ESMÉE COLBOURNE
ABOUT
I am a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the ERC Starting Grant funded project DALOSS. I use digital methods to explore ideas around data loss, digital governance and infrastructure.
RESEARCH & ACADEMIC WORK 2024 – Present
PhD Research University of Copenhagen, Department of Humanities (April 2024 – Present)
Academic Summary
2024
Publication Pilipets, E., Geboers, M., Ventura, R., Ng, E., Loureiro, M., Rosca, A., & Colbourne, E. (2024). War, memes, art, protest, and porn: Jail(break)ing synthetic imaginaries under Open AI's content policy restrictions.An international collaboration on AI content governance and the politics of synthetic media.
2025
Teaching Co-Course Instructor, Global Critical Data Studies Department of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (February – June 2025)
Conference Presentations
RESAW 2025, Siegen, Germany (June 2025) Single Snapshots and the Loop: Oxfam.org in the Internet Archive Panel presentation, work-in-progress.
AusSTS Conference, Sydney, Australia (July 2025) Silencing Data: The case of Single Snapshots in Oxfam.org Panel presentation.
2026
External Research Stay Cambridge University, UK (January – May 2026)
Conference Presentations
IIPC Web Archiving Conference (April 2026) Porous Archives, Different Silences: National Memory, Transnational Infrastructure, and the Scribes Project Lightning talk.
GIG-ARTS 2026: Digital Futures, Sustainable Freedoms GitHub Governance: Sovereignty Through Dependency in the Boundary Infrastructure of Public CodePanel presentation.
Data Justice 2026: The Datafied State Fragile Data Rescue AI and Data Infrastructure panel.
DIY Methods 2026Souvenir and Materialization Zine contribution. A mostly screen-free, zine-based conference on experimental methods for research exchange.
Academic Service
Peer Reviewer, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference
