[Air-L] Conference "DATA, SECURITY, VALUES: Vocations and Visions of Data Analysis" in Oslo

[Mareile Kaufmann]

Dear all, 
please be invited to the conference

"DATA, SECURITY, VALUES: Vocations and Visions of Data Analysis"
10 - 11 December 2018, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Hausmanns gate 3
https://www.prio.org/Events/Event/?x=8674

Data analysis can have many vocations and visions. Coding, programming and algorithmically interpreting data is informed by the concepts, ideas, values and affordances of the technologies and people that engage with data. Even if the word data means "given", information becomes socially and politically imbued as soon as it is selected and categorized to make it available for analysis. Such insights are no longer only subject of academic critique, but the normativity of data analysis has by now become integrated into public discourses. In fact, the value of data has created a new market for moral entrepreneurs, who re-frame data analysis as a tool for moral engineering and security politics. At this conference we explore how values, ideas and concepts are not only necessarily embedded in data analysis, but also in what way they are productive and co-create society. We discuss the relationship between data analysis, ideas and values by looking at the workings of digital security technologies, data security policies or the security politics of data.

Roundtable Discussion: Dilemma Dialogue on the Everyday Use of Data in Security Authorities
with representatives from The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), Ministry of Justice, The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) and the Police Security Services (PST)

Key Notes
Miguel Sicart, Associate Professor, IT University Copenhagen
Playing Data: Understanding the Ludic in the Information Age

Katja de Vries, Postdoctoral Researcher, IT University Copenhagen
The Coexistence of Humans and Algorithmic Machines

Susanne Krasmann, Professor, Hamburg University 
The Secret of Algorithms: On Transparency, Truth and the Political

Breakfast and Lunch will be served. 

Please register your attendance at: 
https://www.prio.org/Events/Event/?x=8674