, sociology of communication\, and political economy of digital media. U
 lises Ali Mejias is also a co-founder of Tierra Común and the Non-Aligned
  Technologies Movement.\n\nDr Andrea Medrado is a Senior Lecturer at the S
 chool of Media and Communication. Her current research analyses the ways i
 n which digital activists and art-ivists from marginalised communities in 
 Global South countries (particularly Brazil and Kenya) can exchange experi
 ences and lessons\, promoting an exploration of mutuality between them. Me
 drado is currently exploring participatory methods in the study of platfor
 ms and data-intensive technologies.\n\nHosts & Chairs:\n\nDr Sharath Srniv
 asan (host) is the David and Elaine Potter Associate Professor in the Depa
 rtment of Politics and International Studies\, a Fellow of King's College\
 , Cambridge\, and a Co-Director of CGHR. He is an interdisciplinary and ap
 plied researcher currently working on issues at the intersection of digita
 l technology and politics in Africa.\n\nDr Ella McPherson (host) is an Ass
 ociate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology as w
 ell as the Anthony L. Lyster Fellow in Sociology at Queens’ College and 
 Co-Director of the CGHR. She is also Deputy Head of Cambridge's School of 
 the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ella McPherson’s research is concern
 ed with symbolic struggles surrounding the media in times of transition.\n
 \nDr Sebastián Lehuedé (host & chair) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at th
 e CGHR\, a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human
  Rights at Harvard University\, and a member of the Tierra Común network.
  Applying decolonial theory\, his research focuses on the governance of di
 gital technology in relation to global social justice with a focus on Lati
 n America. \n\nSaide Mobayed Vega (chair) is a PhD researcher at the Depar
 tment of Sociology\, University of Cambridge interested in the intersectio
 ns between human rights\, violence against women\, digital technologies\, 
 and data. Saide is also a researcher and impact evaluator for The Whistle\
 , a project that develops digital tools to connect witnesses of human righ
 ts violations. She co-founded the Femi(ni)cide Watch Platform.\n\n
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