The Organization Research Group

Friday, March 8, 2024

Possati, L. (2023). Psychoanalyzing artificial intelligence: the case of Replika. AI & Society, 38. doi:10.1007/s00146-021-01379-7

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Journals

Friday, March 1, 2024

Possati, L. (2023). From Turing to Peirce. A semiotic interpretation of computation. Foundations of Science, 28. doi:10.1007/s10699-022-09878-6

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Friday, February 23, 2024

Marin, L., Masschelein, J., & Simons, M. (2018). Page, text and screen in the university: Revisiting the Illich hypothesis. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(1), 49–60. doi:10.1080/00131857.2017.1323624

Friday, February 16, 2024

Ingold, T. (2024). On being tasked with the problem of inhabiting the page. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 13(2). Retrieved from https://social-epistemology.com/2024/02/02/on-being-tasked-with-the-problem-of-inhabiting-the-page-tim-ingold/.

Friday, February 9, 2024

Hayles, N. K. (2024). Detoxifying cybernetics: from homeostasis to autopoiesis and beyond. In Y. Hui (Ed.), Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol. 1: Epistemological Reconstruction (pp. 85–99). Hanart Press.

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Friday, February 2, 2024

Bergson, H. (2023). The cinematographic mechanism of thought and the mechanistic illusion. A glance at the history of systems. Real becoming and false evolutionism. In Creative Evolution (pp. 238–316). Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315537818

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Friday, January 26, 2024

Pedwell, C. (2023). Intuition as a “trained thing”: sensing, thinking, and speculating in computational cultures. Subjectivity, 30, 348–372. doi:10.1057/s41286-023-00170-x

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Journals

Friday, January 19, 2024

Mead, M. (1968). Cybernetics of cybernetics. In H. von Foerster (Ed.), Purposive Systems. New York: Spartan Books.
Krippendorff, K. (2008). Social organizations as reconstitutable networks of conversations. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 15(3–4), 149–161.

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Friday, January 12, 2024

Krippendorff, K. (2023). A critical cybernetics. Constructivist Foundations, 19(1), 82–93.

Friday, January 5, 2024

Wooodward, A. (2023). Raymond Ruyer and the Philosophy of Information. In Cybernetics and the Origin of Information (pp. vii–xxiii). London: Rowman & Littlefield.

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Friday, December 15, 2023

No further meetings until 2024.

Friday, December 8, 2023

Teil, G. (2023). Why do experts and amateurs diverge in their tastings? A pragmatic analysis of perception. Theory, Culture & Society. doi:10.1177/02632764231203185

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Friday, December 1, 2023

Pasquinelli, M. (2023). The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Verso.

People

Publishers

Friday, November 24, 2023

No meeting.

Friday, November 17, 2023

Pasquinelli, M. (2023). The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Verso.

People

Publishers

Friday, November 10, 2023

Pasquinelli, M. (2023). The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Verso.

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Publishers

Friday, November 3, 2023

Hauser, E. (2023). Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi:10.1002/asi.24820

Friday, October 27, 2023

Bricken, T., Templeton, A., Batson, J., Chen, B., & Jermyn, A. (2023). Towards monosemanticity: decomposing language models with dictionary learnin. Transformer Circuits Thread. Retrieved from https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-features/.

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Friday, October 20, 2023

Fall break; no meeting.

Friday, October 13, 2023

Bates, M. (2018). Concepts for the study of information embodiment. Library Trends, 66(3), 239–266. doi:10.1353/lib.2018.0002

People

Journals

Friday, October 6, 2023

Petras, V. (2023). The identity of information science. Journal of Documentation. doi:10.1108/JD-04-2023-0074

People

Friday, September 29, 2023

Gal, S. (2016). Scale-Making: Comparison and Perspective as Ideological Projects. In E. S. Carr & M. Lempert (Eds.), Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life (pp. 91–111). Berkeley: University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.15

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Friday, September 22, 2023

Day, S., Lury, C., & Ward, H. (2023). Personalization: a new political arithmetic? Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 24(2), 167–194. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2022.2098352

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Friday, September 15, 2023

Seaver, N. (2022). Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Friday, September 8, 2023

Rieder, B., Gordon, G., & Sileno, G. (2022). Mapping Value(s) in AI: Methodological Directions for Examining Normativity in Complex Technical Systems. Sociologica, 16(3), 51–83. doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/15910

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Journals

Friday, September 1, 2023

Warner, J. (2023). The spectrum of semantic and syntactic labour. Journal of Documentation. doi:10.1108/JD-03-2023-0057

People

Friday, August 25, 2023

McGuigan, L. (2023). Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Publishers

Friday, August 18, 2023

No meeting; next week we'll continue reading Selling the American People.

Friday, August 11, 2023

McGuigan, L. (2023). Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Publishers

Friday, August 4, 2023

Mackenzie, A. (2023). Some-any: approximating personalization in contemporary ensembles. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2023.2185874

Friday, June 2, 2023

McMillan-Major, A., Bender, E. M., & Friedman, B. (2023). Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice. ACM Journal on Responsible Computing. doi:10.1145/3594737

Friday, May 26, 2023

John-Mathews, J.-M., Cardon, D., & Balagué, C. (2022). From Reality to World. A Critical Perspective on AI Fairness. Journal of Business Ethics, 178(4), 945–959. doi:10.1007/s10551-022-05055-8

Friday, May 19, 2023

John-Mathews, J.-M., & Cardon, D. (2022). The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AI. Sociologica, 16(3), 5–16. doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/15931

People

Journals

Friday, May 12, 2023

No meeting.

Friday, May 5, 2023

Piantadosi, S., & Hill, F. (2022). Meaning without reference in large language models. In NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Neuro Causal and Symbolic AI (nCSI). San Diego, CA: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2208.02957

Friday, April 28, 2023

Labov, W. (1973). The boundaries of words and their meanings. In C.-J. Bailey & R. Shuy (Eds.), New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English (pp. 29–62). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

People

Friday, April 21, 2023

Sacks, H. (1972). On the analyzability of stories by children. In J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.), Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication (pp. 325–345). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

People

Friday, April 14, 2023

Stewart, J. (2014). An enquiry concerning the nature of conceptual categories: A case-study on the social dimensions of human cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1–13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00654

People

Friday, April 7, 2023

No meeting—extended spring break.

Friday, March 31, 2023

No meeting—extended spring break.

Friday, March 24, 2023

No meeting—extended spring break.

