Workshop “Test Society/Covid-19” explores Twitter images associated with COVID-19 testing

What do images from the web and social media connected to Covid-19 testing tell us about issues, big and small, in the world? And how can they be repurposed for the study of testing situations?

In the hands-on workshop “Test Society/Covid-19” international partakers will explore how images on Twitter can be used to account for the unfolding of issues across various scales, ranging from everyday moments to media outrage provoking events. The workshop is hosted by Media of Cooperation and will take place on 16th and 17th of December 2021.

As it builds on previous workshops at the Universities of Warwick, Amsterdam and St. Gallen, the workshop will offer researchers in STS, media studies and associated fields an opportunity to engage in and reflect on interpretative analysis of visual data in an interdisciplinary set-up crossing social, design and data-intensive methods. This event is organised by Noortje Marres (University of Warwick), Liliana Bounegru (King’s College London), Gabriele Colombo (Politecnico di Milano), Carolin Gerlitz (University of Siegen), Jonathan Gray (King’s College London).

More information can be found here.