[Petit Fours #395] On fleeting alliances, mechanical sympathy, and feminist tech
Hi, everyone! Before this newsletter goes on summer break until mid-August, there are a few more things I want to share:
#1 Our new journal article Fleeting Alliances and Frugal Collaboration in Piecework: A Video-Analysis of Food Delivery Work in India is now online (open access). Treat yourself to some detailed video analysis and excellent illustrations by the first author, Riyaj Shaikh!
#2 At the DIS 2024 conference next week, Friday will be drone day, featuring two papers and a pictorial by our team. Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations won a Best Paper award, How to Train Your Drone - Exploring the Umwelt as a Design Metaphor for Human-Drone Interaction opens up a generative design space for human-drone interaction, and Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Programming in Perception-Action Loops is where you can read about what we learned from organizing challenges at the drone arena. (I won’t be at the conference but make sure to say hi to my colleagues if you are headed to Copenhagen!)
#3 In unexpected and delightful news, we got funded to run a Digital Futures focus period on FemTech and Feminist Tech. More on this later, but for now, here’s a short description: “The emphasis in our approach will be on ‘fixing the knowledge’ (Schiebinger and Schraudner 2011) in engineering and physical sciences: it is about stimulating excellence in science and technology as related to digitalisation by taking a deliberate and gendered perspective. We aim to show with this focus period how an intersectional framing on digitalisation as a broad subject area can lead to new insights, new discoveries, and new innovations.”
#4 Lapland Wilderness Challenge 2024 begins tomorrow. Tune in to cheer on my sister and other adventurers: How far can you hike in 5 days – at your own pace but unsupported and navigating through the arctic wilderness?
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