4460 - Emergent Technosocial Entanglements

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Across a variety of social and institutional venues, these papers richly illustrate complex dynamics of social change, technological innovation, technological momentum, and the creation of meaning. All of these papers deal with contemporary technological and social changes that have become matters of tremendous concern within media and public policy. While technological innovations are often presented as solutions to social problems, these papers cut through hype (past and present) to examine benefits but also risks, dangers, inequalities, and other problems that threaten to untangle technosocial fabrics while reweaving new technosocial orders.

Sub Unit

• Technology

Session Organizer

• Tom J. Waidzunas, Temple University

Presider

• Justin Richard Levine, Temple University

Individual Presentations

• Parallel Ports: Sociotechnical Change from the “Alt-right” to Alt-tech - Brian Friedberg, Data And Society; Becca Lewis, Stanford university

• RoboTruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work - Karen Levy, Cornell University

• Smartness as Deliberate Ignorance - Burcu Baykurt, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• The Moral Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Global Field Crisis - Jane Pryma, Northwestern University

Discussant

• Kevin M. Moseby, Drexel University