Friday, March 17, 2023

Smith, D. (1975). The social construction of documentary reality. Sociological Inquiry, 44(4). doi:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1974.tb01159.x

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Friday, March 10, 2023

Poirier, L. (2021). Reading datasets: Strategies for interpreting the politics of data signification. Big Data & Society, 8(2). doi:10.1177/20539517211029322

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Friday, March 3, 2023

Wickett, K. M. (2023). Critical data modeling and the basic representation model. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–11. doi:10.1002/asi.24745

Friday, February 24, 2023

Iliadis, A., Acker, A., Stevens, W., & Kavaklı, S. B. (2023). One schema to rule them all: How Schema.org models the world of search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–64. doi:10.1002/asi.24744

Friday, February 17, 2023

Bishop, R. (2022). Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: An introduction. Theory, Culture & Society, 39(7–8), 5–17. doi:10.1177/02632764221141804

People

Friday, February 10, 2023

Serres, M. (2015). Thumbelina: The culture and technology of Millenials. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Friday, February 3, 2023

Barker, T. (2023). Michael Serres and the philosophy of technology. Theory, Culture & Society, 1–16. doi:10.1177/02632764221140825

People

Friday, January 27, 2023

Ginzburg, C. (2004). Family resemblances and family trees: Two cognitive metaphors. Critical Inquiry, 30(3), 537–556. doi:10.1086/421161

People

Journals

Friday, January 20, 2023

Tatarchenko, K., Yermakova, A., & De Mol, L. (2021). Russian logics and the culture of impossible: Part II–Reinterpreting algorithmic rationality. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 43(4), 57–69. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2021.3135714

Friday, January 13, 2023

Tatarchenko, K., Yermakova, A., & De Mol, L. (2021). Russian logics and the culture of impossible: Part I–Recovering intelligentsia logics. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 43(4), 43–56. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2021.3126649

Friday, December 16, 2022

Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional vision. American Anthropologist, 96(3), 606–633. doi:10.1525/aa.1994.96.3.02a00100

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Friday, December 9, 2022

Button, G., Lynch, M., & Sharrock, W. (2022). Ethnomethodology, conversational analysis and constructive analysis: On formal structures and practical action. Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003220794

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Publishers

Friday, December 2, 2022

Button, G., Lynch, M., & Sharrock, W. (2022). Ethnomethodology, conversational analysis and constructive analysis: On formal structures and practical action. Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003220794

People

Publishers

Friday, November 25, 2022

Garfinkel, H., & Sacks, H. (1986). On formal structures of practical actions. In H. Garfinkel (Ed.), Ethnomethodological studies of work (pp. 157–189). Abingdon: Routledge.

People

Publishers

Friday, November 18, 2022

Roach, R. (2022). Expanding the history of humanities computing: Hugh Kenner’s conversational criticism. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 00, 1–17. doi:10.1093/llc/fqac066

Friday, November 11, 2022

Kockelman, P. (2017). The art of interpretation in the age of computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636531.001.0001

People

Friday, November 4, 2022

Kockelman, P. (2017). The art of interpretation in the age of computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636531.001.0001

People

Friday, October 28, 2022

Kockelman, P. (2017). The art of interpretation in the age of computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636531.001.0001

People

Friday, October 21, 2022

Kockelman, P. (2017). The art of interpretation in the age of computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636531.001.0001

People

Friday, October 14, 2022

Montoya, R. D. (2022). Power of position: Classification and the biodiversity sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/12245.001.0001

People

Publishers

Friday, October 7, 2022

Montoya, R. D. (2022). Power of position: Classification and the biodiversity sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/12245.001.0001

People

Publishers

Friday, September 30, 2022

Virtual field trip to re:compute symposium

Friday, September 16, 2022

Simondon, G. (2016). On the modes of existence of technical objects. Minneapolis: Univocal.

People

Publishers

Friday, September 9, 2022

Hong, S. (2022). Predictions without futures. History & Theory, 61(3), 371–390. doi:10.1111/hith.12269

People

Journals

Friday, September 2, 2022

Crooks, R., & Currie, M. (2021). Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices. The Information Society, 37(4), 201–213. doi:10.1080/01972243.2021.1920081

People

Friday, August 26, 2022

Dander, V., & Macgilchrist, F. (2022). School of data and shifting forms of political subjectivity. In P. Bettinger (Ed.), Educational perspectives on mediality and subjectivation (pp. 45–69). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84343-4_3

People

Publishers

Friday, August 19, 2022

Gray, J., Gerlitz, C., & Bounegru, L. (2018). Data infrastructure literacy. Big Data & Society, 5(2). doi:10.1177/2053951718786316

People

Friday, July 8, 2022

de Groat, G. (2015). A history of video game cataloging in U.S. libraries. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53(2), 135–156. doi:10.1080/01639374.2014.954297

Friday, July 1, 2022

Brock, A. (2020). Distributed blackness: African American cybercultures. New York: New York University Press. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.001.0001

People

Friday, June 24, 2022

Angus, I. (2019). Logic of subsumption, logic of invention: Marx, Marcuse, and Simondon. Philosophy & Technology, 32, 613–625. doi:10.1007/s13347-018-0324-4

People

Friday, June 17, 2022

Wright, S. (2021). The weight of the printed word: Text, context and miltancy in Operaismo. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004471542

People

Publishers

Friday, June 10, 2022

Wright, S. (2021). The weight of the printed word: Text, context and miltancy in Operaismo. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004471542

People

Publishers

Friday, June 3, 2022

West, S. M. (2022). Cryptography as information control. Social Studies of Science, 52(3), 353–375. doi:10.1177/03063127221078314

People

Friday, April 29, 2022

Morozov, E. (2022). Critique of techno feudal reason. New Left Review, 133/134, 89–126.

People

Journals

Friday, April 15, 2022

Apel, K.-O. (1981). Charles Peirce: From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Friday, April 8, 2022

Bergman, M. K. (2018). A knowledge representation practionary: Guidelines based on Charles Saunders Peirce. Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98092-8

People

Publishers

Friday, March 11, 2022

Joque, J. (2022). Revolutionary mathematics: Artificial intelligence, statistics, and the logic of capitalism. New York: Verso.

People

Publishers

Friday, March 4, 2022

Attend panel discussion of Justin Joque’s book Revolutionary mathematics: Artificial intelligence, statistics, and the logic of capitalism.

Friday, February 25, 2022

Tsing, A. L. (2022). The socialty of birds: Reflections on ontological edge effects. In T. van Dooren & M. Chrulew (Eds.), Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose (pp. 15–32). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478022664-002

People

Friday, February 11, 2022

No meeting.

Friday, February 4, 2022

Koch, M. (2018). Introduction: Non-knowledge and digital cultures. In M. Boden, M. Koch, & M. Leeker (Eds.), Non-knowledge digital cultures (pp. 11–18). Lüneburg, Germany: meson press.
Bernard, A. (2018). The total archive: On the function of non-knowledge in digital cultures. In M. Boden, M. Koch, & M. Leeker (Eds.), Non-knowledge digital cultures (pp. 19–38). Lüneburg, Germany: meson press.

People

Publishers

Friday, January 28, 2022

Moor, R. (2016). On trails: An exploration. New York: Simon & Schuster.

