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The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures

Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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How does automation affect us, our environment, and our imaginations? What actions should we take in response to automation? Beyond grand narratives and technology-driven visions of the future, what more can automation offer?

With these questions in mind, The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures provides a framework for thinking about and implementing automation differently. It consolidates automated futures as an inter- and transdisciplinary research field, embedding the imaginaries, interactions, and impacts of automation technology within their social, historical, societal, cultural, and political contexts. Promoting a critical yet constructive and engaging agenda, the handbook invites readers to collaborate with rather than resist automation agendas. It does so by pushing the agenda for social science, humanities and design beyond merely assessing and evaluating existing technologies. Instead, the handbook demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences are essential to the design and governance of sustainable sociotechnical systems. Methodologically, the handbook is underpinned by a pedagogical approach to staging co-learning and co-creation of automated futures with, rather than simply for, people. In this way, the handbook encourages readers to explore new and alternative modes of research, fostering a deeper engagement with the evolving landscape of automation.

  • integrates perspectives at both philosophical and practical levels
  • a guide to imaginaries and interactions with automation technology that cuts across different fields
  • demonstrates how co-learning and co-creation can be staged and analysed

Author / Editor information

Vaike Fors, Halmstad University, Sweden.

Martin Berg, Malmö University, Sweden.

Meike Brodersen, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Figures

    IX
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    List of Tables

    XI
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    Chapter 1 Navigating Automated Futures: A Framework for Playing and Learning with Imaginaries, Interactions, and Impact

    1
    Vaike Fors, Martin Berg and Meike Brodersen
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    Chapter 2 Automation and Futures: Doing Social Science Forward

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    Sarah Pink
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  • Part 1: Imaginaries
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    Chapter 3 Peter’s Problem. An Analysis of the Imaginaries about Automated Futures Portrayed in QualityLand

    37
    Andrea Rosales and Sara Suárez-Gonzalo
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    Chapter 4 ‘Where are my robots, Mija?!’ A Situated Review of Technological Change Narratives in Latin America

    55
    Nicolas Didier and Martin Perez Comisso
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    Chapter 5 The Possible Futures of Automated Public Space

    73
    Robert Lundberg
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    Chapter 6 Small Automation: Thinking Through the Texture of Automated Systems

    89
    Dang Nguyen
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    Chapter 7 The House as a Machine for Living: Dreams of Domestic Automation, 1923–2023

    105
    Jonnie Eriksson and Tomas Nilson
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    Chapter 8 Necrorobotics. The Ethics of Resurrecting the Dead

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    Stefan Larsson
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    Chapter 9 Unveiling Ambiguity: Dilemmas of Automation in Medical Imaging

    139
    Jonas Ivarsson
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    Chapter 10 Algorithmic Europe: Narratives of Risks and Benefits of Public–Private Interaction in Public Sector AI

    157
    Jana Misic
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  • Part 2: Interactions
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    Chapter 11 Algorithmic Agency, Automated Content, and User Engagement on TikTok

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    Mark Nunes
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    Chapter 12 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Predictive Policing and Structural Biases in Automated Criminal Justice Techniques

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    Courtney D. Tabor
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    Chapter 13 Sound Automation: Some Provisional Lessons from Electronic Music

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    Robert Willim
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    Chapter 14 Collaborative Future-Making: Bridging the Everyday and the Global Political Economy of Automated Health

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    Michael Strange and Jason Tucker
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    Chapter 15 Pursuing the Promises of Personalisation: Fetish and Friction in Futures of Automated News

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    Anna Schjøtt and Jannie Møller Hartley
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    Chapter 16 Beyond Human Oversight—Quality Management as a Tool to Control Automated Decision-Making Systems

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    Hanne Hirvonen and Frida Westerling
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    Chapter 17 Beware of ‘Bossware’: The Role of Communities for Gig Workers Dealing with Algorithmic Management

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    Phuong Hoan Le
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    Chapter 18 Silicon Valley’s Frictionless Future: The Design Philosophy of Frictionlessness

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    Jakko Kemper and Steve Jankowski
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    Chapter 19 Automated Afterlives

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    Ruben Albers, Shadan Sadeghian and Marc Hassenzahl
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    Chapter 20 Wuthering Weights—Localisation Trajectories of Machine Learning Models for Local Ends

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    Isak Engdahl
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  • Part 3: Impacts
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    Chapter 21 Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures

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    Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Alexandra Carr and Tim Crabtree
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    Chapter 22 Exploring Automated Futures through Game-making

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    Andrea Resmini, Dimitrios Gkouskos, Bertil Lindenfalk and Lena Hylving
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    Chapter 23 Soothing the Socio-Ethical Unease: Trolley Problems in the Age of Automated Decision-Making

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    Claudia Brändle
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    Chapter 24 Arts-Based and Sensory Methods to Imagine More-than-Human Automated Futures

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    Deborah Lupton, Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor and Ash Watson
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    Chapter 25 Sustainable Automated Futures: Participatory Human Approaches to Urban Mobility

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    Rachel C. Smith, Vaike Fors, Meike Brodersen, Jesper Lund and Esbjörn Ebbesson
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    Chapter 26 People on the Road: From Automated Mobility to Autonomous Human Actors through a People-Centred Approach

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    Gregor Cerinšek, Dan Podjed, Sara Arko and Polona Zabret
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    Author Biographies

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    Index

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 23, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783110792256
Hardcover published on:
September 23, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110792249
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
464
Illustrations:
1
Coloured Illustrations:
37
Tables:
11
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792256
eBook ISBN: 9783110792256
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110792249
Keywords for this book
Automation; Technology; Social Science; Humanities; Design
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students of Social Anthropology, Design, Humanities, Human-Computer Interaction, Philosophy and Sociology.
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