mastodon 4.7.2Interdisciplinary sociologist, working on testing beyond the laboratory, thinking through material publics, based at University of Warwick, grew up where the Science, Technology & Society movement met Digital Culture in Amsterdam, now finding my way in the UK. http://noortjemarres.net/
Where are AI’s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AI’s individualising interfaces? #sts #design #mediastudies #hci #AI We will discuss in Edinburgh during a @braid_uk@mastodon.social open event on June 5 organised by @alextaylor@dair-community.social with @abpowell@someone.elses.computer and B Nissen and others! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-ais-publics-tickets-890186390457
The 1st research article in our Special Issue on AI Controversies in Big Date & Society is out ! Guillaume Dandurand @fenwick@mastodon.social and Jonathan Roberge show how legacy media freeze out AI's controversiality & demonstrate the force of controversy analysis as a critical approach #ShapingAI #STS @cka@aoir.social https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231219242
Strike action calendar for public sector services in the UK: watching society breakdown in the face of government inaction
The persisent problem with explanation in the social sciences: my contribution to the debate with Julian Go, Mike Savage Melinda Mills and Monika Krause at LSE Sociology now publised in the British Journal of Sociology #Sociology #STS
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13084
The programme for the #ShapingAI closing conference Shifting AI controversies - 29 & 30 Jan in Berlin - is now live! With @LouiseAmoore@mastodon.social @abpowell@someone.elses.computer @SallyWyatt@mastodon.social @spielkamp@mastodon.social & many more organised by @cka@aoir.social et al at @WZB_Berlin@wisskomm.social #STS meets #digitalmedia meets #infoactivism https://www.hiig.de/en/events/conference-shifting-ai-controversies/
How did testing and not testing for Coronavirus give rise to testing situations on English-language Twitter? My paper with @jwyg@post.lurk.org @gabrielecolombo@mastodon.social et al recombining #digitalmethods and situational analysis is finally out! https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231196538 #sociology
A lucid analysis of the Dutch election result by Tom-Jan Meeus in NRC. Short summary: the PVV victory marks the end of the Dutch consensus model of politics, as the 3 doctrines dominant since the 19th C - liberalism, conservatism and social democracy - taken together are now a minority. Yes liberalism too as the PVV opposes tolerance and favours authoritarian rule. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/24/de-winst-van-radicaal-rechts-maakt-duidelijk-dit-land-is-bezig-zichzelf-af-te-schaffen-a4182159
Next week November 1 2023 we will celebrate the launch of Nerea Calvillo's book Aeropolis at the University of Warwick! Flyer attached #STS #materialpolitics