Critical AI & Crisis Interrogatives (CRAI-CIS) Seminar
Bi-weekly dialogues and critical perspectives on artificial intelligence, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), participatory design, and crisis-related research for societal impact.
The CRAI-CIS Seminars engage emerging work across critical AI, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), participatory design, and crisis-related research. The seminars seek to invoke dialogues on how computational, human-centred, and social sciences perspectives can offer new insights and methods for inclusive approaches and critical inquiry with societal impact.
Each event features invited speakers who share distinct perspectives, ongoing research, methods, and challenges for future work in a 45 minute talk, followed by Q&A and space for mingling and networking. The talks will be recorded for open access in the future.
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Marta Choroszewicz: Power dynamics and emotions in building data technologies
Time: March 16, 2022, 13:30–15:00
Venue: Online
Abstract:
In this talk, I will present insights from my research, conducted in 2019–2021, as part of two research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, ‘Data-driven society in the making’ (PI: Prof. Ilpo Helén) and ‘Data literacy for responsible decision-making’ (PI at the University of Eastern Finland University lecturer Marja Alastalo). The presentation will give an overview of video-mediated ethnographic research practice on the development and deployment of data-centric technologies in social services and health care. First, I will briefly describe my experiences of video-mediated ethnographic research practice. Second, I will focus on capturing the work of emotions and power relations as important components of building data-centric technologies in public organizations and, more broadly, public–private partnerships. I will argue that elucidating human contributions to the production, deployment and use of data technologies can inform the establishment of critical literacy around the socio-professional-technical conditions in which these technologies are embedded.
Speaker Bio:
Marta Choroszewicz (DSocSci, Docent in sociology) is a university researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. Her work as a sociologist concentrates on the intersection between research on professional work, feminist theories, and science and technology studies. In her research, Marta has broadly investigated social inequalities in professions and in relation to the development and deployment of data-centric technologies in public-sector organizations. More broadly, Marta has engaged with the issue of building a digital welfare state via the use of new data technologies.