New book: Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies
Author Kathy Nickels
Date 10 May 2022
ADM+S researchers Sarah Pink and Deborah Lupton together with colleagues Martin Berg and Minna Ruckenstein bring together research developed across anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies and ethnology, which shows how by rehumanising automation, we can gain deeper understandings of its societal impacts in this new open access book Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies.
“ADM and AI need to be treated as complex sociotechnical systems that develop over time and need ongoing stabilisation, repair and care of human-algorithm relations within the mundane everyday worlds of all the humans who are co-implicated with them.”
From Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies.
As its title suggests, this book brings the experiences of automation in everyday life into focus. The book provides compelling research in three parts that explore: Challenging dominant narratives of automation; Embedding automated systems in everyday; and Experimenting with automation in society.
