2020
“Taking Data Into Account.” [Presenter and open panel organizer] Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting. August 18-21. Prague, Czech Republic. [Virtual meeting due to Covid-19]
“Enduring Inequalities in the Digital City.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 8-11. San Francisco, CA. [Cancelled due to Covid-19]
“Chasing Smartness: Researching the City through Technological Institutions.” International Communication Association Annual Meeting. May 21-25. [Virtual meeting due to Covid-19]
2019
“Get Smart: How Cities Become Data-Driven.” UMass Amherst Four @Four Speaker Series, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, December 11, Amherst. [Link]
“Smartness as Deliberate Ignorance.” and “Tweeting Economics: Co-Constructing Expertise on Social Media.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 10-13. New York City, NY.
“Becoming Data-Driven: The Practice of Prediction in Local Governments,” Scraping the Demos: Political Epistemologies of Big Data, Weizenbaum Institute-Quantification and Social Regulation. July 8-9. Berlin, Germany. [Link]
“Becoming Data-Driven: Dashboards and Data Analytics in City Hall.” Algorithms on the Shop Floor: Data-Driven Technologies in Organizational Context Academic Workshop, Data & Society. June 14. New York City, NY. [Link]
“(Dis)Connecting the Smart City.” and “De-Provincializing Soft Power: A Comparative-Critical History, 1990-2015.” International Communication Association Annual Meeting. May 24-28. Washington, DC.
2018
“The City as Data Machine.” The Herrenhausen Conference on Transparency and Society: Between Promise and Peril.” June 12-14, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany.
“Civic Entrepreneurialism in the Age of Smart Cities.” International Communication Association Annual Meeting. May 26-30, Prague, Czech Republic.
“Circulating (Il)Liberalism on the Internet.” Global Perspectives on Populism and the Media, International Communication Association Pre-Conference. May 23-24, Budapest, Hungary.
2017
“The Rise of Civic Entrepreneurialism.” The Information Society Project Lunch Speaker Series, Yale Law School. September 14, New Haven, Connecticut. [Invited talk]
“Civicness in the Smart City: Solutions in Search of Problems.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting. August 30-September 2, Boston, Massachusetts. [Link]
“The City as Data Machine.” Intelligent Communities Roundtable. Social Science Research Council. June 16, New York City. [Invited talk]
“Google Fiber: We Will Build it If They Come” and “Civicness in the Smart City: Solutions in Search of Problems.” International Communication Association Annual Meeting. May 25-29, San Diego, California.
2016
“Solutions in Search of Problems: Inventing the Smart City.” midweSTS Graduate Workshop. September 16-17, Chicago, Illinois.
“Smart Cities and Blockchains: New Techno-Utopian Dreams or Nightmares.” The Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Conference XI, July 22-24, New York City. [Link]
“How Urban Innovators Make Smart Cities.” Global Cities, Local Knowledge: The Power of Networks, Fudan University. June 6-7, Shanghai, China. [Invited talk]
2015
“Urban Experiments in the Gigabit City.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting. November 11-14, Denver, Colorado.
“Growth and Governance in the Gigabit City.” Experimenting with Technologies Conference. August 20-22, Delft, Netherlands.