Dr. Btihaj Ajana

Professor of Ethics and Digital Culture @Kingsdh. Former Marie Curie Fellow @AIAS_dk.📱⌚️🖥😷🎬

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Pleased to annouce the publication of our new book "The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives": https://t.co/eulOGMQKAL
@EmeraldGlobal
@kingsartshums @AIAS_dk @kingsdh @KingsCollegeLon
@twsguidi @Karl_A1978 @DrDigi_Health @girlslike_us @phoebemoore

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Just arrived: my first publication in Italian ☺️ in volume "Incorporazioni: Prospettive storiche e teoriche", edited by Angela Michelis and Francesco Pisano. https://t.co/EaYzLLTHoE

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Recording from our "Imaginative Digital Futures" symposium, hosted by the Centre for Attention Studies at King's College London, is now vailable on: https://t.co/r5cJPsmQpt

In my talk, I discussed the extractivist aspects of biometrics and raised related ethical issues.

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Upcoming event on Digital Futures: https://t.co/CaRD0XtBdv

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Just out: “It Could Have Been Us”: media frames and the coverage of Ukrainian, Afghan and Syrian refugee crises, available open access at: https://t.co/MZIQo6VGfI. The article compares the UK media coverage of different refugee crises via media frame analysis approach.

[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

I collect ads like rich people collect cars.

The 10 most iconic ads I've found:

[Gavin Smith @gavin_jd_smith]

Delighted to have a co-authored chapter in this fab new open access collection on the rise of #facialrecognition. Well worth a copy being in every university library, this technology has profound implications for individuals, spaces & polities. https://t.co/dNFCwriotm

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Hear, hear!

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"You ask about the effect my work has on others. If I may speak ironically, that's a masculine question. Men always want to be influential. I see that somewhat as an onlooker. Do I see myself as influential? No. I want to understand."

— Hannah Arendt

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

My latest film "Borderscapes" is screening at Spotlight on Academics film festival in Thunder Bay and online on February 11th. The film addresses the impact of border technologies and policies on the everyday lives of migrants #migration #displacement #borders #VisualAnthropology

[ANSUR (The Anthropology of Surveillance Network) @ansurnetwork]

'Surveillance', an entry for the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology, now live! We hope this might provide a useful starting point for anthropologists and surveillance scholars as a reflection on the field so far @EASAinfo @culanth @SurvSoc_journal https://t.co/6ffkgEQ0dI

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

https://t.co/LO5jrCU6Lk

[Barbara Prainsack (@[email protected]) @BPrainsack]

Solidarity was a much spoken of concept during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what is solidarity? And how can we support and sustain acts of solidarity in and beyond moments of crises?

Check out our latest blog and paper from the @SolPan_Plus project:

https://t.co/CUpXvi1Dz6

[Barbara Prainsack (@[email protected]) @BPrainsack]

Just out: new article by @soee_sille & @jenserikmai: “The Ethics of Sharing: Privacy, Data, and Common Goods” https://t.co/GHLH76lU7l

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

"The Relational Turn"
Heute spreche ich an der Universität Bremen über das "Relational Turn" und das neue Buch "Person, Thing, Robot." @mitpress #robotrights #AIethics

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

@gavin_jd_smith @ourANU Congrats Gavin and bon courage! :)

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

@AIAS_dk Are they open for researchers outside Denmark too?

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Finally out: our article on the relationship between perceptions of risk and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccine passports:
https://t.co/CC4ZblBbXr

[Elizabeth M. Renieris @hackylawyER]

The EU's #AIAct introduces a ban on biometric surveillance (except for migrants).

Meanwhile, in France . . . https://t.co/kVhoeai9oj

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Just a normal day in Aarhus: while going for a little walk by the harbour before heading to the airport, I bump into a Danish royal (princess Mary) who is welcoming a Norwegian royal. The closest I ever got to a royal 😅

[Dr. Btihaj Ajana @MetricLife]

Excellent panel on virtual intimacy, automation and cyborg workers by Natasha Lushetich, Sarah Earnshaw, and Anne Küper👍@AIAS_dk