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SUMMARY:Workshop: Girls Just Want to Have Sc(AI)ence—Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Creating a Research Network to Foster Women’s Partcipation in Technoscience\nPlease note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office. \nWhile feminist approaches to technoscience are getting increasing attention\, the HRI/AI/HCI fields are still male-dominated. Similarly\, new technologies\, from assistive robots to chatbots\, are often imbued with the same intrinsic gender and ethnic stereotypes and biases present in our western society. An increasing number of scholars have thus called for a “feminist reboot” praising more ethical\, sustainable and inclusive research practices and epistemologies. \nWelcome to the workshop series Girls Just Want to Have Sc(AI)ence\, organized by WASP-HS Assistant Professor Valentina Fantasia. This series aims to foster knowledge on critical and feminist approaches to technoscience. By engaging scholars from various disciplines who work with AI\, the workshops will encourage discussion\, reflection\, and imagination on how feminist tools and theories can be used to design and implement AI technology that reflects collective societal values\, considering ethics\, diversity\, and equality. To achieve this\, the series will consist of five hands-on sessions\, each featuring a keynote presentation followed by group discussions. \nPractical Information\nThe workshop is arranged in a hybrid format on 18 March\, 2025– 12.30 to 13.20: Hybrid lecture on zoom– 12.30 to 15.30: On-site lecture plus workshop in SOL:A129b\, Helgonabacken 12\, Lund\, Sweden \nInvited speaker: Ericka Johnson\, Professor at Linköping University \nProgram\n12.30 – 13.20: Keynote by Ericka Johnson\, Professor at Linköping University\, hybrid.This talk will share some practical steps people can take in scientific work-environments – especially but not limited to academic ones – to nurture and draw on the benefits of diversity and inclusion. We will discuss concrete recruitmentand evaluation tips\, but also explore about how scientific practices and production can be changed to be more inclusive – and thereby also more relevant. \n(Coffee break) \n13.45-15.15: Hands-on workshopHere\, participants will be invited to share their own research practices and discuss how to use tools and theories from feminist approaches to design and implement more ethical\, diverse-oriented and equality-driven research.On-site participation\, also open to the public but pre-registration is required. \nRegistration\nPlease register for the event to participate. \nRegister for the workshop.
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/girls-just-want-to-have-scaience-creating-a-research-network-to-fostering-women-participation-in-technoscience/
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense – The Imaginaries and Politics of Welfare Technology: Renegotiating Elder Care Through Technology for an Ageing Population
DESCRIPTION:Maria Arnelid defends her doctoral thesis\, “The Imaginaries and Politics of Welfare Technology: Renegotiating Elder Care Through Technology for an Ageing Population\,” at Linköping University. Click here for a link to DIVA\, with more information about the dissertation.  Click here for a link to the event page at Linköping University.  \nAbstract\nIn Sweden\, a particular class of technology is imagined as a solution to an ageing population. “Welfare technology” is used in politics and policy documents to describe technology aiming to improve welfare through increased safety\, activity\, participation\, and independence for those with (or who risk developing) disabilities. The thesis focuses on welfare technology in elder care where it is used to\, for example\, administer medicine\, watch over people when they sleep\, and provide company through touch and conversation. The development and implementation of welfare technology is explored in two contexts: municipal care organizations and robotics research. The thesis analyzes the sociotechnical and robotic imaginaries informing the development and implementation of welfare technology and how they are materialized in the decision-making practices of municipal care organizations and robotics research. It also analyzes how ideals and practices of care and care work are renegotiated through the development and implementation of welfare technology\, and what this implies for the organization and valuation of elder care in Sweden. The analysis shows tensions between how different actors imagine the promises of welfare technology\, and between imaginaries of welfare technology for elder care and the characteristics and limitations of the organizations and technologies they rely on to materialize. It also points to how the development and implementation of welfare technology renegotiates ideals and practices of care away from an emphasis on human contact toward independent and remote care\, mobilizing a fragmenting logic where elder care is explored for potentially delegable tasks. Finally\, the thesis argues that discussions on how to maintain elder care provision in light of an ageing population cannot zoom in on welfare technology but need to make elder care a priority in more ways than as an opportunity for innovation. \nSupervisor\nKatherine Harrison\, Associate Professor at Linköping University Ericka Johnson\, Professor at Linköping University \nOpponent\nNete Schwennesen\, Professor at Roskilde University.
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defense-the-imaginaries-and-politics-of-welfare-technology/
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense – Enjoying the Fall - The Normalisation of the Far-Right as an Algorithmically-Mediated Fantasy of Ontological (In)Security
DESCRIPTION:Pasko Kisic Merino defends his doctoral thesis\, “Enjoying the Fall – The Normalisation of the Far-Right as an Algorithmically-Mediated Fantasy of Ontological (In)Security” at Karlstad University. Click here for a link to DIVA\, with more information about the dissertation.  Click here for a link to the event page at Linköping University.  \nAbstract\nOver the past decade\, the far-right has become normalised globally. The tolerance of these ideologies challenges the weakened modern liberal order\, signifying its limitations as modernity’s symbolic authority. This phenomenon involves an unprecedented ontology in which fantasies of “stolen” ethnocultural wholeness and supremacy propagate through social media governed by neoliberal imperatives of attention hoarding. Fantasies of self-continuity amidst crises – ontological security – are diffused via social media\, whose algorithmic governance of our everyday shapes identities and experiences of the political. This problem points to the pressing need to explore the psycho-political and techno-mediatic dimensions of far-right normalisation. This thesis provides a novel perspective by mobilising Lacanian ontological security to investigate the role of these dimensions in normalising the far-right in four levels. It analyses the role of White supremacy and deglobalisation in shaping othering fantasies; traditional and social media’s roles in conveying far-right actors as legitimate interlocutors; the mainstream right-wing’s enjoyment of far-right fantasies; and the algorithmic governance of far-right normalisation as a fantasy reinforcing neoliberalism and eroding liberal democracy. \nOpponent\nJason Glynos\, Professor at University of Essex. \n 
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defense-enjoying-the-fall-the-normalisation-of-the-far-right-as-an-algorithmically-mediated-fantasy-of-ontological-insecurity/
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