শুভ নববর্ষ / Shubho Noboborsho / Happy (Bangali) New Year!

Eid Mubarak!

Salwa's talk is titled 'Data-Driven (In)Justice: Muslim Women in South Asia.' Mrinalini's talk is titled 'Digitizing Caste: Criminal Databases and Policing in India.' Pratik's talk is titled 'What it Means to be Nepali: How Digital Governance has Transformed Citizenship Practices

Missed the entire Pokemon Europe International Championships (EUIC) streamed during the weekend. So much to catch-up on now.

The spring conference at The Information Society Project is a special tradition, and I’m honored to have had the opportunity to organize it this year! Thanks so much to our wonderful participants. Hope you enjoyed the conference as much as we did!

Can’t wait to present my research and discuss ideas with this fabulous group soon!

Thank you to Nicole Curato, Renee DiResta, Jack Balkin, and Professor Jason Stanley for a wonderful opening panel at the “Propaganda and Emerging Technologies” conference!

Starts tomorrow!!! See you soon!

SPEAKERS — Women in Tech Policy Conference 2024! The amazing ⁦Christabel⁩ and other great speakers will be there! womenintechpolicy.com/speakers

Join us!

📺 This weekend's Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference will be livestreamed! Join us for two days of discussions on hate speech, misinformation, manipulation, electoral influence + more

📅 April 5 - 6, 2024

🔗 Agenda and stream links: law.yale.edu/isp/events/pro…

(Having read a preview!) This is a groundbreaking article for the field: a history of 'infirmity,' an important keyword to consider alongside 'disability,' and one the British census defined in very different terms for the metropole vs. the colonies.

Excited to present my work at the Cultures of Datafication In & Across South Asia workshop in the University of Pennsylvania soon! I look forward to learning from the participants of the workshop and meeting up with friends in Philly! Food recommendations, please!

In our recently accepted #FAccT paper on data annotation practices in the Majority World, we explore bias, knowledge colonization, & context collapse in a faith-based communal violence dataset. Loved working with Abdullah Safir, Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Ruhul Amin, & others. More soon!

📢 Join us next week in New Haven for the Propaganda and Emerging Technologies conference!

📅 April 5 - 6, 2024

✏️ Agenda + registration: law.yale.edu/isp/events/pro…

My apartment building hosted a murder mystery party yesterday where everyone was in character and had to figure out ‘whodunit.’ I was incredibly off the mark but the subplots in my head could make this an entire TV series #OverThinking