Careful Surveillance at Play: Human-Animal Relations and Mobile Media in the Home

Richardson, Ingrid; Hjorth, Larissa; Strengers, Yolande; Balmford, William

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61222-5_9

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“…As Adelman (2017) asserts, however, highly promoted datafication and dataveillance technologies often have many glitches, and fail to achieve the grandiose insights into humans that their promoters promise. There is little recognition in these critical perspectives that people may benefit themselves from such practices, including engaging with digitised information to learn more about themselves and achieve better health, well-being and a feeling of control over their lives (Lupton, 2018, 2019, 2020a), or to care for and support others’ well-being (Hjorth and Lupton, forthcoming; Richardson et al, 2017). In-depth research has demonstrated that rather than passively accepting the affordances offered by technologies for digitising and processing personal information, many people work to create, repair and reinvent their data as they incorporate this information into their everyday routines (Pink et al, 2017; Pink et al, 2018; Lupton, 2018, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Not the Real Me’: Social Imaginaries of Personal Data Profiling

Lupton

2020

Cultural Sociology

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In this article, I present findings from my Data Personas study, in which I invited Australian adults to respond to the stimulus of the ‘data persona’ to help them consider personal data profiling and related algorithmic processing of personal digitised information. The literature on social imaginaries is brought together with vital materialism theory, with a focus on identifying the affective forces, relational connections and agential capacities in participants’ imaginaries and experiences concerning data profiling and related practices now and into the future. The participants were aware of how their personal data were generated from their online engagements, and that commercial and government agencies used these data. However, most people suggested that data profiling was only ever partial, configuring a superficial and static version of themselves. They noted that as people move through their life-course, their identities and bodies are subject to change: dynamic and emergent. While the digital data that are generated about humans are also lively, these data can never fully capture the full vibrancy, fluidity and spontaneity of human experience and behaviour. In these imaginaries, therefore, data personas are figured as simultaneously less-than-human and more-than-human. The implications for understanding and theorising human-personal data relations are discussed.

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confidence: 99%

‘Not the Real Me’: Social Imaginaries of Personal Data Profiling

Lupton

2020

Cultural Sociology

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“…Research has designed interactions to enrich farm animals' physical and mental well-being [28], as well as adapted existing digital technology for captive zoo animals to increase public engagement and understanding [113] by allowing zoo visitors to observe animals interacting with technology familiar to them. Extensive work has also been done on the design of digital technology for working animals [6,43], and the adaption of existing digital technology and algorithms to increase the relationship between humans and their pets [53,58,78,81]. As a result, research on animal-centered technology has built an extensive understanding of how technology might serve animals and the people they interact with.…”

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confidence: 99%

Interspecies information systems

Linden

2021

Requirements Eng

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This article introduces a new class of socio-technical systems, interspecies information systems (IIS) by describing several examples of these systems emerging through the use of commercially available data-driven animal-centered technology. When animal-centered technology, such as pet wearables, cow health monitoring, or even wildlife drones captures animal data and inform humans of actions to take towards animals, interspecies information systems emerge. I discuss the importance of understanding them as information systems rather than isolated technology or technology-mediated interactions, and propose a conceptual model capturing the key components and information flow of a general interspecies information system. I conclude by proposing multiple practical challenges that are faced in the successful design, engineering and use of any IIS where animal data informs human actions.

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“…In this special issue we begin with articles that explore the role of technology around informal and public health discourses , focusing on the role of care as a guiding practice and set of ethical frameworks. The first article, by Andrejevic et al, explores ‘careful surveillance’ – ‘a term that acknowledges the often conflicted and paradoxical relation between caring, watching, guardianship and control’ (Richardson et al, 2017). The authors argue that the relationality between ‘modalities of care and the formal and informal surveillance strategies’ are being transformed by ‘perceptions, practices and attitudes around care-based monitoring, shaped by individual beliefs and attitudes, collective mores and habitudes, and epidemiological and public health knowledges’ during the pandemic.…”

Section: Informal Care and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%