Sense Of New Technology Research Articles

Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*

ABSTRACT While artificial intelligence technologies are increasingly studied as drivers of “digital authoritarianism,” resistance to this process has remained underexplored. Our paper addresses this gap by asking why and how citizens resist AI-powered autocratization in consolidated democracies. We first conceptualize this resistance as distinct from other forms of anti-autocratic resistance in that it is anticipatory rather than reactive, and directed at existing authorities rather than new democratic challengers. We then introduce techno-authoritarian imaginaries as a novel concept to understand the drivers and shapes of this resistance. First, we argue that activists from civil society draw on these broader, pre-existing imaginaries of authoritarian futures to make sense of new technologies and articulate technology-specific problem frames. Second, we propose that imaginaries are contingent on historical and political experiences and therefore differ between contexts. Such differences, in turn, shape how the respective targets respond to resistance. We illustrate our argument by case studies of campaigns against facial recognition technology in the U.S. and the European Union. Our paper enriches existing debates on resistance to autocratization and advocates or a more pronounced engagement with practices of future-making, as constructions of societal futures—both desirable and undesirable—are becoming an increasingly important source for democratic mobilization.

Through three levels of abstraction: Towards an ecological framework for making sense of new technologies in education

This position paper uses an ecological approach to examine how the interface between digital technology and education might be taken up as a complex system with interconnected facets that hold a range of implications. We understand the concept of ecology as the science of relations between living and non-living organisms and the environment, and we apply this model to identify the interactions between entities that exist in the hybrid space that intersects human social systems and technical systems. We use themes such as knowledge ecology and law of entropy to analyse how ecology is being discussed in extant literature and as a conceptual guide for thinking about how to develop an ecological framework for critical analysis of digital education. These two examples of are taken from conceptions of “complexity” and are key when illustrating contemporary developments in digital education. We propose ten categories derived from three groups of abstraction as a tool for research on educational, technical, and social impacts of 5G technology—or the relationship between 5G and education as a complex system.

Advanced Technology and Creative Magic: How Technology Use Shapes the Creativity-Innovation Process

Today more than ever, the use of technology is a daily experience for creative workers and inventors all over the world. While we know much about how technology shapes creative and innovative outcomes, we know less about how technology use shapes the creativity-innovation process. When faced with a new technology, creators and inventors have to navigate many tensions and puzzles, and how they do it is likely to change both the creative process and the way the technology is applied to it. The way individuals make sense of new technologies, decide whether or not to interact with them, and apply them to their innovative efforts has thus the potential to significantly shape the creative process and the innovation journey. As a consequence, a deeper, multidisciplinary look at the process of technology use is warranted in order to understand when the use of advanced technologies results in “creative magic”, and when instead they disrupt innovators’ efforts rather than helping them. This symposium includes four empirical papers focusing on these issues, either trying to understand how individuals and collectives make sense of new technologies entering their creative processes or whether and why they decide to apply new technologies in their work. Using Connective Action to Organize Collective Creativity in the Age of Social Media Presenter: Emily Truelove; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Designing in a Box: How Algorithms Shape the Creative Process Presenter: Alentina Vardanyan; Cambridge Judge Business School Accelerating Innovation without Killing it: Sustaining Ambiguity while Coordinating in Hackathons Presenter: Hila Lifshitz-Assaf; New York U. Presenter: Sarah Lebovitz; U. of Virginia Presenter: Lior Zalmanson; Tel Aviv U. Experimenting Strategically: How Industry Downturns Drive Standardization and Experimentation Presenter: Colleen Cunningham; London Business School Presenter: Aldona Kapacinskaite; London Business School

Framing organizational social media: a longitudinal study of a hotel chain

The development of social media in the past decade has transformed the hospitality and tourism industry. There is, however, limited empirical research on how individual employees and groups of employees within organizations make sense of new technology, such as social media, over time. In this paper we focus on the individual and organizational level by exploring how hotel employees and managers make sense of organizational social media over a 4-year period. The perceived usefulness of social media is studied in an organizational setting by applying technological frames as a theoretical framework. The study is a longitudinal case study that includes time both during and after the implementation of social media in an international hotel chain in Europe. A total of 37 in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted at 14 hotels as well as additional observations on site and on social media platforms. The study contributes to existing literature by investigating organizational social media use over time.

Making sense of new technology during organisational change

This article examines how employees interpret the use of various social media and web 2.0 technologies by managers of an organisation during a merger process. The article explores the way in which managers use technology to give sense to the merger process, the corresponding sensemaking of employees and also how employees make sense of the use of technology itself. The findings show that new media enables the sharing of emotional sense about organisational processes between managers and employees and places employees with different levels of involvement with the process and at different points in the organisational hierarchy on equal footing. In spite of this, employees view the use of technology negatively and feel mastered by the technology itself. In discussing these unintended consequences of the use of this technology, the article further discusses the paradoxes that emerge from using new technology to give sense during organisational change.

