Reality Engineering Livestream

Today, March 6th, 17:00-18:00 GMT

Join us for a conversation about proliferating efforts to create artificial societies. How artificial are the “societies” we live in today? To what extent is the state and tech industry to blame for the embrace of “social engineering”? What does the “techlash” have to do with it? And how is it that despite widespread criticism of Big Tech, we continue to see an increasing intervention of these companies in our everyday realities?

Tune in live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t2T07d78

Part of the Artificial Societies symposium: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/artificial-societies/

Curating Data Cultures

This project explores the benefits of openness for qualitative and mixed-methods research, challenging the dominance of quantitative models in open data practices. It examines how data curation, infrastructures, and stewardship can support open inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. By inviting researchers at Warwick to contribute their datasets, the project takes a case-based approach to develop tailored strategies for open, interpretative research.

Artificial Societies

Friday 7th March 2025, 9:30-17:30, Oculus Building (OC0.04), University of Warwick

Social life is increasingly being the object of interventions from engineering and economics. Platforms, AI and Big Tech are driving a growing engineering of the social, often without transparency and accountability. This event encourages interdisciplinary dialogue to problematise our present, explore alternatives, and address societal concerns amid growing public backlash against Big Tech.

Keynote Speakers: Noortje Marres and Mona Sloane

This event is co-organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies with the Edinburgh Futures Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Inquiry and the International Sociological Association’s Working Group 10 on Digital Sociology.