Discourse, Media, Cultural Techniques: The Complexity of Kittler

Winthrop‐Young, Geoffrey

doi:10.1353/mln.2015.0035

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“…However, as we can see from recent innovative developments in media studies which include software and platform studies, the identification of technical specificity as a core issue in media scholarship is no longer limited to “quirky” European media theory. Perhaps the so-called “Kittler effect” (Winthrop-Young, 2011, pp. 143–144) has influenced this opening up of the humanities to technological methodologies, such as those found in recent discussions of Digital Humanities.…”

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Platform Studies’ Epistemic Threshold

Apperley¹,

Parikka

2015

Games and Culture

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In recent methodological scholarship on digital games, a strong connection is noted between ''platform studies'' and media archaeology. While platform studies has its critics, who primarily lament the limitations of the project, a recent spate of publications in the field suggests considerable dynamism in platform studies as the concept is further developed. This article argues that by examining platform studies from the perspective of media archaeology, it becomes apparent that platform studies establishes an ''epistemic threshold''. Additionally, platform studies is a historical method which both establish continuities and mark breaks with previous platforms and technologies. From the perspective of this threshold, this article explores epistemic questions that arise from how platform studies forms an archive, and how media archaeology can enrich the method's explicit concerns and engagements with technology and culture.

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Platform Studies’ Epistemic Threshold

Apperley¹,

Parikka

2015

Games and Culture

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“…Now cultural techniques as a notion has different meanings connected to different historical periods (see Siegert, 2013; Winthrop-Young, 2013), but here, I am relying on Geoffrey Winthrop-Young’s (2015) recent formulation of cultural techniques asoperative chains composed of actors and technological objects that produce cultural orders and constructs which are subsequently installed as the basis of these operations. At the core of this [.…”

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“The Computer Said So”: On the Ethics, Effectiveness, and Cultural Techniques of Predictive Policing

Karppi

2018

Social Media + Society

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In this paper, I use The New York Times’ debate titled, “Can predictive policing be ethical and effective?” to examine what are seen as the key operations of predictive policing and what impacts they might have in our current culture and society. The debate is substantially focused on the ethics and effectiveness of the computational aspects of predictive policing including the use of data and algorithms to predict individual behaviour or to identify hot spots where crimes might happen. The debate illustrates both the benefits and the problems of using these techniques, and makes a strong stance in favor of human control and governance over predictive policing. Cultural techniques in the paper is used as a framework to discuss human agency and further elaborate how predictive policing is based on operations which have ethical, epistemological, and social consequences.

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“…To label someone a technodeterminist is a bit like saying that he enjoys strangling cute puppies; the depraved wickedness of the action renders further discussion unnecessary.'' 5 The threat of technological determinism, according to Wolf Kittler, ''goes around like a curse frightening students.'' 6 The charge can conjure up a kind of instant consensus about what right-minded people would obviously avoid.…”

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confidence: 99%