Feral Screens

Inarticulate Devices

“…We could have pursued any number of alternative modes or materials for addressing our concerns. Indeed, our intention with this paper is not to argue that material exploration is better or worse than others forms of designerly inquiry (indeed, we have engaged with these in other contexts [22,28]). Rather, our point is that while alternative methods might have saved us the specific kind of trouble we encountered in our material explorations with network technology, we would have still needed to go looking for trouble elsewhere.…”

Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values and Practices in Fitness Tracker Design

“…For example, scholars have employed feminist standpoint theory [25] and theorizations of gender performativity [10] to counter traditional notions of objectivity, to demonstrate the value of marginalized positionalities in the field [8,14,27], and to address the need for critical reflexivity and attention to complex understandings of gender in digital and social media [44,53]. Feminist study of sociotechnical systems can be situated within a longer intellectual genealogy of critical work that has included the challenging of established identity models [21,24,26,32], defamiliarization of domestic technologies [3], adoption and appropriation of gender in IT [23], and the operationalization of intimacy and sexuality in HCI [31]. In general, these studies promote interrogation of power, gender, and inequity through reflexivity and the centering the socio-technical needs, desires, values and experiences of diverse users.…”