Noortje Marres
Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
- Reposted by Noortje MarresJoint book launch at King’s 🌟 Featuring: • @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures • @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires • @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social & @joannazylinska.bsky.social 📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
- Reposted by Noortje Marres📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Noortje MarresNew paper from the team behind the BRAID Scoping project "AI in the street": Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
-
View full threadReposted by Noortje MarresAuthors: @noortjem.bsky.social, @alex-taylor.bsky.social, @mrsbunz.bsky.social, Thao Phan, Dr. Maya Indira Ganesh, Dominique B., Yasmine Boudiaf, Rachel Coldicutt, Iain Emsley, Beatrice Gobbo, Louise Hickman, Manu Luksch, Dr @bettinanissen.bsky.social, Mukul Patel, Luis Soares.
- Reposted by Noortje Marres💡 New publication alert! “On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now. 📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics
- Interested in turning the question “where are AI’s publics”? into a data mapping strategy? Do come work with @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Tommaso Ciarli, Ismael Rafols, Cian O’Donovan and myself!
- We're looking for a postdoc for our Metascience project, based in Maastricht. Details here. unu.edu/merit/about-... @noortjem.bsky.social
- Reposted by Noortje MarresExcited to share this CfP for a conference organized by my wonderful colleagues at CETE-P! 📣 @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Cohabitability: Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth @noortjem.bsky.social @joannazylinska.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Academic #Environment #PhilSky #Technology
- Reposted by Noortje MarresJoin us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t... #ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social
- Very clear demonstration of how engineering is being deployed as a power tool and staged as power politics, gone are the days when we could think of "technocracy" as "post-politics"
- What's really behind Elon Musk and DOGE's AI schemes open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...
- Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?
- Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy
- Critical situations of Covid-19 identified by members and partners of IndieSAGE, the group of scientists that formed in 2020 to provide expert advice on the pandemic response. New article in Social Studies of Science with @mvaldeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306... Visualisations by G. Terenghi
- Watch this great documentary report and understand what “AI” looks like from the ground, in Logan Australia. Actually, it is not just looks, but also sharp commentary, including on the retail model, and magical twins to boot!
- Jeni Lee and I made a documentary on drone delivery trials in Logan as part of the AI-in-the-street project w @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social @louhicky.bsky.social Watch the it in full here (12 mins): www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
- Symposium alert! “Artificial societies: Social engineering after the Techlash” will happen in March at the U of Warwick with support from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social w Mona Sloane @karengregory.bsky.social organised by @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al. See: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
- Interdisciplinarity French style: anthropologists, artists, philosophers, physicists, designers and sociologists will come together to continue the conversation with Bruno Latour’s work and each other. For 4 days later this week in Paris: www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...
- Reposted by Noortje MarresCool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.me
- This still sums up AI in the street best for me: “it’s difficult to know whether technology in the street is even functional: ‘In my street, we have a semi-functional environmental sensor: someone backed into it with their car so we’re not sure if it still works.” theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...
- Reposted by Noortje MarresEnjoyed the Conversation post from @noortjem.bsky.social on #ai and #aiinthestreet: theconversation.com/five-ways-yo.... Disclosure: I also worked on the project but I discovered new things in this post.
- It really does look like @mayameme.bsky.social is going to bring it all together in her new book! “the driverless car …works when the world around it transforms to accommodate its limits… [but] such an infrastructural view is hard to advance given..Soon out! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
- Reposted by Noortje Marres📢 So happy with the ✨awesome✨ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street. Taken aback by how much we’ve done! See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st... Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more!
- Reposted by Noortje MarresJoin our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207
- Reposted by Noortje Marres🔬 🤖 Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: what are algorithms doing in the scientific littearature? 🔬 🤖 New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Summary 🧵👇
- Reposted by Noortje Marresnew article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and Karin van Es has just been published in Convergence jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/p... we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out publicdatalab.org/projects/plu...
