Seizing the Digital

Vertesi, Janet

doi:10.17351/ests2016.75

Cited by 4 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 10 publications

(11 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…They assume a certain user or a group of users to exist independently outside of the innovation process. Here, recent STS studies have advanced an approach that does not take publics and citizens' roles for granted but rather investigates them as they are shaped by and through the participatory instruments themselves (Chilvers and Kearnes 2020;Vertesi et al 2017). For instance, Felt and Fochler (2010) analyse the ways in which facilitators of public engagement assign roles and identities to participants while also, crucially, how those very participants appropriate and transform them.…”

Section: Defining Users In Innovation Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation

Lipp

Baudrin

Cuevas

et al. 2022

Science and Public Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Co-creation has become a major concern in science and public policy. It aims to give a more central role to end users in producing (public sector) innovation outcomes. This leads to a new variety of end user roles in innovation activities and poses challenges for both practitioners and policy makers. We offer an in-depth, comparative analysis of such end user roles in three cases of co-creative public sector innovation across Europe. We argue that the definition of particular end user roles is crucial in shaping both the inclusiveness and outcomes of co-creative innovation. We offer a typology of end user roles and their respective limits and potentials with regard to co-creation. Our analysis suggests that, for co-creation to produce useful and legitimate outcomes, the process by which roles are assigned to and negotiated with end users must be part of the co-creative process itself.

show abstract

Section: Defining Users In Innovation Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation

Lipp

Baudrin

Cuevas

et al. 2022

Science and Public Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Digital research projects are more than employing tools and they involve, above all, a responsibility towards cultural heritage, artefacts, history and society. This is why the lab stresses the ‘design first philosophy’ that resonates well with Agre’s sensibility of critical technical practice: ‘According to Agre, design in a critical vein should itself be a form of inquiry into the systematic failures, limitations, and confusions that arise in the design of digital systems’ (Vertesi et al, 2017: 177). Reflective design and critical production approaches are visible in the lab work at the Feasibility document preparation stage where many voices, inquiries, and expectations are accumulated.…”

Section: Feasibility Documents As Critical Structuring Objectsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production

Pawlicka-Deger

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Documents have been increasingly recognised as important objects of investigation in Science and Technology Studies (STS); however, so far, much less attention has been given to the study of documents produced in Digital Humanities. The author proposes therefore to use the method of the ‘STS of documents’ and analyse Feasibility documents that aim to assess technical and design requirements based on research questions and to organise a project workflow. Drawing on the ethnography of King’s Digital Lab, the article investigates Feasibility documents produced by the lab within the Agile-based Software Development Lifecycle framework. The article aims to show that Feasibility documents (1) inform ethnographic work about lab workflow and management and in doing so, are able to capture the interconnectedness of work layers and practices; (2) enable an empirical analysis of digital research projects and the process of translation from research questions, to methods, to technical solutions; (3) are critical structuring objects that structure the research process and relationships between involved actors and are structured by local institutional strategies and decisions. The author conducts a ‘feasibility analysis’ that reveals the project management and development stages: the analytical process (the translation of research questions into technical solutions); the production process (the move from technical and design practices to research answers) and the infrastructure and management process (project workflow and sustainability solutions). Drawing on Agre’s critical technical practice and Digital Humanities’ theories of critical production, the article seeks to shift attention from end-product digital artefacts towards the complex process of their creation, which can unpack a range of social, technological and management issues. In doing so, it also aims to provide a methodological framework for the analysis of documents produced in Digital Humanities that have the potential to unearth new questions about the socio-technical nature of digital production.

show abstract

“…In recent work in the field of STS, CTP has also been taken as a form of ‘inventive engagement’ (Vertesi et al, 2017: 176). If HCI researchers view CTP as a way to bring critical reflection from technology makers and users into design processes, STS researchers discuss CTP as a way to bring ‘STS principles into digital artifacts’, alongside other approaches which aim to ‘accommodate excluded user communities, embody alternate value frameworks, or inspire reflective critique’ (Vertesi et al, 2017: 176).…”

Section: Ctps According To Indexed Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pluralising critical technical practice

van Geenen,

van Es,

Gray

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this special issue, we turn to ideas of and approaches to critical technical practices (CTPs) as entry points to doing critique and doing things critically in digitally mediated cultures and societies. We explore the pluralisation of ‘critical technical practice’, starting from its early formulations in the context of AI research and development (Agre, 1997a, 1997b) to the many ways in which it has resonated and been taken up by different publications, projects, groups, and communities of practice, and what is has come to mean. Agre defined CTP as a situational, practical, and constructive way of working: ‘a technical practice for which critical reflection upon the practice is part of the practice itself’ (1997a: XII). Communities of practice in which the notion has been adopted, adapted, and put to use range from human–computer interaction (HCI) to media art and pedagogy, from science and technology studies (STS) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) to digital humanities, media studies and data studies. This special issue affirms the pluralisation of CTP, and serves as an invitation to (re)consider what it means to use this notion drawing on a wider body of work, including beyond Agre. In this introduction, we review and discuss CTPs according to (1) Agre, (2) indexed research, and (3) contributors to this special issue. We conclude with some questions and considerations for those interested in working with this notion.

show abstract

Seizing the Digital

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation

Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation

Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production

Pluralising critical technical practice

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About