Dr Gavin Duffy
Staff details
Position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Justice
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
g.duffy (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
AI justice, data justice, sociology of digital technology
Gavin is a sociologist, interested in the everyday experiences of digital technologies, how they come to be widely understood, and resistances to these understandings. His research is focused on the power to make meanings around cultural artefacts and generally takes a non-technocentric approach to digital technology.
Gavin is currently working with Lina Dencik around AI justice, examining how both discourses around AI and the physical infrastructures of AI are used to produce discourses of inevitability around these products.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Education, Deakin University, Australia 2024
Research interests
Gavin's research has previously focused on educational technologies, interested in how they are produced, used, and understood by different groups of people. This primarily drew upon du Gay et al's circuit of culture model and Actor-Network Theory. His current research builds on concepts of (data) justice in the context of AI, as well as heterodox approaches to AI such as degrowth and conviviality.
Featured publications
What is AI justice? A framework for advancing the study of technology and social justice
Forthcoming
A virtuous ethics of AI: Conviviality as a regulatory framework
forthcoming
2024: Data justice in education: Toward a research agenda
2024: Database as method: Exposing ‘data’ about educational technology through a design intervention