A5103013828- E-Government and Public Services
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Digital Games and Media
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- History of Computing Technologies
- Data Quality and Management
- Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
- Research Data Management Practices
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Media and Politics
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Web visibility and informetrics
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
Children's National
2024
University of Edinburgh
2016-2024
Edinburgh College
2016-2024
Marymount University
2022
Université du Québec à Montréal
2019
Université de Montréal
2019
Université Laval
2019
Carleton University
2019
Universities Art Association of Canada
2019
University of California, Los Angeles
2013-2018
In September 2021, the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" project (AI100) issued second report of its planned long-term periodic assessment artificial intelligence (AI) and impact society. It was written by a panel 17 study authors, each whom is deeply rooted in AI research, chaired Michael Littman Brown University. The report, entitled "Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms," answers set 14 questions probing critical areas development addressing major risks dangers AI,...
Participation is today central to many kinds of research and design practice in information studies beyond. From user‐generated content crowdsourcing peer production fan fiction citizen science, the concept remains both unexamined heterogeneous its definition. Intuitions about participation are confirmed by some examples, but scandalized others, it difficult pinpoint why seems be robust cases partial others. In this paper we offer an empirically based, comparative analysis that demonstrates...
As part of the CPOV project with Institute Network Cultures, we published a Wikipedia reader titled Critical Point View. The Reader is edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz. essays, interviews artworks brought together in this form overarching View research initiative, which began conference Bangalore (January 2010), followed events Amsterdam (March 2010) Leipzig (September 2010). collects original insights on next generation wiki-related research, from radical artistic interventions...
Data-centered participatory design research projects—wherein researchers collaborate with community members for the purpose of gathering, generating, or communicating data about their causes—can place epistemic burdens on minoritized racialized groups, even in projects focused social justice outcomes. Analysis burden encourages to rethink and value organizing activism more generally. This paper describes three varieties drawn from two case studies based authors' previous work anti-police...
Contemporary forms of data activism promise community organizers the means to pursue political action, but they simultaneously threaten responsibilize individuals and communities for documenting collective harms that are already known state. In this article, we use Mouffe's articulation agonistic pluralism analyze recent literature on in terms double bind, threat authentic voice might be muted when is used activist purposes. We argue navigate bind through practices, tactics which draw...
This paper draws from critical data studies and related fields to investigate police officer-involved homicide for Los Angeles County. We frame as a rhetorical tool that can reify certain assumptions about the world extend regimes of power. highlight possibility this type sensitive civic be investigated employed within local communities through creative practice. Community involvement with create countervailing force powerful dominant narratives supplement activist projects hold officials...
Recent advances in diffusion models and large language have underpinned a new generation of powerful accessible tools, some the most publicly visible applications are for artistic endeavour. Such however, provide little scope deeper understanding AI systems, while growing public interest them can eclipse notice vibrant community artists who long worked with other forms AI. We explore potential Art – particularly work which is both tool topic to facilitate literacies consider how tactics...
Abstract Since 2010, the UK government has transformed social security administration using digital technology and automated instruments to create deliver a single working-age benefit known as Universal Credit (UC). Social policy scholars have given much attention key tenets of UC but engaged less with leading aspects delivery their relationship different forms administrative burdens for recipients. This article addresses this empirical conceptual gap by drawing on literature analyse data...
This article describes how the City of Los Angeles is showcasing data-driven services to public through dynamic visualisations open data. I frame an analysis this aspect datafication in local government linguistics and cultural theory; drawing on set literature theorise use data as both a performative tool performance city services. then discuss examples interactive maps Angeles' websites, produced by Bureau Sanitation, Controller's Office, Department Transportation. The concludes with some...
The earliest and most widespread representation of the Arpanet were network graphs or maps that, arguably, remain its prominent artifact. In an earlier article, authors analyzed how created, what they represented, histories parallel their emphases omissions. Here, begin a retooling to highlight further is missing from them: communication flows, gateways other networks, hierarchies between nodes.
This article explores a 20-year series of ARPANET maps produced by the firm Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). These BBN signify earliest efforts to represent an early central piece modern Internet, they wind up as illustrations in contemporary discussions history Internet. Once functional tool for engineers, now serve aesthetic backdrop used without explicit recognition their intended purpose. The authors propose excavation production, design conventions, symbolic functions. They find that...
This paper describes the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a study that uses cultural mapping to understand relationships between Edinburgh's spaces local communities. The begins by detailing different methodological paths those carrying out projects will navigate: formatting project collect quantitative or qualitative data, which is usually correlated with tangible intangible as well approaching map means policy outcomes part of process community building through collective memory,...
Literature on activist archiving theorises the power of recordkeeping to give voice marginalised communities. However, missing from this archival literature are analyses about political practice preserving data as an act grassroots resistance. Simultaneously, existing scholarly data activism creation new statistical representations challenge official ones. This has largely ignored what will happen over long term, nor it treated as project in its own right. theoretical article seeks...
In this paper we study the dimension of time in social security, namely, requirement claimants to adopt a particular temporality return for entitlements. We focus on temporal rules and mandates Universal Credit (UC), unified benefit United Kingdom that delivers payment through dynamic, automated means-testing system. UC imposes monthly assessment period, unit has made infrastructural an From our empirical study, offer two sets examples how UC’s shapes claimant experience benefit. these...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand on emergent data activism literature draw distinctions between different types management practices undertaken by groups activists. Design/methodology/approach authors offer three case studies that illuminate the strategies these groups. Each group discussed in devoted representing a contentious political issue through data, but their differ meaningful ways. project Making Sense produces own pollution Kosovo. Fatal Encounters collects “missing...
The earliest and most widespread representation of the Arpanet were network graphs or maps that, arguably, remain its prominent artifact. In an earlier article, authors analyzed how created, what they represented, histories parallel their emphases omissions. Here, begin a retooling to highlight further is missing from them: flows, gateways, hierarchy.
In this paper we argue that qualitative longitudinal research (QLLR) is a crucial method for studying automated decision-making (ADM) systems as complex, dynamic digital assemblages. QLLR provides invaluable insight into the lived experiences of users data subjects ADMs well broader assemblage in which these operate. To demonstrate utility method, draw on an ongoing, empirical study examining Universal Credit (UC), social security payment used United Kingdom. UC digital-by-default and uses...
Secure Internet services like online banking require a "trusted terminal" on the client-side. However, even where strong client-side security is employed, client PC often used for input and output of sensitive information PINs/passwords, amounts, account numbers, etc. These transactions are therefore vulnerable to manipulation by malware. A method presented here allowing web users share small amounts secret including passwords numbers with large number existing creating cryptographically...
Most of the current academic literature on open data looks outward at data's reuse by public.This article describes, rather, cultural practice inside city governments.Hand-in-hand with launch policies, governments have embraced analytics to track performance, set goals, justify budget expenditures, direct public services, and represent their work public.Through an increased need data-fy, or transform records actions into digital data, staff considers analytical possibilities existing...
This article visits the origins of much current cultural expectations around role open government data. Beginning with United States' Freedom Information Act, then traces influence U.S. electronic records legislation and norms that developed during eighties nineties. In particular, concept "value-added" from financial sector reconfigured as "raw data" could be enhanced made operable through software interfaces. The Reagan administration commercial vendors viewed a proprietary venture used...