Situated with Infrastructures: Interactivity and Entanglement in Sensor Data Interpretation

Almklov, Petter Grytten; Østerlie, Thomas; Haavik, Torgeir K.

doi:10.17705/1jais.00361

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“…A related but not identical notion of situatedness can be found in science and technology research building upon Lucy Suchman's work (1987,2007), but here it is not the data itself that is situated in particular ways, but rather the people interpreting the data (e.g. Almklov et al, 2014) or other modes of situational awareness between humans and technology (Stacey and Suchman, 2012). These understandings of situatedness could be added to a situated data analysis.…”

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confidence: 88%

Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps

Rettberg

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This paper proposes situated data analysis as a new method for analysing social media platforms and digital apps. An analysis of the fitness tracking app Strava is used as a case study to develop and illustrate the method. Building upon Haraway's concept of situated knowledge and recent research on algorithmic bias, situated data analysis allows researchers to analyse how data is constructed, framed and processed for different audiences and purposes. Situated data analysis recognises that data is always partial and situated, and it gives scholars tools to analyse how it is situated, and what effects this may have. Situated data analysis examines representations of data, like data visualisations, which are meant for humans, and operations with data, which occur when personal or aggregate data is processed algorithmically by machines, for instance to predict behaviour patterns, adjust services or recommend content. The continuum between representational and operational uses of data is connected to different power relationships between platforms, users and society, ranging from normative disciplinary power and technologies of the self to environmental power, a concept that has begun to be developed in analyses of digital media as a power that is embedded in the environment, making certain actions easier or more difficult, and thus remaining external to the subject, in contrast to disciplinary power which is internalised. Situated data analysis can be applied to the aggregation, representation and operationalization of personal data in social media platforms like Facebook or YouTube, or by companies like Google or Amazon, and gives researchers more nuanced tools for analysing power relationships between companies, platforms and users.

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confidence: 88%

Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps

Rettberg

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…That is, while a situation involves a number of external forces, the way a situation emerges in the room is through the monitoring and analysis of data (as this is the primary way that these other external forces are rendered visible and knowable). There is an established and diverse literature on situation, control and operations rooms and on the notion of situations specifically, which we cannot discuss in detail (Almklov et al, 2014;Bohn, 2003;Cetina, 2009;Filippi and Theureau, 1993;Heath and Luff, 1992;Landgren and Bergstrand, 2016;Suchman, 1997;Walters, 2017;Wybo and Kowalski, 1998). We understand our data situations very much in the tradition of Karin Knorr Cetina's 'synthetic situations', where a situation is understood to be constituted through mediation or 'on-screen projections', rather than by human to human relations (2009: 65).…”

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confidence: 99%

Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data

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This article adapts the ethnographic medium of the diary to develop a method for studying data and related data practices. The article focuses on the creation of one data diary, developed iteratively over three years in the context of a national centre for monitoring disasters and natural hazards in Brazil (Cemaden). We describe four points of focus involved in the creation of a data diary – spaces, interfaces, types and situations – before reflecting on the value of this method. We suggest data diaries (1) are able to capture the informal dimension of data-intensive organisations; (2) enable empirical analysis of the specific ways that data intervene in the unfolding of situations; and (3) as a document, data diaries can foster interdisciplinary and inter-expert dialogue by bridging different ways of knowing data.

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“…The concept of communities of practice developed by Lave and Wenger (1991) focusing on the social interactional context in which practice takes place is often referred to in the study of IOs (Almklov, Østerlie, & Haavik, 2014;Ose & Steiro, 2013). The practice-based orientation has a rather pragmatist perspective on knowledge by assuming that knowing and doing are intrinsically connected.…”

Section: Integrated Operations As Communities Of Practicementioning

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Complexity in the oil and gas industr he problem of emergency: a study into exploration and exploitation in integrated operations

Bento

2018

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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A common organizational response to the recognition of complexity is the consolidation of collaborative work forms. In the oil and gas industry, developments in communication and automation technologies have enabled the implementation of collaborative environments called integrated operations (IO). The IO concept is usually described as the integration of people, work processes and technology with the goal of facilitating decision-making and process optimization. This study contributes to the study of the knowledge dimension of IOs by investigating the exploitation of existing practices and the exploration of new possibilities in complex adaptive processes. Data collected through observations of practices reveal changes in patterns of interaction among oil platform operators relocated to an IO facility and the emergence of a complex interplay between exploitation and exploration. Rather than a spatial or temporal separation between the two processes, the findings illustrate an organic relation between exploration and exploration in the context of uncertainty and local adaptations in oil production. The discussion of findings provides elements to reflect upon knowledge management in the oil and gas industry.

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Situated with Infrastructures: Interactivity and Entanglement in Sensor Data Interpretation

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Cited by 11 publications

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Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps

Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps

Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data

Complexity in the oil and gas industr he problem of emergency: a study into exploration and exploitation in integrated operations

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