13 research outputs found
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