‘It is a soft-toy. It helps you to fall asleep. There can’t be a computer in it!’ Reflecting on the research of Pekka Mertala

Last week the Deakin node of the Australian Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child welcomed Dr Pekka Mertala from … More

Datafying the family home: Notes on Barassi’s ‘Child Data Citizen’

In her book ‘Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies are Profiling Us from Before Birth’ (2021), Veronica Barassi provides a … More

Survey for phase 1: Mapping Data in the Home

Launching the ‘Mapping Data in the Home’ project

We are very pleased to be launching phase 1 of the ‘Mapping Data in the Home’ project! This project will investigate … More

Wearables as affective materialisations of data: Notes on Lindner’s Molecular Politics

Having recently read Peter Lindner’s (2020) article Molecular Politics, Wearables, and the Aretaic Shift in Biopolitical Governance, I was struck by the … More

Researching invisible data – Notes on Neumayer, Rossi & Struthers (2021)

After a bit of a break over the Australian summer and then a busy start to 2021, I have finally … More

What does imagination have to do with materialising data?

While it might seem unusual to be writing about imagination and imaginaries as part of this project, there are a … More

Metaphors of data – it’s time to redefine how we talk about data

Metaphors are a short-hand way of understanding complex ideas and concepts; they involve experiencing one thing in terms of another. … More

(Re-)structuring Time Through Data Representations

Representations of data are always retrospective. Even if occurring in supposed ‘real time,’ real time occurred some time in the … More