Benjamin Lipp

Assistant Professor @DTUtweet | Studying Interfaces in a Digitally Decentred World | #robotics #digitalhealth #chronicpain #cocreation | Banner by @urbandebris

[Roser Pujadas @RoserPujadas1]

Very happy to share our new publication with my brilliant colleagues @BenjaminLipp , @PaulaHelm12 and @karafillidis
"De-centring the interface. Towards the integrated study of interfacial relations" in Information, Communication & Society
https://t.co/ZqE5HOvWn2

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@Des_Fitzgerald So sorry! 😅

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

What happens when #neuroscience enters #society? Our keynote speaker @PickersgillM will explore the "The Ambivalent Life of the #Brain in the 21st Century” at Medical Museion on 27 June, 3 pm. Register for the event here: https://t.co/bwoSh1aiZH (Deadline: 24 June)

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

Interested in #neuroscience and #society? Then come to @medicalmuseion on 27 June, where @PickersgillM will #talk about "The Ambivalent Life of the #Brain in the 21st Century”. Followed by Q&A with @lewhiteley and reception. Register: https://t.co/bwoSh1aiZH

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

Interested in robots 🤖  and what it means to live 🥳  and work 💪  among them? Find out Thursday at the ICC Theatre's Mind Games. I'm presenting my research on robotics, followed by
a 💯improvised comedy from the talented MindGames Improv team. Tickets: https://t.co/H3jMFzticN

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

📣 New paper out 📣 A chapter co-written with Henning Mayer just got published in the @OxUniPress Handbook of the Sociology of #MachineLearning. We show the potential of a #sociology of #interfaces to study contemporary human-machine interaction. https://t.co/VD23uuoIsF

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

🎙New commentary: ‘Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device’ by Paula Helm (@PaulaHelm12), Benjamin Lipp (@BenjaminLipp), and Roser Pujadas (@RoserPujadas1).
#syntheticdata #AI #privacy #platformeconomy
Read here: https://t.co/o36K6PRU29

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

📣 New Publication @BigDataSoc on synthetic data: how it is being employed as a limited technical fix to circumvent complex ethico-political problems related to #AI #bias #privacy #platformpower with my fantastic colleagues ✨ @PaulaHelm12 & @RoserPujadas1 https://t.co/n1StrAxcVb

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

Dear #sts #infrastructure #digitalhealth #caretechnology #orgstudies people: Does anyone know good work on logistics and automation in hospitals? e.g. AGVs, automated laboratories, pharmacy dispensers #ststwitter #soctwitter

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News Agreed. The only arena I am clinging on to is teaching (without having concrete evidence about its effectiveness)

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News Maybe that's a fair judgement for a politically inflated claim in general. Can we produce evidence that ANY engaged / critical / reflective / ... type of STS scholarship has produced ANY effects in the ways you are describing?

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News Those are not mutually exclusive. I'd say imagination is an important lever for that power, don't you think?

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News This is of course not an endorsement of those futures but to say that I find your argument that future-making cannot be effective in bringing about change implausible.

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News Social movements are not the only mode of change. But taken out of that context, isn't the current prominence and success of techno-centric future-making in tech and governance a case in point that future-making is effective in bringing about change?

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News 2nd example: I’m from Germany. We have the issue that the majority of ppl want a transition toward a ‚green future’ but there is a lack of a project, a clear vision by the government. So having that an imagined future (even if it turns out wrong) would be great for change now

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News Of course the point is not the future but the present (cf soc of futures) but why should more inclusive / progressive etc future making not be a resource for positive change?

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News Two examples: I’m using sci-fi for teaching engineers (caught!) not to predict but to intervene into problematic imaginations of the future. I see the danger of making students too confident about it but it can still be eye opening for them irt the present

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

📣 Publication alert 📣 Opinion piece on #digitalhealth and #chronicpain out in @Nature! Pain tech is captured by digital alternatives but for #access to #integrative pain management we need tech that connects and foster collaboration!
https://t.co/XVFqqVGZzb

[Benjamin Lipp @BenjaminLipp]

@STS_News But isn't that the point about any form of imagination? (sci-fi or not) Not prediction or certainty but anticipation and contingency of futures?