Our Research
We believe in publicly engaged research and we strive to make our research findings as available and accessible as possible. Many of our projects are aimed at informing policy makers and we work closely with different organisations to tackle context-specific problems. Our approach combines ethnographic methodologies with critical discourse analysis, organizational studies, platform analysis, quantitative methodologies, and participatory action research.
Research areas
Our research strategy is interdisciplinary, critical, and cross-cultural in nature and focuses on the following areas of investigation:
- AI Cultures and Data Futures
- Data Privacy and Data Rights
- Media Cultures and Social Change
- Social Media and Democracy
Current research projects
Human Error Project
This research project combines anthropological theory with critical data and AI research, and aims to investigate the fallacy of algorithms when it comes to reading humans.
More information can be found here:
- Project details
- Project website
Child | Data | Citizen
This research project examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.
More information can be found here:
- Project details
- Project website