Digital Commons and Socioenvironmental Data

This daylong event shares the work of scholars working at the intersection of open science and STS on socioenvironmental data. 

If you wish to attend online, please register here. 

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Situating the Archival Commons

• “Media Mining Memory: Digital Infrastructure, Environmental Memory, and the Decolonization of Extractive Histories in Nigeria” Uzoamaka Nwachukwu (Max Planck Institute)
• “Commoning and computation in environmental sociology: Advancing a historical perspective” Jonathan Tollefson (U. of Chicago)
• “Making Meaning of Vocational Pathways using Open Storytelling: Braid as Method and Medium” Raymar Hampshire (U. of Michigan)

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break & Walk

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Digitizing the Commons

• “Advancing geospatial data infrastructure in Dataverse via metadata automation, interactive tools and LLM case study“ Ana Trisovic (MIT) 
• “Green Onion: Exploring the Energy Cost and Carbon Footprint of the Tor Network” Rohit Nagubandi (UC Santa Cruz)
• “Mixing natural science and socioenvironmental data from the AmazonFACE program: A dashboard for exploring interdisciplinary possibilities of data about the Brazilian Amazon Forest“ Felipe Mammoli (UNICAMP)

2:30-2:45 PM: Break

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Emergent Environmental Data through Ethnography

• “Open hardware and the commons in wildlife conservation“ Brianna Johns (Monash University)
• “Documenting the legacies of lignite in Lusatia through digital cultural heritage: a fractured political landscape” Cynthia Brown (Max Planck Institute)
• “Situating Openness in Latin America: Agroecology, Open Science, and Grassroots Technology in Mendoza, Argentina“ Keren Reichler (Rice University)