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Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms? This is a key question Minna Ruckenstein seeks to answer in her new book,Ìý.ÌýMinna RuckensteinÌýis Professor in Emerging Technologies in Society at the University of Helsinki.

Is it possible to combine the use of technology with a feminist ethics of care? Ingvil Hellstrand's work in the projectÌý aims to find out.

Are fear and anxiety making us long not just for a technological solution but for a technological saviour? That's one of Jill Walker Rettberg's arguments in her new book, .ÌýJill Walker RettbergÌýis Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.

This event offers a 20 minute presentation by each speaker followed by a conversation. It is jointly organised by the and the ERC project .

About the speakers

Minna RuckensteinÌýis a . She directs that studies processes of digitalization/datafication by highlighting emotional, social, political and economic aspects of current and emerging data practices. The disciplinary underpinnings of the work range from anthropology of technology, science and technology studies and communication to consumer economics.

Ingvil Hellstrand is an Associate Professor at the Department of Caring and Ethics at the University of Stavanger. Her research is inÌýgender diversity, welfare and caring sciences research and artificial intelligence and science fiction.ÌýHellstrand recently .Ìý

Jill Walker Rettberg is Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, and Professor of Digital Culture. She also leads the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life:ÌýPlayful Interactions with Visual Technologies inÌýDigital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media.ÌýHer latest book is Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World, out on Polity Press in September 2023. Her previous books include Seeing Ourselves Through Technology and Blogging.Ìý

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