People

Publishers

Friday, January 21, 2022

Moor, R. (2016). On trails: An exploration. New York: Simon & Schuster.

People

Publishers

Friday, December 17, 2021

Ernst, W. (2016). Chronopoetics: The temporal being and operativity of technological media. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

People

Friday, December 10, 2021

Arawjo, I. (2020). In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–15). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376731

Friday, December 3, 2021

Radio, E., & Kalwara, J. (2021). The trajectory of linked data in late capitalism. Journal of Documentation. doi:10.1108/JD-02-2021-0037

People

Friday, November 26, 2021

No meeting.

Friday, November 19, 2021

Tarkovsky’s Mirror at the Varsity Theatre

Friday, November 12, 2021

Parisi, L. (2021). Interactive computation and artificial epistemologies. Theory, Culture & Society, 38(7–8), 1–21. doi:10.1177/02632764211048548

People

Friday, November 5, 2021

Le Guin, U. K. (2020). The carrier bag theory of fiction. London: Ignota Books.
Sofia, Z. (2000). Container technologies. Hypatia, 15(2), 181–201. doi:10.1353/hyp.2000.0029

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Journals

Publishers

Friday, October 29, 2021

Vismann, C. (2008). From documents to records. In Files: Law and Media Technology (pp. 71–101). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Friday, October 22, 2021

Vismann, C. (2008). From translating to legislating. In Files: Law and Media Technology (pp. 39–70). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Friday, October 15, 2021

Vismann, C. (2008). Law’s writing lessons. In Files: Law and Media Technology (pp. 1–38). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Friday, October 8, 2021

Viljoen, S. (2020). Democratic Data: A Relational Theory For Data Governance. Yale Law Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3727562

People

Journals

Friday, October 1, 2021

Greene, D. (2021). The promise of access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hope. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/11674.001.0001

People

Publishers

Friday, September 24, 2021

Greene, D. (2021). The promise of access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hope. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/11674.001.0001

People

Publishers

Friday, September 17, 2021

Geiger, R. S., Cope, D., Ip, J., Lotosh, M., Shah, A., Weng, J., & Tang, R. (2021). “Garbage in, garbage out” revisited: What do machine learning application papers report about human-labeled training data? Quantitative Science Studies, 2(2), 1–33. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00144

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Friday, September 10, 2021

Young, L. C. (2021). Colonization’s logistical media: The ship and the document. In M. Hockenberry, N. Starosielski, & S. Zieger (Eds.), Assembly codes: The logistics of media (pp. 94–110). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478013037-008
Starosielski, N. (2021). The politics of cable supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine. In M. Hockenberry, N. Starosielski, & S. Zieger (Eds.), Assembly codes: The logistics of media (pp. 190–205). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478013037-014

People

Friday, September 3, 2021

Renn, J. (2020). The evolution of knowledge: Rethinking science for the Anthropocene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvdf0kpk

People

Friday, August 27, 2021

Ryan's chapter on semiosis

Friday, August 20, 2021

Renn, J. (2020). The evolution of knowledge: Rethinking science for the Anthropocene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvdf0kpk

People

Friday, August 13, 2021

Renn, J. (2020). The evolution of knowledge: Rethinking science for the Anthropocene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvdf0kpk

People

Friday, August 6, 2021

No meeting

Friday, July 30, 2021

Damerow, P. (1996). Abstraction and representation: Essays on the cultural evolution of thinking. New York: Kluwer Academic. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8624-5

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Publishers

Friday, July 23, 2021

Pasquinelli, M. (2021). How to Make a Class: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism. Qui Parle, 30(1), 159–184. doi:10.1215/10418385-8955836

People

Journals

Friday, July 16, 2021

Stevens, N., Hoffmann, A. L., & Florini, S. (2021). The unremarked optimum: whiteness, optimization, and control in the database revolution. Review of Communication, 21(2), 113–128. doi:10.1080/15358593.2021.1934521

People

Friday, July 9, 2021

Final edits for Melanie's book

Friday, July 2, 2021

No meeting

Friday, June 25, 2021

Hui, Y. (2021). Introduction: Philosophy after automation? Philosophy Today, 65(2), 217–233. doi:10.5840/philtoday2021652392

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Journals

Friday, June 18, 2021

Plantin, J.-C. (2021). The data archive as factory: Alienation and resistance of data processors. Big Data & Society, 8(1). doi:10.1177/20539517211007510

People

Friday, June 11, 2021

No meeting.

Friday, June 4, 2021

No meeting.

Friday, May 28, 2021

Chatting about ORG plans.

Friday, May 21, 2021

Pütz, O. (2021). Managing exactness and vagueness in computer science work: Programming and self-repair in meetings. Social Studies of Science. doi:10.1177/03063127211010972

People

Friday, May 14, 2021

No meeting.

Friday, May 7, 2021

Watson, R., & Carlin, A. P. (2012). ‘Information’: Praxeological considerations. Human Studies, 35, 327–345. doi:10.1007/s10746-012-9233-1

People

Journals

Friday, April 30, 2021

Liu, L. H. (2021). Wittgenstein in the machine. Critical Inquiry, 47(3), 425–455. doi:10.1086/713551

People

Journals

Friday, April 23, 2021

Gabriel, R. P. (2014). In Onward! 2014: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming & Software (pp. 301–319). Piscataway: IEEE. doi:10.1145/2661136.2661155

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Conferences

Publishers

Friday, April 16, 2021

Garvey, S. C. (2021). The “general problem solver” does not exist: Mortimer Taube and the art of AI criticism. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 43(1), 60–73. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2021.3051686

Friday, April 9, 2021

No meeting.

Friday, April 2, 2021

Adam, A. (1998). Artificial knowing: Gender and the thinking machine. Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203005057

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Publishers

Friday, March 26, 2021

D’Ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data Feminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/11805.001.0001

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Publishers

Friday, March 19, 2021

Rheinberger, H.-J. (2010). An epistemology of the concrete: Twentieth-century histories of life. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822391333

People

Friday, March 12, 2021

No meeting.

Friday, March 5, 2021

Rheinberger, H.-J. (2010). An epistemology of the concrete: Twentieth-century histories of life. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822391333

People

Friday, February 26, 2021

Evan's paper on critical scholarship of AI

Friday, February 19, 2021

Ankeny, R., & Leonelli, S. (2020). Model Organisms. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108593014

People

Friday, February 12, 2021

Keller, E. F. (2000). The century of the gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

People

Friday, February 5, 2021

Collier, J. (2008). Information in biological systems. In P. Adriaans & J. van Benthem (Eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Volume 8: Philosophy of Information (pp. 763–787). Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-51726-5.50024-8

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Publishers

Friday, January 29, 2021

Ma, Y. (2020). Understanding information: Adding a non‐individualistic lens. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi:10.1002/asi.24441

Friday, January 22, 2021

Cleland, C. E., Hazen, R. M., & Morrison, S. M. (2021). Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(1). doi:10.1073/pnas.2015370118

Friday, January 15, 2021

Farstadvoll, S. (2018). Growing Concerns: Plants and Their Roots in the Past. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(5), 174–193. doi:10.1558/jca.35117

Friday, January 8, 2021

Brün, H. (2004). Technology and the composer. In A. Chandra (Ed.), When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brün (pp. 163–176). Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
Brün, H. (2004). For anticommunication. In A. Chandra (Ed.), When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brün (pp. 60–70). Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.

