Dear List Members (apologies for cross-posting),
we are pleased to invite you for abstract submissions to the Panel
"Studying paratexts in practice – How to research algorithms in datafied
societies" for the STS Graz 2023 Conference, held between 8-10 May 2023.
In this panel, we want to discuss different possibilities and methods
for researching algorithms (in its broadest sense) and their combination
in mixed- and multi-method research. By doing this, we also want to
discuss wider issues that we as researchers have encountered in our own
attempts studying algorithms, ML and co., asking questions such as (but
not limited to):
- What are the methodological implications of researching algorithms?
- Who has the epistemic authority to research algorithms?
- Do we as social scientific researchers bestow algorithms with (too
much) agency and power, by focusing our research (solely) on their
functioning and politics?
- What temptations do we risk of falling prey to, by researching
algorithms?
- Are we as researchers also contributing to the “paratexts of the AI
movement” (Jansen (2022)), meaning “the programmatic descriptions,
manifestos, and interviews that AI scientists used to explain what
they thought they were doing when they did their research” – and
hence contributing to (sometimes misleading) myths about what
algorithms & AI can and cannot do?
Research papers, essays and other forms of contributions, such as group
discussions or fishbowl conversations aiming at discussing these
methodological and theoretical questions on researching algorithms are
welcome to submit their proposals or abstracts.
A complete call for abstracts is attached.
To Submit an abstract, please use the conference portal, which can be
accessed here:
https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-digitalisation/ under
Session B5. Abstracts are due 30 January 2023.
In case of questions or for inquiries, please contact me:
roger.von.laufenberg@vicesse.eu or Vera Gallistl: vera.gallistl@kl.ac.at
Best wishes
--
Roger von Laufenberg, Ph.D
Managing Director
VICESSE Research GmbH | Vienna Centre for Societal Security
address. Paulanergasse4/8, 1040 Vienna
phone. +43 1 929 66 38
email. roger.von.laufenberg@vicesse.eu
web. www.vicesse.eu
twitter. @vicesse @Roger_vonL
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