Given the overwhelming SMC presence at the 2021 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, we thought we’d assemble a list of panels chaired by, organized by, and featuring SMC members and alums. Tune in on October 6th – 9th to hear a wide range of presentations on topics such as dead and dying platforms, “caring” for data, the sexual politics of the polygraph, “Green AI” through a feminist lens, and digital pronoun sharing as a gendering process.
If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so via this link until October 6th, 2021. We’ll see you there!
danah boyd
(Dis)Trust in Public-Sector Data, Technology, and Science – I: Environment and Scientific Legitimacy
- Thu, October 7, 11:30am EDT (session organizer)
(Dis)Trust in Public Sector Data Infrastructures – II: Forensics and Fevers, Testing and Trust
- Fri, October 8, 1:20pm EDT (session organizer)
(Dis)Trust in Public-Sector Data, Technology, and Science – III: Census, Technology, and Numbers
- Thu, October 7, 1:20pm EDT (chair and presenter) ““Filling in the Gaps”: Investigating Civil Society Organizations’ Role in the 2020 United States Census”
Encounters with Failure in STS II
- Wed, October 6, 9:40am EDT (presenter) “Time and Money: How Public Sector Agencies Resist Organizational Failure”
Niall Docherty
Digital (Un)wellness: Power, Health, and Screen Time – II
- Wed, October 6, 6:40pm EDT (presenter) “Beyond social media self-control: How to better account for the psychic costs of the attention-economy”
Rachel Bergmann
- Sat, October 9, 11:30pm EDT (session organizer and presenter) “’Green AI,’ Technofeminism, and Environmental Justice”
- Sat, October 9, 9:40am EDT (session organizer)
- Sat, October 9, 8:00am EDT (session organizer)
Muira McCammon
- Sat, October 9, 3:00pm EDT (chair)
Rida Qadri
- Fri, October 8, 6:40pm EDT (presenter) “Knowing Platforms through Workers; Knowing Workers through Platforms”
Mapping the Conceptual Vocabulary of AI in the Global South – III
- Wed, October 6, 11:30am EDT (discussant)
Megan Finn
Data / Care: Relations, Affects, Practices – I
- Fri, October 8, 11:30am EDT (presenter) “Data Care During Crisis: A Comparative analysis of COVID data infrastructure builders in India and the USA”
Power in Relation: Digital Technologies Across Geography and Scale
- Thu, October 7, 1:20pm EDT (discussant)
Splinternets – III: State and Market
- Sat, October 9, 11:30am EDT (presenter) “Global Corporations, National Laws: Data Access Requests in India, USA, and UK”
Jessa Lingel
The Imposter as Engine of Uncertainty – II
- Sat, October 9, 5:00pm EDT (presenter) “A Queer Test for Straight Imposters: The Polygraph’s Sexual Politics”
Alice Marwick
Conspiracy Theorists and Techno-Science – I
- Fri, October 8, 8:00am EDT (presenter) “Future Proves Past: The “Q Clock” and Instruments of Conspiracy”
Andrea Alarcon
Doing and Making Times I: Multispecies
- Wed, October 6, 9:40am EDT (presenter) “Of Bread and Time: Temporal Mending Practices Under Quarantine”
Tristan Gohring
Trans STS: An Emerging and Continuing Field
- Sat, October 9, 8:00am EDT (presenter) “Digital Pronouns: Using and sharing pronouns as gender classification practices”
Aaron Plasek
Human-Computer Entanglements: Psychology, Computing, and Artificial Intelligence in the 20th Century
- Sat, October 9, 8:00am EDT (presenter) “Production of Completely New Ideas not Deducible from Known Data”: Human Creative Activity as Early Machine Learning”
Aleena Chia
- Sat, October 9, 11:30am EDT (presenter) “Caring for Automated Systems in Digital Game Development”
Luke Stark
Human-Computer Entanglements: Psychology, Computing, and Artificial Intelligence in the 20th Century
- Sat, October 9, 8:00am EDT (discussant)
Tero Karppi
Demos, Tests, Prototypes – Politics of the not yet established
- Fri, October 8, 8:00am EDT (presenter) “The Perseverance Rover and Mediatization of Mars”
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