People

Friday, December 18, 2020

Ebeling, M. F. E. (2016). Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-50221-6

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Publishers

Friday, December 11, 2020

Siskin, C. (2016). System: The shaping of modern knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

People

Publishers

Friday, December 4, 2020

Virgil, V. W. (2020). Genealogy of algorithms: Datafication as transvaluation. Le Foucaldien, 6(1). doi:10.16995/lefou.74

People

Journals

Friday, November 27, 2020

No meeting (Thanksgiving)

Friday, November 20, 2020

No meeting (grading)

Friday, November 13, 2020

A revised chapter from Melanie's book in progress

Friday, November 6, 2020

Winthrop-Young, G. (2014). The Kultur of cultural techniques: Conceptual inertia and the parasitic materialities of ontologization. Cultural Politics, 10(3), 376–388. doi:10.1215/17432197-2795741

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Friday, October 30, 2020

Buneman, P., Cheney, J., Tan, W.-C., & Vansummeren, S. (2008). Curated databases. In Proceedings of the twenty-seventh ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems (pp. 1–12). New York: ACM. doi:10.1215/17432197-2795741
Palmer, C. L., Weber, N. M., Muñoz, T., & Renear, A. H. (2013). Foundations of data curation: The pedagogy and practice of “purposeful work” with research data. Archive Journal. Retrieved from https://www.archivejournal.net/essays/foundations-of-data-curation-the-pedagogy-and-practice-of-purposeful-work-with-research-data/.

Friday, October 23, 2020

No meeting (ASIS&T)

Friday, October 16, 2020

No meeting

Friday, October 9, 2020

Thomer, A. K., & Wickett, K. M. (2020). Relational data paradigms: What do we learn by taking the materiality of databases seriously? Big Data & Society, 7(1). doi:10.1177/2053951720934838

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2019). Costs of connection: How data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Calzati, S. (2020). Decolonising “data colonialism”: Propositions for investigating the Realpolitik of today’s networked ecology. Television & New Media, 1–16. doi:10.1177/1527476420957267

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Friday, September 18, 2020

Thompson, B., Roberts, S. T., & Lupyan, G. (2020). Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment. Nature Human Behavior, (4), 1029–1038. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0924-8

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Friday, September 4, 2020

Stawarska, B. (2020). Saussure’s linguistics, structuralism, and phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a century. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Friday, August 14, 2020

Another chapter from Melanie's book in progress.

Friday, August 7, 2020

Double postponement.

Friday, July 31, 2020

No meeting.

Friday, July 24, 2020

Amoore, L. (2020). Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478009276

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Friday, July 17, 2020

Amoore, L. (2020). Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478009276

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Friday, July 10, 2020

Amoore, L. (2020). Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478009276

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Friday, July 3, 2020

Rieder, B. (2020). Engines of order: A mechanology of algorithmic techniques. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv12sdvf1

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Friday, June 26, 2020

Rieder, B. (2020). Engines of order: A mechanology of algorithmic techniques. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv12sdvf1

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Friday, June 19, 2020

Rieder, B. (2020). Engines of order: A mechanology of algorithmic techniques. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv12sdvf1
Finn, M., Rosner, D. K., Black, S., Cunningham, N., Dew, K. N., Hoy, J., … Morgan, C. (2020). Troubled worlds: A course syllabus about information work and the Anthropocene. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(1). doi:10.24242/jclis.v3i1.137

Friday, June 12, 2020

Koopman, C. (2019). How we became our data: A genealogy of the informational person. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226626611.001.0001

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Friday, June 5, 2020

Koopman, C. (2019). How we became our data: A genealogy of the informational person. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226626611.001.0001

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Friday, May 29, 2020

Two more chapter's from Melanie's book in progress.

Friday, May 15, 2020

Gilbert, J. (2014). Common ground: Democracy and collectivity in an age of individualism. London: Pluto Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183p7m6

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Friday, May 8, 2020

Gilbert, J. (2014). Common ground: Democracy and collectivity in an age of individualism. London: Pluto Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183p7m6

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Friday, May 1, 2020

Bucher, T. (2020). Nothing to disconnect from? Being singular plural in an age of machine learning. Media, Culture & Society, 42(4). doi:10.1177/0163443720914028
Nancy, J.-L. (2000). Being singular plural. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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Friday, April 17, 2020

Polt, R. (2019). Time and trauma: Thinking through Heidegger in the thirties. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

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Friday, April 10, 2020

Polt, R. (2019). Time and trauma: Thinking through Heidegger in the thirties. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

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Friday, April 3, 2020

Ullman, E. (2010). Close to the machine: Technophilia and its discontents. San Francisco: City Lights.

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Stevenson, M., & Helmond, A. (2020). Legacy systems: Internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten. Internet Histories, 4(1). doi:10.1080/24701475.2020.1725854

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Friday, March 20, 2020

No meeting.

Friday, March 13, 2020

Mirowski, P., & Nik-Khah, E. (2017). The knowledge we have lost in information: The history of information in modern economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Friday, March 6, 2020

No meeting.

Friday, February 28, 2020

Roth, A. (2015). Who gets what and why: The new economics of matchmaking and market design. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Lash, S., Dragos, B., & Mirowski, P. (2016). An interview with Philip Mirowski. Theory, Culture & Society, 33(6), 123–140. doi:10.1177/0263276415623063

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Friday, February 21, 2020

For today we will read two new chapters from Melanie's book-in-progress.

Friday, February 14, 2020

Escobar, A. (2018). Design for Transitions. In Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822371816-006
Escobar, A. (2018). Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal. In Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822371816-007

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Escobar, A. (2018). Introduction. In Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822371816-001
Escobar, A. (2018). In the Background of Our Culture: Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, and Relationality. In Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822371816-004

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Friday, January 31, 2020

Hui, Y. (2019). Organizing Inorganic. In Recursivity and Contingency. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Rieder, B., Matamoros Fernández, A., & Coromina, Ò. (2018). From ranking algorithms to ‘ranking cultures’: Investigating the modulation of visibility in YouTube search results. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 24(1), 50–68. doi:10.1177/1354856517736982
Anderson, P., Chartier, T., & Langville, A. (2019). The rankability of data. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 1(1), 643–646. doi:10.1137/18M1183595

Friday, January 17, 2020

Elliott Hauser will give a talk on "How Systems Make It So: Algorithms, Information, and Truth."

