Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process

Tanweer, Anissa; Fiore-Gartland, Brittany; Aragon, C.

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1153125

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“…The materiality of data has been emphasised by Dourish in his discussion of emulation (2016) and by STS researchers (Tanweer et al, 2016) with reference to both software and hardware (Star, 1999). This is significant since it is refers to how people constitute relationships between software and hardware as they improvise to make sense of data.…”

Section: Trust and Uncertainty: Navigating The Temporalities Of Datamentioning

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Data anxieties: Finding trust in everyday digital mess

2018

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Digital data is an increasing and continual presence across the sites, activities and relationships of everyday life. In this article we explore what data presence means for the ways that the everyday is organised, sensed, and anticipated. While digital data studies have demonstrated how data is deeply entangled with the way in which everyday life is lived out and valued, at the same time our relationships with data are riddled with anxieties or small niggles or tricky trade-offs and their use is often chaotic and muddled, part of the inevitable uncertainty about what will happen next. If the presence of data is part of the environments we inhabit, this raises the question of how and why data is valuable to us and what forms of hope and trust enable this value to further develop.

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2018

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“…From this perspective, the algorithm is but one element of the broader socio-technical assemblage in which it is embedded. In my analysis, I combine this analytical approach with theories on the mutual constitution of bodies and technologies in the field of health and telecare (Langstrup 2013, Mol 2000, Oudshoorn 2008, Pols 2012; social studies of self-tracking devices (Kristensen and Ruckenstein 2018, Lomborg et al 2018, Lupton 2013, Sch€ ull 2016; recent studies on bodily sense-making and engagements with data (Lupton 2018, Lupton andMaslen 2018); and studies that have pointed to the fragility and incompleteness of data and algorithms (Jackson 2014, Pink et al 2018, Tanweer et al 2016.…”

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“…, Tanweer et al . ) I illustrate how the algorithmic system needs to be adjusted and creatively ‘repaired’ to build and maintain meaningful connections that may enable a productive relationship between the system and bodies undergoing rehabilitation. I conclude by discussing who or what we should hold accountable for how algorithmic systems come to work in medical practice.…”

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“…Exploring how these agencies are connected together through the three sites, allows us to see how algorithms and their effects are emergent, malleable and contingent, as they are made, negotiated and transformed through various socio-technical relationships. By drawing on recent work on the fragility and incompleteness of data and algorithms (Jackson 2014, Pink et al 2018, Tanweer et al 2016) I illustrate how the algorithmic system needs to be adjusted and creatively 'repaired' to build and maintain meaningful connections that may enable a productive relationship between the system and bodies undergoing rehabilitation. I conclude by discussing who or what we should hold accountable for how algorithmic systems come to work in medical practice.…”

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Algorithmic assemblages of care: imaginaries, epistemologies and repair work

Schwennesen

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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In the past decade, the figure of the algorithm has emerged as a matter of concern in discussions about the current state of the healthcare sector and what it may become. While analytical focus has mainly centred on ‘algorithmic entities’, the paper argues that we have to move our analytical focus towards ‘algorithmic assemblages’, if we are to understand how advanced algorithms will affect health care. Departing from this figure, the paper explores how an algorithmic system, designed to ‘take on’ the role of a physiotherapist in physical rehabilitation programmes in Denmark, was designed and made to work in practice. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork, it is demonstrated that the algorithmic system is a fragile accomplishment and outcome of negotiations between the imaginaries embedded in its design and the ongoing adjustments of IT workers, patients and professionals. Drawing on recent work on the fragility and incompleteness of algorithms, it is suggested that the algorithmic system needs to be creatively ‘repaired’ to build and maintain enabling connections between bodies in‐motion and professionals in arrangements of care. The paper concludes by addressing accountability for the workings of algorithmic systems in medical practice, suggesting that such questions must also be discussed in relation to encounters between algorithmic imaginaries, health professionals and patients, and the various forms of ‘repair work’ needed to enable algorithmic systems to work in practice. Such acts of accountability cannot be understood within an ethics of transparency, but are better thought of as an ethics of ‘response‐ability’, given the need to intervene and engage with the open‐ended outcomes of algorithmic systems.

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“…Database management should be a priority in any field that incorporates the contents of online repositories of knowledge and research. The disconnect between the research goals of the paleoceanographic community and the metadata produced here can be described as a "breakdown" that limits the progress of paleoceanographic research (Tanweer et al, 2016). These breakdowns allow us to self-assess and move forward with insight into best practices.…”

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A database of paleoceanographic sediment cores from the North Pacific, 1951–2016

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Mislan³

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Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract.We assessed sediment coring, data acquisition, and publications from the North Pacific (north of 30 • N) from 1951 to 2016. There are 2134 sediment cores collected by American, French, Japanese, Russian, and international research vessels across the North Pacific (including the Pacific subarctic gyre, Alaskan gyre, Japan margin, and California margin; 1391 cores), the Sea of Okhotsk (271 cores), the Bering Sea (123 cores), and the Sea of Japan (349 cores) reported here. All existing metadata associated with these sediment cores are documented here, including coring date, location, core number, cruise number, water depth, vessel metadata, and coring technology. North Pacific sediment core age models are built with isotope stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, tephrochronology, % opal, color, and lithological proxies. Here, we evaluate the iterative generation of each published age model and provide comprehensive documentation of the dating techniques used, along with sedimentation rates and age ranges. We categorized cores according to the availability of a variety of proxy evidence, including biological (e.g., benthic and planktonic foraminifera assemblages), geochemical (e.g., major trace element concentrations), isotopic (e.g., bulk sediment nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon isotopes), and stratigraphic (e.g., preserved laminations) proxies. This database is a unique resource to the paleoceanographic and paleoclimate communities and provides cohesive accessibility to sedimentary sequences, age model development, and proxies. The data set is publicly available through PANGAEA at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875998.

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Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process

Cited by 28 publications

References 22 publications

Data anxieties: Finding trust in everyday digital mess

Data anxieties: Finding trust in everyday digital mess

Algorithmic assemblages of care: imaginaries, epistemologies and repair work

A database of paleoceanographic sediment cores from the North Pacific, 1951–2016

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