Our scoping review is now available in open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… Helena Machado Susana Silva

Sometimes life can be great! But hard work has always had good results! My first single-authored paper from my PhD research is out now in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal! 🥹 In open access, it critically analyses the frames of the PJ members in Portugal regarding Big Data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Today at #Eurocrim2023

Really happy to have presented my PhD research at #Eurocrim2023 today in a full room 😃 shared with other amazing presentations 🤩!! It was great share insights from Portugal about the negotiation of police discretionary power in the era of Big Data. Many thanks!

New article out on Big Data Policing. We draw three conclusions: - Big data in the context of predicting policing are hardly used; - It concerns forms of very weak AI; - Big data and algorithms lead to a "coding elite". You can read it #openaccess here: academic.oup.com/policing/artic…

Looking forward to talking about societal challenges and Artificial Intelligence tomorrow 15:30. Registration link here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Just out our scoping review examining the research landscape about publics’s views on the ethical challenges of AI! 1/2 Susana Silva Laura Neiva link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Only 3 days left! Excited to share insights from my PhD research at the EUROPOL Workshop. Grateful for the invitation! 😊 Feel free to join us if you're available!

Excited to be at #ESAPorto24 as both a volunteer and a paper presenter! I've been volunteering, and tomorrow at 2:30 PM, I'll present "The Co-Production of the Future of Big Data in Law Enforcement Through Imaginaries and Narratives" at LC.2.R1. #ESA2024 European Sociological Association

AIDA Seminar October 11, at 11:00 AM. Online format. Open access. Access link: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/99761260302?… Organized by: AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network) & ICS (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal).

Life update: PhDone! 🎊 Officially Dr. Laura Neiva 👩‍🎓 Thanks to Dr. Diana Miranda Susana Durão Rafaela Granja Manuela Ivone Cunha for such an insightful discussion, to Helena Machado for her amazing supervision and to everyone who made this possible 🫶✨ Thrilled about the future!

📅De 4 a 6 de junho Escola E- Monitoring : “Crime e Tecnologia: Presentes Controversos, Futuros (Im)prováveis. Mais info.👉cecs.uminho.pt/escola-e-monit… #CECS #CECSinvestigação #produzirconhecimento #construircomunidade

A month ago I discussed Big Data in policing at the E-Monitoring Project School. Thanks for the invite and the great questions! #bigdatapolicing

My latest open access article, “Among the (Many) Meanings of Big Data: History, Surveillance, Control, and Criminalisation”, is now available in #RLEC, published by CECS - UMinho : rlec.pt/index.php/rlec… #BigData #SurveillanceStudies #DataJustice #Criminalization #OpenAccess

Big Data: innovation or surveillance? In my latest commentary (PT) for communitas, I reflect on the challenges, dilemmas & impacts of #BigData in #policing, and how it may shape the future of #justice and #surveillance: communitas.pt/ideia/big-data…

Yesterday at the Military University Institute, speaking at the seminar "Internal Security and Artificial Intelligence", I shared critical reflections on Big Data in policing, exploring both innovation and surveillance. #AI #Policing #Surveillance #BigData

Almost time to go live with my talk: "Contested expectations – #BigData, #ethics, and the #future of #policing and #criminalinvestigation." 2PM Brasília | 6PM Portugal Grateful to AICLP and the Experimental and Public Security Research Group for the kind invitation!

Just out! Crime e tecnologia, edited by Rafaela Granja includes my chapter “Expectations about Big Data in Portuguese policing.” A reflection on how technologies become powerful crime-fighting symbols and why we often accept their promises uncritically. repositorium.uminho.pt/entities/publi…