[Petit Fours #420] On algorithmic workflows, global governance, and members' perspectives

February 10, 2025

Hi, everyone! Everything feels like a lot right now, but, focusing on the good, here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 Riyaj Shaikh’s dissertation The Work...

[Petit Fours #419] On responsibility, illegitimate practice, and retiring

February 3, 2025

Hi, everyone! With an inkling of winter weather in the air, it’s time to get another week started. Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 Alex Taylor will...

[Petit Fours #418] On economics, social media, and returned purchases

January 27, 2025

Hi, all! Without further ado, here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 The Microsoft Research Ideas podcast has some really interesting episodes, such as this...

[Petit Fours #417] On algorithmic workflows, public autonomous systems, and Nokia Design Archive

January 20, 2025

Hi, all! Here’s what I want to share with you today: #1 In #ProudAdvisor news, Riyaj Shaikh will defend his dissertation The Work Practice of Platform-...

[Petit Fours #416] On human–robot interaction, stepping stones, and impossible creatures

January 13, 2025

Hi, all! Without further ado, from the midst of CSCW reviewing, DIS writing, and other back-to-work operations that have left me little time for academic...

[Petit Fours #415] On control, WhatsApp, and research as a leisure activity

January 6, 2025

Happy new year! With backpacks unpacked after a refreshingly social holiday, here’s what I’ve got for you: #1 Control theory is not my domain at all but I...

[Petit Fours #414] On intimate technology, Question Zero, and things that go

December 16, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here comes the final Petit Fours of 2024: #1 Ending the year on a high note, I’m very happy to share a pre-print of our forthcoming paper...

[Petit Fours #413] On intimate surveillance, academic citizenship, and language

December 9, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here are this week’s recommendations: #1 Whether you have an interest in surveillance technology or not, How to Watch a Baby, a comic by...

[Petit Fours #412] On sleep, social media, and living in the broken world

December 2, 2024

Hi, all! We’ve made it to December – just a few weeks now until the holidays. Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 My longing for community is...

[Petit Fours #411] On orders from an algorithm, AI therapists, and Reproduction

November 25, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you this week: #1 Today, I’m in Aarhus, Denmark, on the final work trip of the year. I’m here to serve on the...

[Petit Fours #410] On license to critique, safeguards, and visible mending

November 18, 2024

Hi, all! Without further ado, here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 Last week at CSCW, I got to present right after David Widder (whose work our paper draws...

[Petit Fours #409] On CSCW 2024, ethical challenges, and the vandola

November 11, 2024

Greetings from Costa Rica! After our workshop on the Work of AI and some local adventures, today it’s time to switch into full conference mode: #1 Check out...

[Petit Fours #408] On care, relational labor, and Nordic perspectives

November 4, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you this week, as I’m preparing for travel to CSCW 2024: #1 We have a small Exhibit X piece out in the Interactions...

[Petit Fours #407] On outside options, synthetic users, and images of AI

October 28, 2024

Hi, all! Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 In exciting news, the first, Master’s level pilot course in our CIVIS microprogramme Equitable and Just...

[Petit Fours #406] On classroom rules, AI Cleanup, and the dark side of social media

October 21, 2024

Hi, all! Here’s what I’ve got for you today, as I launch into a somewhat overly full week of teaching and reviewing: #1 Generative AI is causing a big mess...

[Petit Fours #405] On urban interaction, luck, and publication venues

October 14, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you today, from amidst amazing autumn colors and shortening days: #1 At the end of this month, Wendy Ju will be giving...

[Petit Fours #404] On care robots, platforms, and a ghost in the throat

October 7, 2024

Hi, all! Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 In exciting news, CSCW 2025 is now confirmed to take place in Bergen, Norway. This is the first time ever the...

[Petit Fours #403] On AI in the street, design ethics at work, and permission to play

September 30, 2024

Hi, everyone! Launching into a week of fully autumnal weather and a flurry of todos, here’s what I’ve got for you: #1 Sharon Lindberg will be defending her...

[Petit Fours #402] On art, automation, and the adoption of generative AI

September 23, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you this week: #1 New Media and Society recently published a special issue on Automating Communication in the Digital...

[Petit Fours #401] On pleasing the algorithm, collaborating with bots, and a final CSCW workshop call

September 16, 2024

Hi, everyone! Without further ado, here’s what I’ve on my mind this week: #1 The final deadline for expressions of interest to our CSCW workshop The Work of...

[Petit Fours #400] On analog privilege, data work, and Pippi Longstocking

September 9, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’d like to share with you in this 400th(!!) edition of Petit Fours: #1 Maroussia Lévesque’s piece The Future is Analog (If You Can...

[Petit Fours #399] On algorithmic management in minor key, job automation, and the Nordic Gender Fund

September 2, 2024

Hi, folks! As the season is changing and the semester is starting, here’s what I’ve got for you: #1 In reading about algorithmic management, I’m always on...

[Petit Fours #398] On synthetic data, food delivery, and worker data collectives

August 26, 2024

Hi, everyone! Without further ado, here’s what I’ve got for you this week: #1 Synthetic data is mind-boggling stuff: ‘Intersectional hallucinations’: why AI...

