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  • Journal: Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
  • Volume/Issue: 30(1), February 2024
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • Editors: Daniela van Geenen, Karin van Es, Jonathan W. Y. Gray
  • URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/30/1-2
  • Alternative URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/1

    • Content

    Overview

    Special issue on "Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research," exploring the pluralisation of "critical technical practice" from Philip Agre's original formulations in AI research and development to the many ways it has resonated and been taken up by different publications, projects, groups, and communities of practice.

    The introduction analyzes the concept through three lenses: Agre's original formulation, indexed research, and special issue contributions. The contributions are clustered into four overlapping approaches:

    1. Social lives of critique 2. Eliciting criticisms 3. Accounting differently 4. Reflexive making

    What binds them is their recognition and engagement with the fact that technology is culture, and accomplished in and through cooperative social practices.

    Articles in the Special Issue

    1. "Pluralising critical technical practice" — Daniela van Geenen, Karin van Es, Jonathan W. Y. Gray (editorial introduction), DOI: 10.1177/13548565231192105 2. "Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs" — Sam Hind & Tatjana Seitz, DOI: 10.1177/13548565221133248 3. Article by Michael Dieter — (interface critique / digital methods) 4. Article by Jean-Marie John-Mathews, Robin De Mourat, Donato Ricci & Maxime Crépel 5. Article by Anders Koed Madsen 6. "(De)constructing machines as critical technical practice" — Winnie Soon & Pablo R. Velasco, DOI: 10.1177/13548565221148098 7. Article by Mathieu Jacomy & Anders Munk — (network analysis) 8. Article by Jessica Ogden, Edward Summers & Shawn Walker — (web archiving) 9. Article by Urszula Pawlicka-Deger 10. "From critical technical practice to reflexive data science" — Simon Hirsbrunner, Michael Tebbe & Claudia Müller-Birn 11. Article by Bernhard Rieder, Erik Borra & Stijn Peters — (social media tools) 12. "Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice" — Jason Chao, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz & Fernando van der Vlist 13. "Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice" — Daniel Chávez Heras, DOI: 10.1177/13548565231174592 14. Article by Sabine Niederer & Natalia Sanchez Querubin — (climate futures)

    Key Topics

    Machine learning, digital methods, art-based interventions, network analysis, web archiving, social media tools, sensory media, and climate futures.

    Launch Event

    Hybrid event held July 10, 2024, 2-4 PM CEST.

    Notes

  • SAGE website returned 403 when attempting direct fetch; metadata assembled from Public Data Lab announcement and Jonathan Gray's blog.
  • The DOI prefix for all articles in this issue is 10.1177/1354856523...