Friday, November 22, 2019

Garfinkel, H. (2008). Toward a Sociological Theory of Information. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Orr, J. (1996). Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

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Friday, November 1, 2019

Canguilhem, G. (2010). Knowledge of Life. New York: Fordham University Press.

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Friday, October 25, 2019

Sack, W. (2019). The Software Arts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Friday, October 18, 2019

Sack, W. (2019). The Software Arts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Friday, October 4, 2019

Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data. New Left Review, (116/117). Retrieved from https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism.

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Friday, September 27, 2019

No meeting.

Friday, September 20, 2019

Amoore, L., & Piotukh, V. (2015). Life beyond big data: governing with little analytics. Economy and Society, 44(3), 341–366. doi:10.1080/03085147.2015.1043793

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Friday, September 13, 2019

Lyman, P. (1995). What is computer literacy and what is its place in liberal education? Liberal Education, 81(3), 4–15.

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Friday, September 6, 2019

No meeting; Patrick and Ryan went to 4S

Friday, August 30, 2019

Mackenzie, A. (2018). Personalization and probabilities: Impersonal propensities in online grocery shopping. Big Data & Society, 1–15. doi:10.1177/2053951718778310

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Friday, August 23, 2019

Katai, O., Minamizono, K., Shiose, T., & Kawakami, H. (2007). System design of ‘“Ba”’-like stages for improvisational acts via Leibnizian space–time and Peirce’s existential graph concepts. AI & Society, 22(2), 101–112. doi:10.1007/s00146-007-0125-2

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Journals

Friday, May 24, 2019

Iliadis, A. (2019). The Tower of Babel Problem: Making Data Make Sense with Basic Formal Ontology. Online Information Review. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3326315

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Friday, May 17, 2019

Shaw, R. (2019). The Missing Profession: Toward an Institution of Critical Technical Practice. In Proceedings of CoLIS: 10th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ribes, D. (2019). STS, Meet Data Science, Once Again. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 44(3), 514–539. doi:10.1177/0162243918798899

Friday, May 10, 2019

Mackenzie, A. (2002). Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed. London: Continuum.
Styhre, A. (2010). The Concept Of Transduction And Its Use In Organization Studies. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 12(3), 115–131.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Friday, April 19, 2019

Oyama, S. (2000). The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

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Friday, April 12, 2019

Iliadis, A. (2013). Informational Ontology: The Meaning of Gilbert Simondon’s Concept of Individuation. Communication +1, 2(1). doi:10.7275/R59884XW

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Journals

Friday, April 5, 2019

Missing citation

Keyes, O., Hoy, J., & Drouhard, M. (2019). Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/3290605.3300569

Friday, March 22, 2019

Lury, C., & Wakeford, N. (Eds.). (2014). Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Friday, February 22, 2019

SILS PhD student admit day - no meeting.

Friday, February 15, 2019

Grimmelmann, J. (2019). All Smart Contracts Are Ambiguous. Penn Journal of Law and Innovation. Retrieved from https://ssrn.com/abstract=3315703.

Friday, February 8, 2019

von Foerster, H., & Poerksen, B. (2002). Perspectives in Practice. In Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics (pp. 65–100). New York: Kluwer Academic.
von Foerster, H., & Poerksen, B. (2002). Cybernetics. In Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics (pp. 101–116). New York: Kluwer Academic.
Clarke, B., & Hansen, M. B. N. (2009). Introduction: Neocybernetic Emergence. In B. Clarke & M. B. N. Hansen (Eds.), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (pp. 1–25). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822391388-001
Clarke, B. (2009). Heinz von Foerster’s Demons: The Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory. In B. Clarke & M. B. N. Hansen (Eds.), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (pp. 34–61). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822391388-003

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Friday, February 1, 2019

Becker, H. S. (1982). Art worlds and collective activity. In Art Worlds (pp. 1–39). Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Friday, January 25, 2019

Spencer-Brown, G. (1969). Laws of Form. London: Allen & Unwin.

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Friday, January 18, 2019

von Foerster, H., & Poerksen, B. (2002). Images of Reality. In Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics (pp. 17–63). New York: Kluwer Academic.
Clarke, B., & Hansen, M. B. N. (2009). Introduction: Neocybernetic Emergence. In B. Clarke & M. B. N. Hansen (Eds.), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (pp. 1–25). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822391388-001
Clarke, B. (2009). Heinz von Foerster’s Demons: The Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory. In B. Clarke & M. B. N. Hansen (Eds.), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (pp. 34–61). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822391388-003

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Friday, January 11, 2019

Fazi, M. B. (2019). Digital Aesthetics: The Discrete and the Continuous. Theory, Culture & Society, 36(1), 3–26. doi:10.1177/0263276418770243

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Friday, December 21, 2018

Bernstein, M. (2018). Links: Exercises In Style. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Studies (pp. 5–11). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/3240431.3240433

Friday, December 14, 2018

Elliott's paper “Enduring Ephemerality in Temporal Infrastructure”

Friday, December 7, 2018

Lee, D., Robinson, L., & Bawden, D. (2018). Modeling the relationship between scientific and bibliographic classification for music. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(3). doi:10.1002/asi.24120

Friday, November 30, 2018

Melanie’s recent CHI submission

Friday, November 23, 2018

Thanksgiving - no meeting

Friday, November 16, 2018

Lots of people traveling - no meeting

Friday, November 9, 2018

Patrick’s paper on Florilegia for the Future of Scholarly Publishing workshop post-proceedings
De Marco, M., & Sorrentino, M. (2007). Sowing the seeds of IS cultivation in public service organisations. Journal of Information Technology, 22(2), 184–194. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000070

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Friday, November 2, 2018

Center for Faculty Excellence event - no meeting

Friday, October 26, 2018

Ingold, T. (2007). Lines: A brief history. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Friday, October 19, 2018

Fall break - no meeting

Friday, October 12, 2018

McLuhan, M., Papanek, V. J., Bessinger, J. B., Polanyi, K., Hollis, C. C., Hogg, D., & Jones, J. (1967). Verbi-voco-visual Explorations. New York: Something Else Press.

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Friday, October 5, 2018

Stoler, A. L. (2009). Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

People

Friday, September 28, 2018

No meeting due to 5-Minute Madness.

Friday, September 21, 2018

Fletcher-Watson, S., De Jaegher, H., van Dijk, J., Frauenberger, C., Magnée, M., & Ye, J. (2018). Diversity Computing. Interactions, 25(5), 28–33. doi:10.1145/3243461

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Friday, September 14, 2018

No meeting due to Hurricane Florence.

Friday, September 7, 2018

Let Us Become Radio Mechanics. (2002). In Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (pp. 161–192). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Friday, August 31, 2018

No meeting.

Friday, August 24, 2018

Language as Asphalt. (2002). In Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (pp. 1–42). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Friday, August 17, 2018

No meeting.