"Understanding New Technological Products: Identity, Practice, & Materiality"

In response to Barley’s clarion call (1986) to consider the interrelationships among actors, technologies, practices, and contexts when attempting to understand new technologies, organizational scholars have embarked on two distinct theoretical approaches: “practice” and “identity.” In this symposium, we have two aims: 1) making sense of these approaches, and 2) developing a better understanding of the areas of convergence and divergence between them. To achieve these goals, the symposium will begin with a look at an empirical project. This will provide a jumping-off point for a discussion among the panelists in which they consider the role of identity, practice theory, and materiality in making sense of new technologies. A discussant will then synthesize the dialogue before opening-up the discussion to the audience.

ON-FARM INNOVATION IN THE AUSTRALIAN WOOL INDUSTRY: A SENSEMAKING PERSPECTIVE

SUMMARYIn agricultural innovation, the success of widely used technologies is often assumed to have been inevitable. Conversely, the blame for the failure of new technologies that researchers, policy makers and extensionists consider superior to existing solutions is often placed on farmers. However, these assumptions can be challenged by taking a social-constructivist view of on-farm innovation to examine how and why farmers made sense of new technologies and how this sensemaking shaped their use of these technologies over time. The present study took such an approach in its analysis of Australian woolgrowers’ adoption, abandonment, implementation and use of new wool-testing technologies that highlighted the social and dynamic nature of innovation on-farm. On-farm innovation in this case was an evolving, dynamic process that changed over time as woolgrowers made sense of new technologies. The primary message to agricultural innovation researchers, technology developers, policy makers and extensionists is that successful on-farm innovation requires the active, ongoing engagement of industry participants. In order to engage industry participants in the innovation process, sensemakers’ personal identity frames and social context, and how these interpretation frameworks relate to the new technology need to be understood.

Bricolage in action: learning about, making sense of, and discussing, issues about genetically modified crops and food

Making sense of new technologies and their associated risks entails lay people in utilizing various modes of reasoning and making use of a range of interpretative resources at hand to interrogate evidence. Such sense making is accomplished collectively in ways that are sometimes playfully inventive, and which have regard to ideas of accountability and morally acceptability. In practice, such bricolage-like processes appear to have certain similarities with the work of everyday scientific investigation. This paper examines these processes of lay practical reasoning by adopting an analytic stance that is concerned with examining the fine detail of what people demonstrably do in accomplishing such work. It draws on data generated by number of reconvened discussion groups, which formed a component part of the recent public debate in the UK about the possible commercialization of genetically modified crops.

Transitioning to digital radiography ? How NDE organisations are making sense of new technology

Many non-destructive examination (NDE) organisations are considering making the transition from analogue film radiography to digital radiography. This article identifies the key issues NDE organisations face in the transition and examines under what set of circumstances this transition makes good sense. The experiences of several organisations using flexible storage phosphor plates for computed radiography (CR) provide application examples and illustrate both the successes and frustrations of how users are adapting to the new technology.

Acting ethically, responding culturally: framing the new reproductive and genetic technologies in Sri Lanka

The spread of new reproductive and genetic technologies to the developing world stimulates reflection on the ethical issues they generate. The ‘built-in-ness’ of assumptions about personhood and relationality within these technologies means that local professionals must, perforce, engage with attempts to make sense of new technology with reference to local meanings and traditions or take positions which reject them. This paper explores such attempts to indigenise bioethics in contemporary Sri Lanka with reference to ethical/ cultural conflicts surrounding two practices: donor insemination and consanguinity counselling. The former is discussed in relation to the now defunct practice of polyandry and the latter in relation to matrilateral cross-cousin marriage. The final discussion takes up the consequences of this detailed parsing of local relationality for the larger project of rendering bioethics in some sense comparative.

Los procesos de construcción de conocimiento en aula virtual

about the conceptual assumptions that show the need for a particular eye of knowledge, science, teacher and school to make sense of new technologies and contribute to challenge and develop alternative teaching practices; these references have been the result of research work of the team with whom I have been developing research on interactive tele-education, activity in which elaborate materials virtual scenarios for the construction of knowledge.

Telecommunications: Making Sense of New Technology and New Legislation. Papers Presented at the 1984 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 14-16, 1984. James L. Divilbiss

Previous articleNext article No AccessShorter NoticesTelecommunications: Making Sense of New Technology and New Legislation. Papers Presented at the 1984 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 14-16, 1984. James L. DivilbissEmelie J. ShroderEmelie J. Shroder Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Library Quarterly Volume 58, Number 1Jan., 1988 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/601978 Copyright 1988 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.