Message posted on 27/03/2023
STS-CH conference Basel, panel 20: The Living Rooms of Computation
Dear colleagues, As part of the upcoming STS-CH conference that will take place at the University of Basel on August 31 and September 1, 2023, we invite you to submit your proposals to the following panel: The Living Rooms of Computation: Practices, Alignments, Frictions In a 2015 article entitled “The Cathedral of Computation”, Ian Bogost invited social scientists to move away from sensationalist and devout discourses about the absolute power of algorithms and computation to better document – empirically and agnostically – the constitutive relationships of a culture ‘with computers in it.’ As the 10th anniversary of this visionary proposition is approaching, this panel proposes to investigate digital technologies under the lens of the infra-ordinary (Perec 1989), i.e., as they emerge from mundane situated practices. The panel addresses, but is not limited to, three sets of interrelated questions: First, where are the computing devices that irrigate contemporary societies imagined and designed? While ethnographic inquiries have documented academic (Jaton 2021), corporate (Christin 2020), and crowdsourced (Gray and Suri 2019) computational groundwork, much remains to be done to better understand the multiple locations in which our digital society is imagined, produced, and enacted. Secondly, who are the people who manufacture, assemble, design, or enact computational devices (algorithms, software, referential databases, hardware) and what are the political and economic arrangements (Callon 2021) that these people are part of? Thirdly, how and through what means are computational tools and devices put to work? If several ethnographic and historical investigations have managed to account for the work of programming (e.g., Pütz 2021) and assembling electronic components (e.g., Haigh, Priestley and Rope 2016), the concrete work required to put computers into use remains little documented. In parallel to ethnographic and historical glances on infra-ordinary practices, the panel invites empirical and conceptual socio-anthropological contributions highlighting the disruptive alignments and frictions (Edwards et al. 2011) that shape contemporary computer-related activities. More details are available here: https://sts2023.ch/call-for-papers/#P20 Warm wishes, Florian Jaton (STS Lab, University of Lausanne) and Anna Jobin (Institute Human-IST, University of Fribourg) _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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