Noortje Marres
@noortjem.bsky.social
Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
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Joint 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...
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...
free ticket 🎟️ – joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2
joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2, Wed 3 Dec 2025 - Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Gane...
www.tickettailor.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Joint 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...
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...
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📚🎊✨ 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
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚🎊✨ 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
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New 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
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New 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
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
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Authors: @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.
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Authors: @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.
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💡 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/...
“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/...
On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...
journals.sagepub.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
💡 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/...
“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
OSF
osf.io
April 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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
Opportunities
unu.edu
March 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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!
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Excited 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
@coeckelbergh.bsky.social
Cohabitability: Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth
@noortjem.bsky.social
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Academic #Environment #PhilSky #Technology
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
cetep.eu
February 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Excited 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
@coeckelbergh.bsky.social
Cohabitability: Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth
@noortjem.bsky.social
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Academic #Environment #PhilSky #Technology
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Join 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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t...
#ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Join 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
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"
February 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"
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?
February 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal
www.ft.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
January 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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...
Watch the it in full here (12 mins):
www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
Observatory - Logan — Careful Industries
www.careful.industries
December 19, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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!
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...
@mvaldeb.bsky.social et al. See: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
The Sociological Review Seminar Series 2025: winners announced
The 2025 winners, with funding from the Sociological Review Foundation, will lead academic symposia on movement in ethnographic method, feminist liberation imaginaries, social engineering after techla...
thesociologicalreview.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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...
@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...
Bruno Latour ou l'art d'assembler
Les 4, 5, 6 et 7 décembre prochains, Sciences Po rendra hommage à Bruno Latour. Il s’agit moins de célébrer un grand homme (bien qu’il le fût vraiment) que de renouer le fil d’une conversation, hélas ...
www.sciencespo.fr
December 3, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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...
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Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social
troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
troubling-ai.glitch.me
troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
troubling-ai.glitch.me
troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
troubling-ai.glitch.me
December 1, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social
troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
troubling-ai.glitch.me
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...
November 27, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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...
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Enjoyed 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.
Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)
From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Enjoyed 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...
to accommodate its limits… [but] such an infrastructural view is hard to advance given..Soon out! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
artezpress.artez.nl
November 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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...
to accommodate its limits… [but] such an infrastructural view is hard to advance given..Soon out! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
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📢 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!
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!
September 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
📢 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!
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!
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Join 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
Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207
September 7, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Join 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
Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207
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🔬 🤖 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 🧵👇
New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Summary 🧵👇
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journals.sagepub.com
August 19, 2024 at 8:40 AM
🔬 🤖 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 🧵👇
New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Summary 🧵👇
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new 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...
we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out publicdatalab.org/projects/plu...
Pluralising Critical Technical Practices – Public Data Lab
A gathering and reconsideration of critical technical practices in digital research and beyond. Contributions published in a special issue in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into Ne...
publicdatalab.org
December 13, 2023 at 11:21 AM
new 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...
we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out publicdatalab.org/projects/plu...
Where is AI in the street? How does it manifest in this everyday setting? The AI in the street recently organised a diagramming workshop hosted by Yasmine Boudiaf to find out. Read the workshop report here: aiinthestreet.substack.com/p/framing-ev...
May 24, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Where is AI in the street? How does it manifest in this everyday setting? The AI in the street recently organised a diagramming workshop hosted by Yasmine Boudiaf to find out. Read the workshop report here: aiinthestreet.substack.com/p/framing-ev...