Friday, August 10, 2018

Law, J., & Lien, M. E. (2013). Slippery: Field notes in empirical ontology. Social Studies of Science, 43(3), 363–378. doi:10.1177/0306312712456947

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Friday, August 3, 2018

Thomas, N. (2018). Becoming-Social in a Networked Age. Abingdon: Routledge.
Grossberg, L., & Behrenshausen, B. (2016). Cultural Studies and Deleuze-Guattari, Part 2: From Affect to Conjunctures. Cultural Studies, 30(6), 1001–1028. doi:10.1080/09502386.2016.1173476

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Friday, July 20, 2018

Thomas, N. (2018). Becoming-Social in a Networked Age. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Friday, July 13, 2018

Thomas, N. (2018). Becoming-Social in a Networked Age. Abingdon: Routledge.
Smith, D. W. (2011). Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Towards an Immanent Theory of Ethics. In N. Jun & D. W. Smith (Eds.), Deleuze and Ethics (pp. 123–140). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641178.001.0001

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Friday, July 6, 2018

Thomas, N. (2018). Becoming-Social in a Networked Age. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Friday, June 15, 2018

Thomas, N. (2018). Becoming-Social in a Networked Age. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Friday, June 8, 2018

Ribes, D. (2017). Notes on the Concept of Data Interoperability: Cases from an Ecology of AIDS Research Infrastructures. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998344

Friday, June 1, 2018

Patrick’s application to the CSCW Doctoral Consortium
Benardou, A., Champion, E., Dallas, C., & Hughes, L. M. (2017). Introduction: a critique of digital practices and research infrastructures. In A. Benardou, E. Champion, C. Dallas, & L. M. Hughes (Eds.), Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (pp. 1–14). Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315575278

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Friday, May 25, 2018

Stevenson, M. (2016). Rethinking the participatory web: A history of HotWired’s “new publishing paradigm,” 1994–1997. New Media & Society, 18(7), 1331–1346. doi:10.1177/1461444814555950

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Friday, May 18, 2018

Irani, L. (2018). “Design Thinking”: Defending Silicon Valley at the Apex of Global Labor Hierarchies. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(1), 1–19. doi:10.28968/cftt.v4i1.243

Friday, May 4, 2018

Salter, C. (2015). Alien agency: experimental encounters with art in the making. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Friday, April 27, 2018

Mackenzie, A. (2017). Machine learners: archaeology of a data practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Packer, B., Halpern, Y., Guajardo-Céspedes, M., & Mitchell, M. (2018). Text embedding models contain bias. Here’s why that matters. Google Developers Blog. Retrieved from https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html.

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Friday, April 20, 2018

Tennis, J. T. (2013). Ethos and ideology of knowledge organization: toward precepts for an engaged knowledge organization. Knowledge Organization, 40(1), 42–49. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1773/37978.

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Friday, April 13, 2018

Friday, April 6, 2018

van Doorn, N. (2017). Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the ‘on-demand’ economy. Information, Communcation, & Society, 20(6), 898–914. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2017.1294194

Friday, March 30, 2018

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press.
Noble, S. U., & Roberts, S. T. (2017). Out of the Black Box. Educause Review. Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/3/out-of-the-black-box.

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Friday, March 23, 2018

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press.

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Friday, March 16, 2018

Pickering, A. (1995). The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Waldstein, M. (2008). The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics. In A. Pickering & K. Guzik (Eds.), The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822390107-010

Friday, March 9, 2018

Harris, D. R. (2015). Modeling Reusable and Interoperable Faceted Browsing Systems with Category Theory. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (pp. 388–395). Piscataway: IEEE. doi:10.1109/IRI.2015.65

Friday, March 2, 2018

No meeting.

Friday, February 23, 2018

Naur, P. (1992). Computing, a human activity. New York: ACM.

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Friday, February 16, 2018

Russell, A. L. (2014). Open standards and the digital age. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139856553

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Friday, February 9, 2018

Miles, A. (2001). Hypertext structure as the evenyt of connection. In Proceedings of the twelfth annual ACM conference on Hypertext (pp. 61–68). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/504216.504236

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Friday, February 2, 2018

No meeting; in the afternoon go to a talk at Duke by Leif Weatherby on Data Capital: Hayek, Cybernetics, and German Idealism.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Gorichanaz, T., & Latham, K. F. (2016). Document phenomenology: a framework for holistic analysis. Journal of Documentation, 72(6), 1114–1133. doi:10.1108/JD-01-2016-0007

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Friday, January 12, 2018

Bratton, B. H. (2016). The stack: On software and sovereignty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262029575.001.0001

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Friday, January 5, 2018

Alcoff, L. M. (1997). Immanent  Truth. Science in Context, 10(1), 97–112. doi:10.1017/S0269889700002556

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Friday, December 15, 2017

Lynch, C. (2017). Stewardship in the “Age of Algorithms.” First Monday, 22(12). doi:10.5210/fm.v22i12.8097

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Friday, December 8, 2017

Tsing, A. L. (2015). The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400873548

Friday, November 10, 2017

Simmel, G. (2015). On Art Exhibitions. Theory, Culture & Society, 32(1), 87–92. doi:10.1177/0263276414531052
Simmel, G. (1950). The Sociology of Georg Simmel. (K. H. Wolff, Ed.). Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press.

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Friday, November 3, 2017

Dörk, M., Comber, R., & Dade-Robertson, M. (2014). Monadic exploration: seeing the whole through its parts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14) (pp. 1535–1544). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/2556288.2557083
Sack, W. (2000). Conversation Map: An Interface for Very Large-Scale Conversations. Journal of Management Information Systems, 17(3), 73–92. doi:10.1080/07421222.2000.11045652

Friday, October 27, 2017

Bowers, J. M. (1991). The Janus Faces of Design: Some Critical Questions for CSCW. In J. M. Bowers & S. D. Benford (Eds.), Studies in computer supported cooperative work (pp. 333–350). Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co.
Healy, K. (2017). Fuck Nuance. Sociological Theory, 35(2), 118–127. doi:10.1177/0735275117709046

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Friday, October 13, 2017

Losee, R. (2015). Thesaurus structure, descriptive parameters, and scale. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(9), 2156–2165. doi:10.1002/asi.23544

Friday, October 6, 2017

Levine, C. (2015). Forms: Whole, rhythm, hierarchy, network. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Friday, September 29, 2017

Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016). Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 22(1), 35–52. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12180

Friday, September 22, 2017

Wittkower, D. E. (2016). Principles of anti-discriminatory design. In 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS 2016). Piscataway: IEEE. doi:10.1109/ETHICS.2016.7560055
Gibson, J. J. (2015). The ecological approach to visual perception. New York: Psychology Press. doi:10.4324/9781315740218

Friday, September 15, 2017

Bernstein, M., Bolter, J. D., Joyce, M., & Mylonas, E. (1991). Architectures for volatile hypertext. In Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext (pp. 243–260). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/122974.122999

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Friday, September 8, 2017

Boland, R. J., Jr., & Lyytinen, K. (2017). The limits to language in doing systems design. European Journal of Information Systems, 26(3), 248–259. doi:10.1057/s41303-017-0043-4

Friday, September 1, 2017

Emerson, L. (2014). Reading writing interfaces: From the digital to the bookbound. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Friday, August 25, 2017

Daston, L. (2017). Algorithms before computers: Patterns, recipes, and rules [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqoSMWnWTwA.

