The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact

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The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures

Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact

Edited by: Vaike Fors , Martin Berg and Meike Brodersen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 2 | De Gruyter Handbooks of Digital Transformation

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Chapter 1 Navigating Automated Futures: A Framework for Playing and Learning with Imaginaries, Interactions, and Impact Vaike Fors, Martin Berg and Meike Brodersen Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Automation and Futures: Doing Social Science Forward Sarah Pink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Part 1: Imaginaries
Chapter 3 Peter’s Problem. An Analysis of the Imaginaries about Automated Futures Portrayed in QualityLand Andrea Rosales and Sara Suárez-Gonzalo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Chapter 4 ‘Where are my robots, Mija?!’ A Situated Review of Technological Change Narratives in Latin America Nicolas Didier and Martin Perez Comisso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Chapter 5 The Possible Futures of Automated Public Space Robert Lundberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Chapter 6 Small Automation: Thinking Through the Texture of Automated Systems Dang Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Chapter 7 The House as a Machine for Living: Dreams of Domestic Automation, 1923–2023 Jonnie Eriksson and Tomas Nilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Chapter 8 Necrorobotics. The Ethics of Resurrecting the Dead Stefan Larsson Open Access Download PDF	121
Chapter 9 Unveiling Ambiguity: Dilemmas of Automation in Medical Imaging Jonas Ivarsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Chapter 10 Algorithmic Europe: Narratives of Risks and Benefits of Public–Private Interaction in Public Sector AI Jana Misic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Part 2: Interactions
Chapter 11 Algorithmic Agency, Automated Content, and User Engagement on TikTok Mark Nunes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Chapter 12 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Predictive Policing and Structural Biases in Automated Criminal Justice Techniques Courtney D. Tabor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Chapter 13 Sound Automation: Some Provisional Lessons from Electronic Music Robert Willim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Chapter 14 Collaborative Future-Making: Bridging the Everyday and the Global Political Economy of Automated Health Michael Strange and Jason Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Chapter 15 Pursuing the Promises of Personalisation: Fetish and Friction in Futures of Automated News Anna Schjøtt and Jannie Møller Hartley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Chapter 16 Beyond Human Oversight—Quality Management as a Tool to Control Automated Decision-Making Systems Hanne Hirvonen and Frida Westerling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Chapter 17 Beware of ‘Bossware’: The Role of Communities for Gig Workers Dealing with Algorithmic Management Phuong Hoan Le Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Chapter 18 Silicon Valley’s Frictionless Future: The Design Philosophy of Frictionlessness Jakko Kemper and Steve Jankowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Chapter 19 Automated Afterlives Ruben Albers, Shadan Sadeghian and Marc Hassenzahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Chapter 20 Wuthering Weights—Localisation Trajectories of Machine Learning Models for Local Ends Isak Engdahl Open Access Download PDF	321
Part 3: Impacts
Chapter 21 Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Alexandra Carr and Tim Crabtree Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Chapter 22 Exploring Automated Futures through Game-making Andrea Resmini, Dimitrios Gkouskos, Bertil Lindenfalk and Lena Hylving Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
Chapter 23 Soothing the Socio-Ethical Unease: Trolley Problems in the Age of Automated Decision-Making Claudia Brändle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	379
Chapter 24 Arts-Based and Sensory Methods to Imagine More-than-Human Automated Futures Deborah Lupton, Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor and Ash Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Chapter 25 Sustainable Automated Futures: Participatory Human Approaches to Urban Mobility Rachel C. Smith, Vaike Fors, Meike Brodersen, Jesper Lund and Esbjörn Ebbesson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	413
Chapter 26 People on the Road: From Automated Mobility to Autonomous Human Actors through a People-Centred Approach Gregor Cerinšek, Dan Podjed, Sara Arko and Polona Zabret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Author Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	453
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	459

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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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