Coastal water information orders: Reverse-engineering New York City's data dashboards [0.03%]
纽约市数据仪表板的逆向工程
James A Hodges,Rachel Paprocki
James A Hodges
This article examines the information systems governing individual relationships to urban coastal waterways, drawing from two data publication initiatives in New York City. In these two cases, data structure and web design features cultivat...
It's not a bug, it's a feature: How AI experts and data scientists account for the opacity of algorithms [0.03%]
这并非缺陷，而是特性——AI专家和数据科学家如何解释算法的不透明性问题
Netta Avnoon,Gil Eyal
Netta Avnoon
The opacity of machine learning (ML) algorithms is a significant concern in academic and regulatory circles. An emergent sociology of algorithms, however, argues that far from opacity being an inherent quality of algorithms, it is socially ...
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness [0.03%]
打扫暗物质探测器——本体论和规范性的捉迷藏游戏
Jaco de Swart,Annemarie Mol
Jaco de Swart
Laboratory sciences crucially depend on the cleanliness of experiments. But what is clean? In this article, we show that the salience of the valuation clean emerges through its relation to a particular ontological repertoire. Our case is th...
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa [0.03%]
地图基础设施：地理病理学、肿瘤狩猎和英属东非的殖民网络
David Reubi,Thandeka Cochrane
David Reubi
In this article, we explore infrastructures-human, epistemic, and material-that enable the creation of maps and the stories they tell about the world. We develop the concept of 'cartographic infrastructures' to reveal the hidden and fragile...
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action [0.03%]
伊鲁达的陨落与崛起：通过行动中的伦理重塑人工智能
Yubeen Kwon,Sungook Hong
Yubeen Kwon
This paper examines the case of Iruda, an AI chatbot launched in December 2020 by the South Korean startup Scatter Lab. Iruda quickly became the center of a controversy, because of inappropriate remarks and sexual exchanges. As conversation...
Sensory labor as un/knowing in a waste composition study: Identifying a chain of translation [0.03%]
感官劳动在废物流研究中的认知过程：识别一条翻译链
Taru Lehtokunnas,Niina Uusitalo,Ulla-Maija Sutinen et al.
Taru Lehtokunnas et al.
To keep track of the types and proportions of waste produced in society, various waste composition studies are carried out around the world. Through ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how statistical knowledge about waste was pro...
Francis Lee,David Ribes
Francis Lee
The social sciences and humanities have increasingly adopted computational terminology as the organizing categories for inquiry. We argue that by organizing research around vernacular computational objects (e.g. data, algorithms, or AI) and...
Predictions, uncertainty, and collective epistemic work: How projected futures informed and misinformed enactments of Covid-19 [0.03%]
预测、不确定性与集体知识工作：新冠疫情应对中的未来预估知悉作用与误导作用
Tobias Olofsson
Tobias Olofsson
By connecting an uncertain present to a potential future, predictions and other forms of projected futures construct meaningful contexts on which actors can lean when seeking to act in the face of uncertainty. This article outlines the back...
Scientific-intellectual movements in the post-truth age: The case of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis [0.03%]
后真相时代的科学知识分子运动：扩展进化综合之案例分析
Sophie Juliane Veigl,Zinaida Vasilyeva,Ruth Müller
Sophie Juliane Veigl
Over the past decade, evolutionary biology has seen an unusual number of heated debates centered around the pronouncement of an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES). This theoretical framework brings together researchers from a range of di...
Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up [0.03%]
数据市场上的劳动：数字健康初创企业的资产化、估值与代理工作
Joseph Donia,Jennifer Gibson,James A Shaw
Joseph Donia
Digital data are increasingly framed as essential resources in health and medicine, implicating diverse actors who work to transform them into different forms of value. In this article we focus on the diverse and contingent valuation practi...