“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech.
In this new paper on data journeys, the authors draw on the concept of domestication to show how data are made usable at sites of reuse: https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231212506
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two sites of biomedical research, the authors identify four dimensions to data domestication: storytelling, standardization, formatting and cultivation.
The study stresses the importance of local settings for data work, even in a global data economy.
I’m a critical #datastudies and #mediastudies scholar who focuses on #datacenters and lately also on #humanoids in the #cloud. I’m an Associate Professor at the U of #Calgary (Alberta, Canada). Very gay and very pro-masking and -taking care of each other. Hi! 💘
Hi all, my re #introduction — I’m a critical #datastudies and #mediastudies scholar who focuses on #datacenters#cloud#infrastructure and #datastorage. I’m an Associate Professor of Film and Media, starting a new job at Queen’s Univeristy (Kingston, ON, Canada) in Jan 2024. I’ll continue to direct the Environmental Media Lab.
Very gay and very pro-masking and -taking care of each other. Hi! 💘
my work explores the role of digital data, methods and infrastructures in the composition of collective life.
i'm currently focusing on...
📘 a book on public data practices
🌳 arts-based digital methods for exploring environmental issues
🐌 a special issue on critical technical practices in digital research
🗃 documenting online mobilisations of east and southeast asian communities in the uk
i'm senior lecturer in critical infrastructure studies at the department of digital humanities, king's college london; cofounder of publicdatalab.org; and research associate at digitalmethods.net + medialab.sciencespo.fr.