Speaker Bio
Sandy Gould is a member of the Human-Centred Computing group in Cardiff University's School of Computational and Mathematical Sciences, https://www.sjjg.uk/.
Frames, data and knowledge for collective activism
Sandy Gould, Cardiff University
Wednesday 18th November 2026. 13:00-14:00 GMT. SRB BIG Lab.
Do you aspire to be a pain in the arse, a thorn in the side, to engage in collective agonism toward powerful organisations?
Digital technologies allow organisations to produce evidence and act on it. This talk is about activist collectives' campaigning in the context of these technologies. We'll explore the framing activities required to build campaigns that resonate with diverse audiences, and we'll consider how these activities may conflict with (or may be captured by) the ways of knowing encoded into organisations' evidentiary capacities. Could technology mediate collectives' deliberations, arguments, heterogeneities in ways that help them tell stories that draw on diverse ways of knowing to hold organisations to account?