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Forestfortrees bookmarked on 2009-09-29 technology framing anthropology research humanism
  • This frame cuts out a lot of context in order to focus on the specific interactions.
  • Where are we to make the cut between human and machine in a given research frame? How do we make those frames? How might we expand those frames? How can we take responsibility for the cuts we make?
  • Suchman says that this illustration is a good way to illustrate the word “reconfiguration”, which she finds to be a vital part of using technology. She cites Donna Haraway’s notion of technologies as ‘materialized figurations’ (from her book, “Modest Witness”). That is: Technologies take part of our activities and practices and materialize them. Configuring a tool to fit with a certain activity or practice.
  • She uses the example that when roboticists are designing human-like machines, they are expressing their notions of what it means to be human - of human practices - in their design.

  • What they found was that this sort of utilizing different information sources is unremarkable everyday stuff to the controllers. This led to a new understanding of what an information system is:


    - multiple, partial information sources

    - assembled into a working system through the skilled practices of their use

  • practices … used by members of a profession [that] shape events in the domains subject to their professional scrutiny. The shaping process creates the objects of knowledge that become the insignia of profession’s craft.

  • We get different entities when we put technology and people together. She ends by quoting the feminist physicist Karen Barad (in her book “Meeting the universe halfway” (2007)):


    Agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfigurings of the world.

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  • 29 Sep 09
    forestfortrees
    Jeremy Price

    technology framing anthropology research humanism

    • This frame cuts out a lot of context in order to focus on the specific interactions.
    • Where are we to make the cut between human and machine in a given research frame? How do we make those frames? How might we expand those frames? How can we take responsibility for the cuts we make?
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