Reading datasets: Strategies for interpreting the politics of data signification

L Poirier - Big Data & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
All datasets emerge from and are enmeshed in power-laden semiotic systems. While
emerging data ethics curriculum is supporting data science students in identifying data …

[图书][B] Semantic media: Mapping meaning on the internet

A Iliadis - 2022 - books.google.com
Media technologies now provide facts, answers, and “knowledge” to people–search
engines, apps, and virtual assistants increasingly articulate responses rather than direct …

Interrogating data work as a community of practice

A Rothschild, A Meng, C DiSalvo, B Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We apply Lave & Wenger's construct of a community of practice to identify and position
members of the data work community of practice, focusing on members on the periphery …

Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth

E Hauser - Journal of the Association for Information Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from
credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical …

“A patchwork of data systems”: Quilting as an analytic lens and stabilizing practice for knowledge infrastructures

AK Thomer, AJ Rayburn - Science, Technology, & Human …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Museums and archives rely on databases and similar technologies to manage their
collections, but even when tailor-made for memory institutions, databases require …

Understanding art-making as documentation

T Gorichanaz - Art Documentation: Journal of the Art …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Typically, arts information professionals are concerned with the documentation of artwork.
As a provocation, this conceptual article explores how art-making itself can be considered a …

Understanding and information in the work of visual artists

T Gorichanaz - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To better account for information behavior in everyday life, the field must more fully explore
information phenomena in the lifeworld, that is, information experience. This article shows …

Philology and digital humanities

C Li - Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter provides an overview of how ancient and medieval texts, for which we do not
possess the original, can be studied. It describes a method by which a text can be …

Reproductive health and semantics: Representations of abortion in semantic models and search applications

B Dobreski, L Ridenour, M Resnick - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Health care-related queries are a common source of information seeking online, and, in light
of the June 2022 US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, information …

Time and temporality in library and information science

J Haider, V Johansson, B Hammarfelt - Journal of Documentation, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The article introduces selected theoretical approaches to time and temporality
relevant to the field of library and information science, and it briefly introduces the papers …