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Every Breath You Take, I’ll Be Watching You. Explicit Surveillance and Algorithmic Countersurveillance in Healthcare
Full text linkIn this chapter we explore resistance practices applied to algorithmic surveillance in the health domain, with a specific focus on the Italian contact-tracing app “Immuni” specifically developed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Algorithmic resistance is indeed a specific reac- tion against the power of algorithms as largely described in the literature (Velkova & Kaun, 2021). Although localised within the Italian context, we believe that the Immuni app is a good case to reflect on some inter- esting aspects since it entails some key features of algorithmic resistance in general and introduces an up-to-date case study for health control
Performing sociotechnical environments: intersections of bodies, knowledge, artefacts and politics
No full textEvery Breath You Take, I’ll Be Watching You. Explicit Surveillance and Algorithmic Countersurveillance in Healthcare
No full textThis book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book intersects topics connected to technoscientific innovation and specifically digital transformation for health care. By offering different attempts of deconstructing algorithmic technologies, the book provides a landmark reference for those interested in undertaking research focused on areas connected to algorithmic decision-making for health care. The book will be an invaluable reference for scholars interested in the STS debate and related fields (e.g.,human–computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, participatory design, and sociology of health and medicine). This book responds to a growing interest in the application of algorithms’ to local and national care systems. The book balances theoretical and empirical analysis bringing together experienced and early-career scholars.
This book will be of interest to researchers in STS as well as healthcare professionals and managers as some of the topics covered help to critically reconsider some facets of planning through algorithmic technologies supporting the practice of healthcare and decision-making
LBMGs and Boundary Objects. Negotiation of Meaning between Real and Unreal
No full textThe paper reports on a study grounded on higher education didactic experiences involving around 180 BSc students in the design of Location Based Mobile Games that mix digital contents and physical artefacts.
By means of data gleaned from a three-year didactic experience, we challenge the extant assumption that LBMGs should exclusively rely on the digital/mobile component. Looking at LBMGs as situated experiences, we investigate the relevant role and agency of physical elements: How do they interact with the space? With players? How do they affect players’ in-game behaviours? And players’ sociality?
We focus on the agency of the above mentioned physical objects, and their ability to trigger players’ actions and to persuade them to behave according to designers’ expectancies. We analyse how these objects translate the fictional world into a space intertwined with the real one, rather than simply overlapped, and how they foster meaning making and context awareness acting as boundary objects that activate negotiations of meaning between real and “unreal”
La (in)differenza di genere nella sociomaterialità della scuola steineriana: un’esperienza di ricerca
No full textLa scuola primaria è un luogo tecnologicamente denso, costituito da materiali di uso comune e da materiali specifici per l’apprendimento. Inoltre, nello spazio scolastico attori umani e non-umani si combinano articolando e disarticolando i confini tra i generi.
Il contributo sviluppa la questione della costruzione sociomateriale del genere a partire dai risultati di una ricerca etnografica svolta in una scuola steineriana italiana. In particolare, in esso si intende mostrare le peculiari modalità attraverso cui gli oggetti e le pratiche quotidiane danno vita a dei processi educativi che configurano materialmente il genere. Ciò che emerge dalla ricerca è che la materialità agente nella scuola steineriana non sembra strutturare rigidamente le identità di genere, ma le mette in scena in modo fluido e nomadico
Designing digital encounters and their agency on users. A case study
No full textThis paper analyses the interactive exhibit “Leonardo racconta Leonardo. Milano, vita, natura” (Leonardo Plays Leonardo. Milan, Life, Nature), an installation located in the cloister of Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, about Leonardo da Vinci and his Milanese period. The installation allows visitors to meet a life-sized simulated hologram of the Master who tells stories about his life, the years he spent in Milan and his relationship with nature. The project is set in the field of HCI, looking at the world of digital encounters and interactive systems based on embodied interaction. We investigate if and how the designers’ choices succeeded in achieving the stated aims and persuading people to behave accordingly. Relying on user tests and direct observation, we discuss how the interactive exhibit and the digital Leonardo affected visitors’ behaviour, effectively capturing their attention and fostering interaction. Furthermore, we examine how visitors perceived the digital character and the gestures he, directly or indirectly, asked them to perform to trigger actions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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