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        Date: 2024-06-26 10:52:12+00:00
        From: van Geenen, Daniela <Daniela.vGeenen@uni-siegen.de>
        Subject: Special Issue launch “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research” (10 July)

Dear list members,

It is our pleasure to invite you to the public launch of the special
issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research” on Wednesday
10 July, 2 to 4 pm CEST with some short presentations and the
possibility for Q&A and discussion.

You can join us either online or in Siegen (Germany). For registration:
https://forms.office.com/e/P5GKbi4Mnt

In this special issue, we turn to ideas of and approaches to critical
technical practices (CTPs) as entry points to doing critique and doing
things critically in digitally mediated cultures and societies. We
explore the pluralisation of ‘critical technical practice’, starting
from its early formulations in the context of AI research and
development (Agre, 1997a, 1997b) to the many ways in which it has
resonated and been taken up by different communities of practice, and in
diverse publications and projects. Agre defined CTP as ‘a technical
practice for which critical reflection upon the practice is part of the
practice itself’ (1997a: XII). Communities of practice who adopted and
adapted CTP range from human–computer interaction (HCI) to media art and
pedagogy, from science and technology studies (STS) and
computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) to digital humanities, media
studies and data studies. This special issue serves as an invitation to
(re)consider what it means to use this notion drawing on a wider body of
work, including beyond Agre. In this introduction, we review and discuss
CTPs according to (1) Agre, (2) indexed research, and (3) contributors
to this special issue. We conclude with some questions and
considerations for those interested in working with this notion.

The issue features contributions on machine learning, digital methods,
art-based interventions, one-click network trouble, web page
snapshotting, social media tool-making, sensory media, supercuts,
climate futures and more from Tatjana Seitz & Sam Hind; Michael Dieter;
Jean-Marie John-Mathews, Robin De Mourat, Donato Ricci & Maxime Crépel;
Anders Koed Madsen; Winnie Soon & Pablo Velasco; Mathieu Jacomy & Anders
Munk; Jessica Ogden, Edward Summers & Shawn Walker; Urszula
Pawlicka-Deger; Simon Hirsbrunner, Michael Tebbe & Claudia Müller-Birn;
Bernhard Rieder, Eric Borra & Stijn Peters; Carolin Gerlitz, Fernando
van der Vlist & Jason Chao; Daniel Chavez Heras; and Sabine Niederer &
Natalia Sanchez Querubin.

The issue published in Convergence (Vol. 30, Issue 1) can be accessed here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/1.

Links to the articles, to our living literature collection (Zotero
group), and information on the newly created dedicated mailing list can
be found here:
https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/.

Best wishes,

Daniela van Geenen, Karin van Es & Jonathan Gray


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