Message posted on 13/01/2022
EASST2022, CfP open panel 54, "Envisioning coded futures: Algorithmically shaped presents and futures of human-machine-relationships"
Dear All, =20 We are organizing a panel for the EASST2022 conference in July and = warmly invite you to join our discussion! Our panel is titled: "Envisioning = coded futures: Algorithmically shaped presents and futures of human-machine-relationships". Please find the description of the panel below. =20 If you are interested, please submit directly to our panel on the = conference website: https://easst2022.org/openpanel.asp, allocating with panel nr. = 54. =20 Paper abstracts are due by February 1st. If you have any questions, = please don't hesitate to contact us! =20 Best wishes, =20 Libu=B9e Vep=F8ek, Maximilian Jablonowski, and Lina Franken =20 =20 EASST2022 "Politics of technoscientific futures" Madrid July 6-9, 2022 =20 Open Panel Nr. 54: Envisioning coded futures: Algorithmically shaped presents and futures = of human-machine-relationships =20 Interacting with the world today increasingly means dealing with sociotechnical systems that fundamentally rely on binary code. Computer = code shapes ways of communication and travel, the very bedrock of the global economy and related infrastructures. While code (at least today) is = written by humans or human collective practices, there already exist attempts to build AI systems that take over coding themselves, moving today's discussions on coded sociotechnical assemblages and human-machine relationships to the next level. At the same time these practices of envisioning influence and shape today's politics of the future. =20 With sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff/Kim 2009) not only questions = of what is possible, but also visions of "how life ought, or ought not, to = be lived" (Jasanoff 2015: 4) are being discussed. In the center of this we = find questions on what human-machine relationships should look like and how decision-making power should be distributed across these sociotechnical systems. Expert think-tanks, venture capital, industry, lobby groups or consulting agencies play important roles in steering today's debates of = the future coalescing with buzzwords such as digital capitalism, industry = 4.0, algorithmic power and surveillance capitalism. =20 The prevalence of coded sociotechnical assemblages raises important questions on human-machine-relationships and responsibilities of the = future for STS research, such as: How does computer code shape the inter- and intra-actions of a world in constantly becoming and how will algorithms vice versa be shaped by our own viewpoints and actions? What = does this mean for negotiations of human-machine-relationships of the and for = the future? How do we and will we interact with code-based and algorithmic nonhuman actors? These collaborations and entanglements give rise to changing responsibilities and obligations. How are human biases = reproduced (or even reinforced) within human-machine relationships and = more-than-human coding practices? Which power relations as well as formal and informal ethics are in play here and how is decision-making and control = distributed across sociotechnical systems? On the material level questions of what relevance do (digital) infrastructures of heterogeneous materiality have = in these settings arise. Which socio-spatial configurations will be = engendered and how will human and more-than-human actors move through them? And finally, regarding methodology as well as ethics, how can STS scholars research these infrastructures, spaces and entanglements? =20 The panel will focus on the envisioned, sometimes speculative human-machine-relationships of coded futures. It aims at carving out the possibilities and pitfalls that more-than-human collaborations engender within these relationships. We invite contributions ranging from case studies to theoretical considerations of the future politics and = imaginaries of coded human-machine relationships. =20 Link to panel: = https://easst2022.org/IMAGENES/panelsResultados/054.pdf =20 =20 --- Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Lina Franken Computational Social Sciences Institut f=FCr Soziologie LMU M=FCnchen Konradstr. 6 Raum 301 80801 M=FCnchen E-Mail: lina.franken@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de =20view formatted text
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