critical infrastructure lab

The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Summer School on ‘Visual methods: From platform aesthetics and data visualisation to AI hermeneutics’. The format is that of a (social media and web) data sprint, with tutorials as well as hands-on work for telling stories with data. There is also a programme of keynote speakers. It is intended for advanced Master’s students, PhD candidates and motivated scholars who would like to work on (and complete) a digital methods project in an intensive workshop setting. For a preview of what the event is like, you can view short video clips from previous editions of the School.

Dates: 1-12 July 2024

More information here:
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2024

https://summerschool.uva.nl/content/summer-courses/digital-methods-summer-school/digital-methods-summer-school.html

5G, de vijfde generatie draadloze technologie, staat aan de vooravond van een revolutionaire verschuiving in de manier waarop we communiceren, werken en leven. Deze geavanceerde technologie belooft niet alleen ultrasnelle mobiele connectiviteit, maar biedt ook een breed scala aan toepassingen die onze samenleving zullen transformeren. Maar is dit wel iets wat we moeten willen? En wat heeft 5G de consument te bieden?

Sprekers:

Aina Seerden

Imme Raurus

Niels ten Oever

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Join us on Friday, June, 14th when Niels ten Oever will be speaking about his recent paper ‘Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Actions and Effects‘ at Workshop session 3.

The 2024 Politicologenetmaal (or: Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries) will be held in Maastricht, bringing together political scientists from over 40 universities for two days of inspiring workshops, thought-provoking discussions, and valuable networking opportunities.

Please check the event website for more information and the programme.

Description: 

The war in Ukraine is known to have informed and inspired the acceleration of EU legislations aimed at strengthening the EU’s capacity to protect its “cyberspace” against the spread of disinformation and foreign interference, which the European Commission now equates to “ European digital sovereignty”.

While many have claimed the predominant discursive nature of digital sovereignty policies in the EU, recent sanctions banning the online broadcasting of Russian media outlets on EU territory could be interpreted as one of the first techno-material digital sovereignty measures. In this seminar, Prof. Niels ten Oever will present his latest research on this topical issue by exploring the implications of these recent sanctions for the European approach to Internet infrastructures and digital sovereignty.

Speaker:

Prof. Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam

You can find out more about this online event here.

Despite ever-increasing discourse about internet fragmentation and digital sovereignty, the world has never been more digitally connected. At the same time, information networks are continuously being reconfigured by states and corporations at different layers of the stack. Taking this into account, what methods and theoretical approaches can be levered to analyze power in communication networks today? In this talk we will analyze the implementation of EU sanctions against Russian media, and the development of 5G and internet standards to see how the developing framework of infrastructural ideologies can help us understand the shaping of global communication infrastructures while taking the political and the material into account.

Niels ten Oever – assistant professor at the European Studies department and co-principal investigator with the critical infrastructure lab at the University of Amsterdam

Valentin Goujon – Doctorant au médialab (Sciences Po)

Hugo Estecahandy – Doctorant chez Institut Français de Géopolitique

Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

More info here