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"What changes do technologies bring to the way we behave as individuals and as a society that might backfire their potential gains?" Key takeaway from our launch by Daniela Pigosso, pointing to the fact that human-centered engineering has to think and act beyond adoption and acceptance.

How do we, as a technical university, shape and engage the societal narratives about technology? Core question for an observatory for human-centered engineering. Another take away from our launch. Peter Vesborg warns against simplifications that prevents us from appreciating necessary tradeoffs.

What is our room for maneuver when we develop technology? Do we have agency? First key take away from our launch event yesterday with @adler-nissen.bsky.social from the National Center for AI in Society (CAISA). Thanks to everyone who came by and made the day very special 🙏 Stay tuned for more 📻

Today our monthly digital methods talk-walk took a recent special issue on LLMs in sociological research by @danielkarell.bsky.social and @thomasdavidson.bsky.social on a stroll through the 17th century peasant culture...

Den danske bot er en ung blond pige... Kig forbi Forskningsscenen på #fmdk i morgen 11:30s og hør mere om kulturelle værdier i vores sprogmodeller. Det bliver langhåret, men det bliver også noget med med både huttelihut, Emma Gad og Stuart Stardust. #folkemødet2025 #fmforskning

💥 Excited to share that our new article, “Recalcitrant Audiencing: Between Analytics and Creative Practice in the Film Industry", is now out in Convergence! Co-authored with @akmunk.bsky.social 💥 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Event announcement: Join us for a #workshop on June 2nd, 10am - 3pm! Together with team #DALOSS (KU), we are hosting a workshop on tools, practices, and ethnographic experiences related to destruction of data Limited spaces! For sign-up, detailed agenda & questions please write to sarfe@dtu.dk

Pop by for drinks tomorrow. The data is on the floor and our very own @taschn.bsky.social will be talking about algorithms in everyday eating.

Something is cooking at The Danish Technical Museum in Helsingør! Together with a group of researchers and the museum we have built an exhibition with the title #GroundingAI that you can experience from tomorrow, 11.04.2025. Learn more about the project here: grounding-ai.github.io

Something is cooking at The Danish Technical Museum in Helsingør! Together with a group of researchers and the museum we have built an exhibition with the title #GroundingAI that you can experience from tomorrow, 11.04.2025. Learn more about the project here: grounding-ai.github.io

#dkforsk #dkvid

Do we need an anthropological theory of cultural specificity in Large Language Models? Come help us figure it out and do a PhD among fantastic colleagues @taschn.bsky.social, @sarahfls.bsky.social, @johansoltoft.bsky.social, @lionbeam.bsky.social, @anderspucknielsen.dk, @juliakkirkegaard.bsky.social

ECHO Lab at the #STSHub2025 in Berlin this week! Together with colleagues from the #HumanCenteredInnovation section at #DTU we are attending the conference and exhibit a recent project on #webaccessibility at the poster session ! Find us at floor 4, Wednesday 14:00 to learn more about the project

Join os March 6th when @juliakkirkegaard.bsky.social and @akmunk.bsky.social will be holding their inaugural lectures as Professors of Social Studies of Energy and Computational Anthropology respectively. Sign-up necessary: www.man.dtu.dk/nyheder/kale...

Today: for the first time exhibiting 3/4 of our large scale #datavisualisation about #algorithms at Ballerup library. (Almost) 100 square metres of vinyl flooring showing 2 million scientific articles about AI. @akmunk.bsky.social giving a talk & introducing the map to the audience.

Two postdoc positions in our group!

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Hey @bsky.app! Newly started lab here. Focus on large-scale integrations of computational, qualitative, and participatory methods to study technology in society. Anchored at the Section for Human-Centred Innovation and the Division for Technology and Business Studies at DTU Management. Stay tuned.

Very happy to see this out, including our on paper on #Gephisto: jacomyma.github.io/gephisto/

🔬 🤖 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 🧵👇

Our SI on Repurposing Generative AI for Social Research now out with Sociologica: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1... We take early stock of LLMs as both instruments and objects of research. Contributions by @pettertornberg.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @lrossi.bsky.social, and many more.

I created this GitHub repository as a tutorial on how to create a datascape from large text materials. Made for an ECHOlab workshop on large-scale ethnographic data You can find it here if you're interested in trying your hand at creating similar datascapes. github.com/ECHOlab-DTU/...