304 - Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Invited Session. Politics and Practices of Digital Knowledge Production

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

How do digital systems and practices intersect with, produce, and reproduce particular ways of knowing? This panel addresses contemporary intersections between digital studies and the study of science, knowledge and technology. We ask, whose ways of knowing are built into these systems, with what privilege and scope, and which ways are left out? How do the practices of digital knowledge production encode or enact systematic distinctions, categorizations, hierarchies and inequalities? Examining computational systems and artifacts from databases to algorithms, from labor politics to expertise, we return to the core questions of the field to discuss what it means for our research, our theories, and our methods when the sociology of science, knowledge and technology goes digital.

Sub Unit

• Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology

Session Organizer

• Janet Vertesi, Princeton University

Presider

• Janet Vertesi, Princeton University

Individual Presentations

• What is a Woman to an AIDS Research Infrastructure? - David Ribes, University of California-San Diego

• Spectacular Algorithms - Malte Ziewitz, Cornell University

• From Daguerreotypes to Algorithms: Machines, Expertise, and Three Forms of Objectivity - Angele Christin, Data & Society Research Institute

• Predictive Policing and Digital Surveillance - Sarah Brayne, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Judy Wajcman, London School of Economis