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Friday, August 18, 2017

Tenen, D. (2017). Plain text: The poetics of computation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

People

Friday, July 28, 2017

Siegert, B. (2014). Cultural techniques: Grids, filters, doors, and other articulations of the real. New York: Fordham University Press.

Friday, July 21, 2017

Siegert, B. (2014). Cultural techniques: Grids, filters, doors, and other articulations of the real. New York: Fordham University Press.

Friday, July 7, 2017

Abbate, J. (2017). What and where is the Internet? (Re)defining Internet histories. Internet Histories, 1(1–2), 8–14. doi:10.1080/24701475.2017.1305836
Turner, F. (2017). Can we write a cultural history of the Internet? If so, how? Internet Histories, 1(1–2), 39–46. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2017.1307540.

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Missing citation

Friday, June 23, 2017

Missing citation

Friday, June 9, 2017

Nofre, D., Priestley, M., & Alberts, G. (2014). When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950–1960. Technology and Culture, 55(1). doi:10.1353/tech.2014.0031

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Friday, June 2, 2017

Ciborra, C. (2004). The labyrinths of information: Challenging the wisdom of systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275267.001.0001

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Friday, May 26, 2017

Draft of Debbie's paper: “Problematizing metadata”

Friday, May 19, 2017

Ciborra, C. (2004). The labyrinths of information: Challenging the wisdom of systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275267.001.0001

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Friday, May 12, 2017

No meeting: end-of-semester institutional collapse

Friday, May 5, 2017

Dreyfus, H. L. (2007). Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian. Artificial Intelligence, 171(18), 1137–1160. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2007.10.012

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Friday, April 28, 2017

Flynn, P. (1997). W[h]ither the web? The extension or replacement of HTML. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(7), 614–621. doi:10.1002(SICI)1097-4571(199707)48:7#60;614:AID-ASI8#62;3.0.CO;2-W

Friday, April 21, 2017

Friday, April 14, 2017

Stenner, P. (2016). On standards and values: Between finite actuality and infinite possibility. Theory & Psychology, 26(2), 144–162. doi:10.1177/0959354316630619

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Friday, March 31, 2017

Dennett, D., & Cantwell Smith, B. (2002). Brian Cantwell Smith on evolution, objectivity, and intentionality. In H. Clapin (Ed.), Philosophy of Mental Representation (pp. 222–292). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Friday, March 24, 2017

Bratus, S., Locasto, M. E., Patterson, M. L., Sassaman, L., & Shubina, A. (2011). Exploit Programming: From Buffer Overflows to “Weird Machines” and Theory of Computation. ;;Login: The USENIX Magazine, 36(6). Retrieved from https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/december-2011-volume-36-number-6/exploit-programming-buffer-overflows-weird.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Hayles, N. K. (2016). Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions. Critical Inquiry, 43(1), 32–55. doi:10.1086/688293

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Passi, S., & Jackson, S. (2017). Data Vision: Learning to See Through Algorithmic Abstraction. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 2436–2447). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998331

Friday, March 3, 2017

Smith, B. H. (2016). What Was “Close Reading”? A Century of Method in Literary Studies. The Minnesota Review, 2016(87), 57–75. doi:10.1215/00265667-3630844
Feinberg, M. (2017). Reading databases: slow information interactions beyond the retrieval paradigm. Journal of Documentation, 73(2), 336–356. doi:10.1108/JD-03-2016-0030

Friday, February 17, 2017

Cope, J. (2017). Four Theses for Critical Library and Information Studies: A Manifesto. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(1). doi:10.24242/jclis.v1i1.30
Gorichanaz, T. (2017). Minting the Obverse: Library and Information Studies as a One-Sided Coin. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(1). doi:10.24242/jclis.v1i1.7

Friday, February 10, 2017

Community check-in: a chance to tell everyone what you've been working on, your recent successes, your terrible setbacks

Friday, February 3, 2017

No meeting-- attend nlp4arc

Friday, January 27, 2017

Robles-Anderson, E., & Svensson, P. (2016). “One damn slide after another”: PowerPoint at every occasion for speech. Computational Culture, 1(5).

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Friday, January 13, 2017

Patrick's syllabus for INLS 740 (Digital Libraries)

Friday, December 9, 2016

Holmes, B. (2002). The flexible personality: For a new cultural critique. Transversals. Retrieved from http://eipcp.net/transversal/1106/holmes/en.
Rose, N. (1999). Governing the soul: the shaping of the private self. London: Free Association Books.

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Friday, December 2, 2016

Freeman, J. (2013). The Tyranny of Structurelessness. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 41(3), 231–246. doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0072
Spade, D. (2013). Being Together, After Nonprofitization. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 41(3), 247–252. doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0077
Báez, J. (2013). Structurelessness 2.0. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 41(3), 253–256. doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0082
Moore, D. L. (2013). Structurelessness, Structure, and Queer Movements. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 41(3), 257–260. doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0087

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Friday, November 18, 2016

Agre, P. E. (1994). Surveillance and capture: Two models of privacy. The Information Society, 10(2), 101–127. doi:10.1080/01972243.1994.9960162
Mai, J.-E. (2016). Big data privacy: The datafication of personal information. The Information Society, 32(3), 192–199. doi:10.1080/01972243.2016.1153010

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Friday, November 11, 2016

Winograd, T. (1987). A Language/Action Perspective on the Design of Cooperative Work. Human Computer Interaction, 3(1), 3–30. doi:10.1207/s15327051hci0301_2
Suchman, L. (1993). Do categories have politics? Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2(3), 177–190. doi:10.1007/BF00749015
Winograd, T. (1993). Categories, disciplines, and social coordination. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2(3), 191–197. doi:10.1007/BF00749016
Agre, P. E. (1994). Accountability and discipline: A comment on Suchman and Winograd. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 31–35. doi:10.1007/BF01305840
Button, G. (1994). What’s wrong with speech-act theory. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 39–42. doi:10.1007/BF01305842
Randall, D. W. (1994). A comment on Lucy Suchman’s “Do categories have politics?” Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 47–50. doi:10.1007/BF01305844
Curtis, B. (1994). Can speech acts walk the talk? Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 61–64. doi:10.1007/BF01305847
Lynch, M. (1994). On making explicit. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 65–68. doi:10.1007/BF01305848
Bogen, D. (1994). “Do Winograd and Flores have politics?” Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 79–83. doi:10.1007/BF01305851
Suchman, L. (1994). Speech acts and voices: Response to Winograd et al. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3(1), 85–95. doi:10.1007/BF01305852

Friday, November 4, 2016

Genosko, G. (2008). A-signifying semiotics. Public Journal of Semiotics, 2(1). Retrieved from http://journals.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/pjos/article/view/8822.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

Marcus, S., Love, H., & Best, S. (2016). Building a Better Description. Representations, 135(1), 1–21. doi:10.1525/rep.2016.135.1.1

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Journals

Friday, October 14, 2016

Parikka, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816695515.001.0001

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Friday, October 7, 2016

Haraway, D. (2016). Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene. E-Flux, 75. Retrieved from http://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene-chthulucene/.

