Dear all,
If you're interested in issues of identification and the role of numbers in
such practices, please consider joining our panel at Nordic STS in June. I've
included the panel description and the submission link below.
Best,
Baki
[The Role of Numbers in Identification Practices]
In diverse domains ranging from street addressing to civil registration, as
well as in nearly all computational approaches to identification including
voice and face recognition, numbers play a crucial role. In their introduction
to the S&TS special issue on numbers and numbering, Lippert & Verran (2018)
argue that number studies have often featured in STS scholarship. Indeed, the
potential of the number as an object of study traverses many domains with
relative ease, and past studies have used a wide variety of methods to analyse
numbers and numbering. In this panel, we seek to focus scholarly attention on
the relationship between numbers and identification practices. The
identification of individuals, voices, faces, devices, addresses, streets,
homes, and many others is saturated with numbers. But what makes numbers in
identification so versatile for practitioners yet elusive as objects of
analysis? We welcome all contributions that attend to the role of numbers in
identification practices from an STS perspective, and we are especially
interested in presentations that follow numbers in action, e.g. through
ethnographic studies of numbering practices and/or number work in
identification.
Other potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
The use of Nordic identification numbers in civil registration and/or
everyday life;
historical perspectives on street/house addresses and addressing;
ethnographic studies of digital identification technologies such as face
or voice recognition;
analyses of the standardization of numbers in e.g. area codes, license
plates, etc.;
the transformation of identification through the 'mundane' routines of
number work;
number/sensor relations in the identification of bodies and objects;
the use of numbers in the identification and evaluation of scholarly
work.
Panel organizers: Baki Cakici (IT University of Copenhagen); Tanja Knaus and
Frauke Rohden (University of Oslo)
Submission deadline: 1 March 2023
Submission form:
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences
/2023/nordic-sts/submission.html
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Baki Cakici
Associate Professor
Technologies in Practice (TiP)
IT University of Copenhagen
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