You can now watch the keynote discussion of our kick-off event, between Louise Amoore (Durham University) and Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam). In their conversation, Amoore and Milan discussed Amoore’s new book Cloud Ethics (Duke University Press) – which examines how algorithms transform society’s ethics and politics – and how it relates to Milan’s project…

Digital Sex Work in the Age of COVID

You can now watch the full seminar on “Digital Sex Work in the Age of COVID”, featuring Angela Jones, Yvette Luhrs, and Zaïre Krieger. Digitization is transforming the global sex industry. With their low barrier of entry, live, and highly interactive character, webcam sex platforms such as Chaturbate or LiveJasmin have become one of the…

Digital Public Infrastructures

On September 23, we held the Online Seminar “Digital Public Infrastructures” with the participation of Jack Linchuan Qiu (University of Singapore), Seda Gürses, (TU Delft), and Geert-Jan Bogaerts (PublicSpaces). The event, chaired by Thomas Poell, looked into whether there is a need for digital public infrastructures. It asks: Which digital public services are needed and…