Technical research and development are embedded in social contexts, afforded by stakeholders, their goals and interests, values and assumptions, and the social and professional structures they are part of. The choice of research topics and many development decisions start from rather general, standard assumptions about […]
Author: Claude Draude
Claude spends a lot of time thinking about what happens when something becomes an object of computing. How things, bodies, machines, humans and animals inter- or intra-act is of major interest to her. She was raised by songs, runs with dogs and still wonders why Power Point counts as a valid medium for academic lectures, but dancing does not. Her mother tongue is German.
Call for Contributions: New Materialist Informatics 2021
In recent decades, new materialist thought has emerged as a transversal field of inquiry that successfully brings together and constructs hybrid spaces between the social sciences & the humanities and the natural & technical sciences & engineering. Within those spaces, engagement with the concerns around […]