[Air-L] [CfA EASST/4S Prague] Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds

[Yoehan Oh]

A QUICK AND GENTLE REMINDER:

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:46 PM Yoehan Oh <yoehan.oh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> Please take into consideration submitting your abstract to the open panel
> session at the EASST/4S conference in Prague, August 2020, "Other
> Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating
> knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds." The upcoming EASST/4S
> conference 2020, the joint conference of the annual European Science and
> Technology Studies (STS) conference and the worldwide major annual STS
> conference, will be held in Prague, August 18-21, 2020 (official website:
> https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/). If you have any question, feel free
> to contact me (ohy at rpi.edu). If you might, hopefully, find this
> interesting to others in your networks, please share it with them.
>
> Key dates and the CfA are as the following:
>
> KEY DATES
> 29 February 2020: Deadline for abstract submission:
> 15 April 2020: Notification of acceptance of all abstracts
>
> TITLE
> *Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating
> knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds *(*Open panel 131*)
>
> ABSTRACT
> Some scholars in digital humanities and critical internet and digital
> technologies studies have asked for bringing critical concerns about race,
> gender, postcoloniality, and other inequal power structures to their field
> (Nakamura 2013; Noble et al. 2016; McPherson 2013; Posner 2016; Risam 2018;
> Benjamin 2019). One way to address those concerns is illuminating
> technically-inventive subjectivities, by appreciating and thus empowering
> them through conceptualizations they deserve. STSers have conceptualized
> them and their artifacts as “Black vernacular technological creativity,”
> “techno-vernacular creativity,” (Fouché 2006; Gaskins 2019), “innovation
> from below” (Williams 2018), “ethnocomputing,” (Petrillo 1994; Tedre et-al.
> 2006; Eglash 1999), “postcolonial computing,” (Irani et-al. 2010; cf.
> Burrell 2012), and “black software” (McIlwain 2019); historians of
> computing have studied information architectures, hardware, and software in
> the Middle East, Latin America, East Asia, Midwestern U.S., and
> (post-)communist contexts (Bowker 1994; Medina 2011; Tinn 2018; Rankin
> 2018; Švelch 2018; Biagioli et-al. 2019). To further these
> conceptualizations, this panel will focus on less resourceful worlds’
> captures of knowledge technologies, predominated by a few resourceful
> countries’ R&D communities like U.S., Canada, some Western Europe
> countries, China, and Japan: Knowledge discovery by data, Data engineering,
> Semantic technologies, and Search engines, etc (Collins 1987; Forsythe
> 1993). Questions to be addressed are: How indigenous, aboriginal,
> vernacular, decolonial, de-ColdWar, or less
> capitalistically/settler-colonially exploitative the knowledge engineering
> practices at scales by technical actors in the underrecognized/emerging
> worlds can be? Which speculative, experimental, or empirical cases can we
> dig into as the Indigenous “Knowledge engineering” Systems (Watson-Verran
> et al. 1995; Brereton et-al. 2015; Chamunorwa et-al. 2018)?
>
> KEYWORDS: knowledge engineering, knowledge technologies, technological
> agency, indigenous knowledge systems, emerging worlds
>
> THREE CATEGOREIS: Big Data; Information, Computing and Media Technology;
> Postcolonial/Decolonial STS
>
> CONVENORS: Yoehan Oh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>
> Wish you a happy new year.
> Best,
> Yoehan
>
>
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> Yoehan Oh
> Ph.D. Student
> Department of Science and Technology Studies
> Rensselaer Polytechnic institute
> 110 8th Street
> Troy, NY 12180  USA
> e-mail: ohy at rpi.edu ; yoehan.oh at gmail.com
> phone: (518) 368-1257
> pronoun: he/him
>


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Yoehan Oh
Ph.D. Student
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180  USA
e-mail: ohy at rpi.edu ; yoehan.oh at gmail.com
phone: (518) 368-1257
pronoun: he/him