Sociotechs
Episodes
Big Tech's Power and Regulatory Change: A Political Philosophy Perspective
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The power associated to Big Tech, often equated to the ‘Big Five’ (Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft), is posing new problems at the soci...
Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Digital identity, meaning the conversion of human identities into digital data, is often hailed as a route to benefits from the public and private sec...
VAR and the Illusion of Objectivity: Technology’s Struggle with Equivocal Realities
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The recent Olympic Games and European Football Championship have highlighted once again the importance, and controversiality, of technologies associ...
Cyber Conflict and Data Violence in Gaza
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ongoing war on Gaza, one of the deadliest military assaults in history, has been accompanied by extreme applications of digital technologies to wa...
Techno-Borderland: How Security Technologies Shape Border Management
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The foundational elements of EU migration policies and security technologies started to take a turn in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in ...
Health Data Governance: Between Handling and Handing Data
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Health data governance should ensure protection for individuals' health data against violations, while enabling the smooth functioning of healthc...
Beyond Digital Deception: Bots, Social Media and Generative AI
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The narrative of digital deception pervades the discourse on generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening important questions on the validity and ...
Humanitarian Tech Unveiled: From Principles to Corporate Capture
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humanitarian aid has undergone significant transformations in recent years, driven in part by the increasing integration of technology and the growing...
Unraveling Corporate Capture in SDGs: AI for Social Good in Africa
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The notion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for social good is being actively pushed as a route to involve private tech vendors in the pursuit of targe...
In the Grip of Automation: Navigating the Skill Erosion Dilemma
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when machines undertake practices previously delegated to human expertise, questions of skill erosion become prominent. Our guests Esko P...
Data Curation: Charting a Path to Reusable Data
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data reuse is crucial to making existing datasets accessible across users, systems and organisations. As we discuss today with Elena Parmiggiani, many...
Behind the Label: Data Labeling Labours for AI
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss data labeling, the intensive work behind the scenes of AI, with Srravya Chandhiramowuli. Through Srravya's expertise, w...
Decoding Data's Essence: An Ontological View
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Aleksi Aaltonen to discuss his focus on data as semantic material and its implications for understanding technology ...
Border Externalization and Surveillance: Unraveling EU's Techno Borders
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We delve into the world of border securitization and specifically, the involvement of AI in the EU's border externalization strategy. Our guest An...
Introduction: Hello, World!
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, Welcome to the inaugural episode of "Sociotechs," we are Silvia and Tejas, the hosts of this brand-new podcast. As researchers with div...