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Thrilled to announce the second of our 2024 Early-Career Researcher Prize winners! 🎉 Congratulations to @sofie_hen for her outstanding article: "Humanitarian Hacking", examining how refugee aid meets digital capitalism.
Free to read for the next year! academic.oup.com/jrs/article…
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What is the problem with 'Tech for Good'? What should tech companies like Google and meta do instead of commodifying compassion? Read this short commentary by me @afejerskov to find out. @CBDScbs @diisdk @AfricaBusPol @MahaRafiAtal @sofie_hen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Conjuring innovation🪄
Tech pilots aren’t just designed to help people. Regardless of what they achieve, they are valuable products for aid industry actors to promote: medium.com/caribou-digital/c…
^This blog summarises my new research on tech pilots in aid: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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🗣️Will donation apps revolutionize aid?
The short answer is NO‼️ The long answer is found in @BrandAid_World and my article in the @IAJournal_CH Special Section 'The crisis in the palm of our hand' - just in time to be added to your summer reading list☀️
More info below⬇️
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And then there was the superhero version where unaccountable elites sell business solutions to 'save' Congo with Starbucks coffee, militia-proof chocolate bars, and of course, Tom's hideous shoes lisaannrichey.wixsite.com/ba…
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Some of you @SASE_Meeting #SASE2024 +know us @CocoResearch have seen how there are some remarkable things going on in the selling of 'helping' in late capitalism. 1st was the GOAT of 'the red pill makes you stronger...just say yes' upress.umn.edu/9780816665464…
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Humanitære hackathons har ikke ført til udvikling af brugbar teknologi. Men de har fodret en fortælling om tech-virksomheder, som en anden mindre profitorienteret slags virksomhed end de klassiske kapitalistiske virksomheder. @sofie_hen diis.dk/publikationer/tech-v…
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Because another border is possible: "Reimagining the Migration Protection System." A @HopeBorder @TempleLaw publication by @AhlamChemlali @nepantlamb @m_balaguera @samloce12 @zachgoodwin19 @BlancaNavGar Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Wanda Quintanilla &Grace Kindeke.
hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e0…
Har skrevet om hackatons og tech-giganternes indtog på det humanitære marked i Jyllands-Posten idag: jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kro…
Sofie Elbæk Henriksen retweeted
Check out this new study by Henriksen (@CBScph) examining how alignment between humanitarian and business interests is pursued and constructed in refugee-focused cross-sector #partnerships. #refugeecrisis. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/000765032311…
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This is one of my new publications of which I am most proud, free downloads here-should they run out you are always welcome to DM me. 🙏 @ABudabin @MFOlwig @MahaRafiAtal @sofie_hen @AfricaBusPol Monica Krause, Peter Leys, Mariano Palomino+ Liliano Marcelo tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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A mystery, truly
What is humanitarian hacking and who does it actually help? I went to two refugee hackathons to find out!
Read more in my new @JRefugeeStudies article on refugees, #hackathons and digital capitalism: academic.oup.com/jrs/advance…
@diisdk @CBDScbs #TechForGood
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My new publication "Treading Water in Transit" is out in @scmrjems! Exploring Ivorian migrant women's navigation in urban Tunis, I challenge conventional notions of 'transit.'
tandfonline.com/eprint/GBIER…
Can't access it due to the paywall? Drop me your email, and I'll gladly share!
Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD on tech companies as humanitarian actors 🥳 Thanks so much to the committee @PollyWilkins @PublicAnthropol and @BondoHansen for your thoughtful and hard questions 🤓 @BrandAid_World @sineplambech @diisdk @CBScph
Thank you friends, family and colleagues for support ❤️ @AhlamChemlali @Dr_CvG @Nauja_Kleist @IVammen @AfricaBusPol @AmandaHaarman @astoeb
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4 days left to propose a paper for #EASA2024 and to join our panel in Barcelona on contemporary capitalism, datafication and inequality where we'll also adress challenges of doing black box ethnography with our discussant @MoisesKopper
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📢We are finishing off our @diisdk seminar series on #dataextractivism next week with the webinar "The Costs of Connection in the Age of Big Data and AI". Join us to hear @couldrynick & @UlisesAliMejias on Data Colonialism, Tuesday, Dec. 5. Sign up here: diis.dk/en/event/the-costs-o…
Happy and very honoured to receive the 2023 Fonnesbech PhD Prize 🥳 I look forward to continuing my research @CBDScbs, @CBScph and @diisdk with great colleagues!
Now it is OFFICIAL that our @CocoResearch @CBDScbs PhD colleague @sofie_hen has won @CBScph top PhD Researcher Fonnesbech Prize this year! I'm 1 of her proud supervisors⭐️ w/@sineplambech @diisdk cbsshare.cbs.dk/nyheder/topn…