Personal Website of Dr Andrew Dwyer
It is a rather odd time to be announcing that I have secured a new research fellowship when I know many exceptional colleagues who are currently struggling to find employment in higher education. This is something that has been weighing Continue Reading …
Link to blog here: https://www.digitalsocieties.co.uk/blog/algorithms-dont-make-desicions I’ve written a short(ish) blog for the Digital Societies research at the University of Bristol. This is my first attempt to publicly discuss some of my thoughts on the discussion of algorithms and decision in Continue Reading …
A couple of years ago, I was asked to write about co-operative visions of technology. This never led to a publication due to a variety of different reasons. However, I did write a fairly decent draft of a short, ‘popular’ Continue Reading …
So, I thought I would do a quick blog post, just as I have reached a block in writing and thought this would help to get me back into the mood. A couple of years ago now(!), I did some Continue Reading …
Last week, I was introduced to a conversation by Pip Thornton (@Pip__T) that was initiated by David Gunkel on Twitter, where he was taking a suggestion from Noel Sharkey on whether robots should be classified as viruses (see the tweet Continue Reading …
Wearable tech, the ability to share your fitness stats, suggest routes, follow them, and so on have been a growing feature of (certain) everyday lifestyles. This ability to share how the body moves, performs, and expresses itself gives many people Continue Reading …
For anyone who has been following my twitter will realise I have been writing about malware as objects. This seems like a fundamentally weird and albeit useless thing to do (and one I have wondered myself). Yet thinking of objects Continue Reading …
Unfortunately, Evernote cannot be used for any personal or confidential information it seems if you’re from the EU. As I was wading through the required confidentiality and data protection required for my DPhil fieldwork, I had to really dig around Continue Reading …