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Journals

Friday, September 30, 2016

Hui, Y. (2016). On the Existence of Digital Objects. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816695515.001.0001

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Friday, September 23, 2016

Kreiss, D., Finn, M., & Turner, F. (2011). The limits of peer production: Some reminders from Max Weber for the network society. New Media & Society, 13(2), 243–259. doi:10.1177/1461444810370951

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Friday, September 16, 2016

Verhoeven, D. (2014). Doing the sheep good: facilitating engagement in digital humanities and creative arts research. Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories, 206–220. Retrieved from http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30070005.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Furner, J. (2016). “Data”: The data. In M. Kelly & J. Bielby (Eds.), Information Cultures in the Digital Age (pp. 287–306). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-14681-8_17

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Friday, September 2, 2016

Plantin, J.-C., Lagoze, C., Edwards, P. N., & Sandvig, C. (2016). Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook. New Media & Society. doi:10.1177/1461444816661553

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Friday, August 26, 2016

Draft of Melanie's paper, “A design perspective on data”

Friday, August 5, 2016

Rouvroy, A. (2011). Technology, virtuality and utopia: Governmentality in an age of autonomic computing. In M. Hildebrandt & A. Rouvroy (Eds.), Law, human agency and autonomic computing: the philosophy of law meets the philosophy of technology. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Friday, July 29, 2016

Chun, W. H. K. (2016). Big Data as Drama. ELH, 83(2), 363–382. doi:10.1353/elh.2016.0011

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Journals

Friday, July 15, 2016

Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(3), 801–831. doi:10.1086/345321

Friday, July 8, 2016

Leahu, L. (2016). Ontological Surprises: A Relational Perspective on Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 182–186). New York: ACM. doi:10.1145/2901790.2901840

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Friday, July 1, 2016

Medina, E. (2011). Introduction: Political and Technological Visions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Feenberg, A. (2015). Lukács’s Theory of Reification and Contemporary Social Movements. Rethinking Marxism, 27(4), 490–507. doi:10.1080/08935696.2015.1076968

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Friday, June 17, 2016

Shavit, A., & Griesemer, J. R. (2011). Transforming objects into data: how minute technicalities of recording “species location” entrench a basic challenge for biodiversity. In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (Eds.), Science in the context of application: Methodological change, conceptual transformation, cultural reorientation. Dordrecht: Springer.

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Star, S. L., & Griesemer, J. R. (1989). Institutional Ecology, “Translations” and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science, 19(3), 387–420. doi:10.1177/030631289019003001
Griesemer, J. R. (2015). Sharing Spaces, Crossing Boundaries. In G. C. Bowker, S. Timmermans, A. E. Clarke, & E. Balka (Eds.), Boundary objects and beyond: working with Leigh Star (pp. 201–218). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Galey, A., & Ruecker, S. (2010). How a prototype argues. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25(4), 405–424. doi:10.1093/llc/fqq021

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Rieder, B. (2017). Scrutinizing an algorithmic technique: the Bayes classifier as interested reading of reality. Information, Communcation, & Society, 20(1), 100–117. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2016.1181195

Friday, May 20, 2016

Monteiro, E., Pollock, N., Hanseth, O., & Williams, R. (2012). From Artefacts to Infrastructures. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 22(4–6), 575–607. doi:10.1007/s10606-012-9167-1

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Friday, April 22, 2016

Think of possible topics for an ORG study

Friday, April 15, 2016

Fidler, B., & Acker, A. (2017). Metadata, infrastructure, and computer-mediated communication in historical perspective. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(2), 412–422. doi:10.1002/asi.23660

Friday, April 1, 2016

Think of possible topics for an ORG study

Friday, March 25, 2016

Draft of Melanie's paper, “The value of discernment”

Friday, March 4, 2016

Field trip: Attend CHAT Festival

Friday, February 26, 2016

Geiger, R. S., & Ribes, D. (2011). Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices. In Proceedings of the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 1–10). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2011.455

Friday, February 19, 2016

Fairthorne, R. A. (1974). Temporal structure in bibliographic classification. In Conceptual Basis of the Classification of Knowledge: Proceedings of the Ottawa Conference on the Conceptual Basis of the Classification of Knowledge (pp. 404–415). Pullach, Germany: Verlag Dokumentation.

Friday, February 12, 2016

Star, S. L. (1995). The Politics of Formal Representation: Wizards, Gurus, and Organizational Complexity. In S. L. Star (Ed.), Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology (pp. 88–118). Albany: State University of New York Press.

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Friday, October 2, 2015

Wobbrock, J. O., Ko, A. J., & Kientz, J. A. (2009). Reflections on the Future of iSchools from Inspired Junior Faculty. Interactions, 16(5), 69–71. doi:10.1145/1572626.1572641

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Friday, September 25, 2015

Blair, A. (2004). Note Taking as an Art of Transmission. Critical Inquiry, 31(1), 85–107. doi:10.1086/427303

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Friday, September 18, 2015

Acker, A. (2015). Toward a Hermeneutics of Data. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 37(3), 70–75. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2015.68

Friday, September 11, 2015

Draft of Melanie's paper for CHI

Friday, September 4, 2015

Day, R. E. (2014). Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Jacob's Knowledge Organization literature review.
Latour, B., Jensen, P., Venturini, T., Grauwin, S., & Boullier, D. (2012). ‘The whole is always smaller than its parts’ – a digital test of Gabriel Tardes’ monads. The British Journal of Sociology, 63(4), 590–615. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01428.x

Monday, August 17, 2015

Debbie and Jacob's DCMI poster analyzing metadata job keywords
Clark, A. (2016). Happy Couplings: Emergence and Explanatory Interlock. In M. Kelly & J. Bielby (Eds.), Information Cultures in the Digital Age (pp. 262–281). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Melanie's syllabus for INLS720
Hjørland, B. (2015). Classical databases and knowledge organization: A case for boolean retrieval and human decision-making during searches. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(8), 1559–1575. doi:10.1002/asi.23250

Friday, July 24, 2015

Patrick's article on “Periodo assertion as nanopublication” for PeerJ Computer Science