Event overview
Digital practices: some methodological reflections
Drawing on studies informed by anthropology, ethnomethodology, and feminist science and technology studies (STS), this talk considers some possibilities for tracing dynamics of sociomaterial agency at the human-computer interface. Commonly understood as a line of demarcation between humans and machine that delineates two separate bodies, one organic and the other artefactual, I reconfigure the interface as a site through which cultural imaginaries and material practices are enacted. Grounded in the specificities of a range of cases, I offer a reflection on some onto-epistemologies and politics of digital practices, and their methodological implications.
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, and Co-Director of Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies. Her research has involved ethnographic studies of practices of technology design and use, and critical engagement with projects in the design of humanlike machines, informed by feminist science and technology studies. Her current research extends her longstanding engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary war fighting, including the figurations that animate military training and simulation, and problems of ‘situational awareness’ in remotely-controlled weapon systems
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Hosted by the Sociology Department and The Centre for Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Goldsmiths, University of London
Dates & times
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| 1 Jun 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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