Policy design in data economy: In need for a public online news (eco)system?

Socio-technical design embeds social investigations and inquiries into (Information) Technology Design processes. In this position paper, we propose, by using the aforementioned approach the design of technology and policies can simultaneously inform each other. Additionally we present data economy and particularly anchored online journalism platforms as use cases of policy need and design potentials.Comment: 3 page

Feminist epistemology for machine learning systems design

This paper presents a series of feminist epistemological concepts as tools for developing critical, more accountable, and contextualised approaches to machine learning systems design. Namely, we suggest that the methods of situated knowledges or situating, figurations or figuring, diffraction or diffracting, and critical fabulation or speculation can be productively actualised in the field of machine learning systems design. We also suggest that the meta-method for doing this actualisation requires not so much translation but transposition - a creative and critical adaptation to speak to machine learning contexts.Comment: Workshop A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder - Theories and methods that can make a difference, Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing CSCW 23, October 14-18, 2023, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 5 page

Critical Tools for Machine Learning:Working with Intersectional Critical Concepts in Machine Learning Systems Design

This paper investigates how intersectional critical theoretical concepts from social sciences and humanities research can be worked with in machine learning systems design. It does so by presenting a case study of a series of speculative design workshops, conducted in 2021. These workshops drew on intersectional feminist methodologies to construct interdisciplinary interventions in the design of machine learning systems, towards more inclusive, accountable, and contextualized systems design. The concepts of "situating/situated knowledges", "figuration", "diffraction", and "critical fabulation/speculation"were taken up as theoretical and methodological tools for concept-led design workshops. This paper presents the design framework of the workshops and highlights tensions and possibilities with regards to interdisciplinary machine learning systems design towards more inclusive, contextualized, and accountable systems. It discusses the role that critical theoretical concepts can play in a design process and shows how such concepts can work as methodological tools that nonetheless require an open-ended experimental space to function. It presents insights and discussion points regarding what it means to work with critical intersectional knowledge that is inextricably connected to its historical and socio-political roots, and how this reframes what it might mean to design fair and accountable systems.</p

Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im Spannungsfeld von nachhaltiger und digitaler Transformation: eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung

Die Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Vereinten Nationen streben anhand von SDG 5 danach, die Gleichheit der Geschlechter im globalen Kontext herzustellen. Wir zeigen, dass der aktuelle, global angelegte Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs nicht nur blinde Flecken im Hinblick auf die konsequente Bekämpfung geschlechtsspezifischer Ungleichheiten aufweist, sondern auch einen wenig reflektierten Umgang mit der digitalen Transformation pflegt. Mögliche Ansätze zur Bewältigung des identifizierten Spannungsfeldes sehen wir in einer gendersensiblen IT-Gestaltung, einem digitalen Gleichstellungsgesetz und der konsequenten Bewertung von Folgen der globalen Nachhaltigkeitspolitik und -forschung im Hinblick auf Diskriminierung.The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to achieve gender equality through SDG 5. We show that current global discourses on sustainability not only have blind spots when it comes to the mechanisms of (re)producing gender inequality but that digital transformation processes are also insufficiently reflected on. We see gender-sensitive IT design, a digital equality law and rigorous impact assessments of global sustainability politics and research on discrimination as possible approaches to resolving this tension

Social Machines

Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEA