(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleagues,
We hope this email finds you well. We are pleased to invite you to submit an
abstract to our open panel “Demarcating boundaries of and with data:
Boundary work in the age of datafication” at the STS-Hub 2025 “Diffracting
the Critical” (Berlin, 11-14 March, 2025). The
STS-Hub is a bi-annual conference series that brings together German
STS-organizations and STS-related labs and research groups.
Please see below for the panel abstract.
Abstracts and presentations can be held in either English or German. Please
submit an abstract (max. 200 words) with a short bio (75 words) by 31st
October 2024 by email to yana.boeva[at]sowi.uni-stuttgart.de. Decisions will
be communicated by 15th November.
The conference will take place in-person. Due to technical reasons, there will
be no hybrid options for participation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us. We look
forward to receiving your proposals.
Best regards,
Louis Ravn (University of Copenhagen) & Yana Boeva (University of Stuttgart)
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Demarcating boundaries of and with data: Boundary work in the age of
datafication
Chairs: Louis Ravn & Yana Boeva
Since the initial theorization of boundary work as the “attribution of
selected characteristics to the institution of science” to demarcate it from
“non-science” (Gieryn, 1983: 782), the concept has found widespread use in
STS and beyond. More recently, an emerging body of scholarship on data attends
to the multifaceted ways digital data relate to various practices of
boundary-making. Forms of discursive boundary work have been shown to
demarcate digital data as ontologically distinct from their underpinning
socio-technical apparatuses (Thylstrup et al., 2022), while digital data are
also mobilized to reinforce existing and install new boundaries (Amoore, 2021;
Pelizza & Van Rossem, 2023).
In this open panel, we pursue this conference’s theme of “diffracting the
critical” (Haraway, 1988; Barad, 2007) by asking: How do different modes of
boundary work play out in the age of datafication? To what extent do digital
data continue the legacies of technoscientific boundary work, and how are
digital data productive of new boundary-drawing practices? We invite
contributions that:
• Critically engage with the entanglements between boundary work and
data practices
• Diffract related concepts (e.g. boundary objects, agential cuts) in
relation to data practices
• Explore “boundaries” as a guiding metaphor/concept for digital STS
(Vertesi et al., 2019)
Yana Boeva, PhD
Junior Research Group Leader & Postdoctoral Researcher, University of
Stuttgart
Institute for Social Sciences | Cluster of Excellence "Integrative
Computational Design and Construction for Architecture
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