[Petit Fours #397] On labor-intensive workplaces, sustainability, and museums

August 19, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 Folks interested in worker-centered research and design, check out Amazon Z to A: Speculative Design to...

[Petit Fours #396] On the work of AI, time banking, and the forgotten protocol

August 12, 2024

Hi, all! Here’s what I’d like to share with you today, as I begin my return to work after the summer break: #1 We are organising a one-day workshop at CSCW...

[Petit Fours #395] On fleeting alliances, mechanical sympathy, and feminist tech

June 24, 2024

Hi, everyone! Before this newsletter goes on summer break until mid-August, there are a few more things I want to share: #1 Our new journal article Fleeting...

[Petit Fours #394] On slop, care platforms, and designing movement

June 17, 2024

Hi, everyone, and happy midsummer week! Here’s what I’d like to share with you: #1 Likely a little late to the game, I’ve learned a new word – slop – that I...

[Petit Fours #393] On rethinking psychology, data visualization, and human–robot interaction

June 10, 2024

Hi, all! Without further ado, here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 For those of you social psychologically inclined, this free webinar on June 18 should be...

[Petit Fours #392] On parenthood, disability, and sustainable travel stories

June 3, 2024

Hi, everyone! Over the past week, most of my reading has been in the from of reviewing NordiCHI manuscripts. While I am not allowed to say anything about...

[Petit Fours #391] On AI, qualitative research, and public trust

May 27, 2024

Hi, all! Inspired by last week’s discussions with Mary L. Gray, Alex Taylor, and my local colleagues, here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 The Intersection...

[Petit Fours #390] On technology-mediated marketplaces, algorithmic management of work and health, and participation

May 20, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 There are lots of papers worth reading in the CHI Proceedings, but one I particularly want to highlight...

[Petit Fours #389] On CHI 2024 proceedings, the monstrous costs of AI, and Exit to Community Stories

May 13, 2024

Hi, all! This week, there’s no lack of fresh-off-the-press things to read: #1 CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing...

[Petit Fours #388] On frugal collaboration, models on top of models, and failed platform co-ops

May 6, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you today: #1 I’m happy and proud to share that Fleeting Alliances and Frugal Collaboration in Piecework: A Video-...

[Petit Fours #387] On ethical responsibility, curiosity, and surviving the AI summer

April 29, 2024

Hi, all! As the cherry tree outside our window is about to bloom, here’s what I’ve got for you: #1 Now on my ‘want-to-read’ list: Keywords of the Datafied...

[Petit Fours #386] On problematisation, planned obsolescence, and nyttosvenska

April 22, 2024

Hi, everyone! As I’m digesting last week’s avalanche of paper reviews from DIS and CSCW (the good, the bad, and the ugly…), here’s what I’ve got for you: #1...

[Petit Fours #385] On Halfway to the Future, BusinessTown, and Talking about Machines

April 15, 2024

Hi, all! While the weather calls for a hot cup of chai, here's what I'd like to share with you: #1 Recently, I've been reading Julian E. Orr's book Talking...

[Petit Fours #384] On worker data science, aligning interests, and taking a break

April 8, 2024

Hi, everyone! Without further ado, here's what I've got for you today: #1 Digital worker inquiry and the critical potential of participatory worker data...

[Petit Fours #383] On user reviews of the first digital contraceptive, believable space, and crushing the interface

April 1, 2024

Hi, all! After a few glorious days offline, here's what I've got for you: #1 Natural Cycles has written a short summary about my colleagues' excellent...

[Petit Fours 382] On software automation, human labor, and figuring out why one is writing

March 25, 2024

Hi, all! It's the final week of Q1/2024 (that went fast!) and here's what I want to share with you: #1 Amidst the ongoing hype, here's a timely question:...

[Petit Fours 381] On care-ful data studies, public values, and the interactive nature of accessibility

March 18, 2024

Sunny greetings from Stockholm! Here's what I've got for you today: #1 Care-ful data studies: or, what do we see, when we look at datafied societies through...

[Petit Fours 380] On bodywork, trust, and food delivery workers as infrastructure

March 11, 2024

Hi, all! This week, along with other things, I'm happy to announce two new research articles that will come out at CHI 2024 (pre-prints will go up soon). #1...

[Petit Fours 379] On convivencia, frontiers, and Freedom

March 4, 2024

Hi, all! Without further ado, here's what I'd like to share with you this week: #1 Here's a thoughtful, thorough interview about how to get work done in "a...

[Petit Fours 378] On becoming more capable, documenting research with video, and Wage Against the Machine

February 26, 2024

Hi, everyone! Here's what I've got for you this week: #1 Check out our new, short video about the Digital Futures Drone Arena which will give a feel of the...

[Petit Fours 377] On sustainable HCI, troubling automated practices, and working as a dispatcher

February 19, 2024

Hello, world! New week, new platform, same old Petit Fours. Here's what I've got for you today: #1 Check out the Call for Abstracts to the Revaluing...