This is a Story About Us: The Flash, Academic Journal Analytics, and the Queer Politics of Algorithmic Risk
Gender & Diversity Brown Bag Conversation
On 10 November the next Gender & Diversity Brown Bag Conversation titled This is a Story About Us: The Flash, Academic Journal Analytics, and the Queer Politics of Algorithmic Risk will take place. Dr Anne Kustritz (Media and Performance Studies) will discuss the key conjunctions between the politics of academic freedom, the state of the digital public sphere for queer activism, and the business of academic publishing.
What are the politics of algorithmic risk for scholars currently working on topics related to women, gender, and sexuality within the context of datafied journal analytics and the rise of the digital alt-right? As journals increasingly use data analytics to chart various measures of impact and engagement, and academics are under increasing institutional pressure to make all scholarship open access, to what extent does publication make us vulnerable both to economic exploitation and the chilling effects of political harassment?
Campaigns of harassment
On the one hand, open access makes scholarship available to a much wider public, but the way that scholarly material is tweeted, liked, and recirculated also entails a largely invisible flow of profit. On the other hand, the broad public visibility and searchability of open source scholarship tagged with metadata may also make scholars more vulnerable to focused campaigns of harassment.
Programme
| 12:00 – 12:05 | Virtual walk in and meet and greet |
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| 12:05 – 12:10 | Opening by the Gender & Diversity Hub team |
| 12:10 – 12:15 | Introduction of the panel Chair: TBA |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Presentation: This is a Story About Us: The Flash, Academic Journal Analytics, and the Queer Politics of Algorithmic Risk Dr. Anne Kustritz, Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. Respondents: •&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Natalia Avlona, PhD Candidate at the National Technical Univeristy Athens, Lawyer, Junior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy), Research Assistant @TARGET (Taking a Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality for Gender Transformation). |
| 12:45 | Discussion with the audience |
About the Gender and Diversity Hub
The main aim of the Gender and Diversity Hub is to serve as a platform for stakeholders to (1) access the multidisciplinary expertise of UU scholars in gender, diversity and processes of in- and exclusion, and (2) to join forces with societal partners in solving complex gender and diversity issues and develop strategies for the implementation of diversity in order to achieve societal inclusion and change. The Hub is chaired by prof. dr. Rosemarie Buikema (Humanities), prof. dr. Belle Derks (Social Sciences) and prof. dr. Linda Senden (Law), and coordinated by dr. Ruth van Veelen (Social Sciences), Birte Böök (Law) and Astrid Kerchman (Humanities). For more information, please visit the Gender and Diversity Hub’s website.
- Start date and time
- End date and time
- Location
- Online via Teams
- Entrance fee
- Free entrance
- Registration
Please do not forget to register in order to be sent the link for the Teams meeting the day before. Due to the brown bag lunch taking place online, there will be no free lunch this time.