Papers by Christopher Gad
STS Encounters
Fra introduktionen: Officielle dokumenter: rapporter, evalueringer, kontrakter m.m. spiller... more Fra introduktionen: Officielle dokumenter: rapporter, evalueringer, kontrakter m.m. spiller en stor rolle i moderne bureaukratisk praksis, hvor de bl.a. kan ses som udtryk for forsøg på at skabe orden i komplekse og dynamiske virkeligheder med henblik på kunne handle og tage sty-‐ringsmæssige initiativer. Når dokumenter spiller denne vigtige rolle, giver det anledning til at undersøge, hvordan de kan analyseres nærmere. I denne artikel vil jeg således diskutere dokumenter og læsestrategier på tværs af etnografi og STS-‐studier. På baggrund deraf vil jeg foretage en læsning af udvalgte dokumenter, der cirkulerer i en aktuel bureaukratisk praksis, dansk fiskerikontrol og i den forbindelse sætte særligt fokus på styring.
Routledge eBooks, Dec 14, 2022
This chapter explores effects of the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) on the organi... more This chapter explores effects of the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) on the organisation of work in the Danish Customs and Tax Administration in a situation where a machine learning algorithm was expected to make the work of customs officers more efficient. The chapter highlights how experiments with machine learning algorithms may redraw intra-organisational boundaries, responsibilities, as well as divisions and meanings of work. The implementation of the machine learning algorithm, as a particular form of AI, in this case, led attention towards data and IT systems, at the expense of the very work the technology was intended to support. One concern at play here, we argue, is that AI developers seem to have generally abandoned the idea of representing work, making it ever more important that ethnographers do so.
STS Encounters
All of the contributions to this special issue are occupied with how to engage data otherwise. Th... more All of the contributions to this special issue are occupied with how to engage data otherwise. This otherwise indexes the rich variety of approaches to data beyond what we are currently witnessing. Whether through the development of politically and ethically relevant forms of data experiments, or the construction of alternative visions of the much-critiqued data infrastructures of powerful platform providers, all the articles reflect upon how we - as scholars and citizens - can live and work with data in ways amenable to diverse, critical, and ethical forms of social existence. This introduction intervenes in this debate in its own particular way, principally by considering what it means to characterise the contemporary as a data moment. The term data moment, we argue, works as a conceptual device calling for more ethical-political engagement with data practices. At the same time, it also retains a temporal inflection. Moments, we claim, are not sequential steps in a linear process,...
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Papers by Christopher Gad