SHAPE er glad for at kunne præsentere Professor ved Department of Technology, Management and Economics på DTU (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), Brit Ross Winthereik, som oplægsholder ved vores kommende Sociotechnical Data Studies Saloon. I sit oplæg, Citizen from hell – Acts of digital citizenship, vil Brit præsentere empirisk forskning af den digitale stat set fra velfærdsmodtagerens synspunkt. 

Lokation: 5335-229, Aarhus Universitet eller Zoom. 

Bio:

Brit Ross Winthereik is professor at Dept. of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark where she is deputy head of the Division of Responsible Innovation and Design. Her main area of expertise is social studies of digital infrastructures. Her current research revolves around public sector digitalization with special attention to how digital technologies shape citizen-state relations. She leads the Nordforsk sponsored project Infrastructures for Partially Digital Citizens, which focuses on informal digital support work. She has published internationally within Science and Technology Studies, anthropology and information science. She is co-author of Monitoring Movements: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures (MIT Press, 2013 with Casper Bruun Jensen), co-editor of Electrifying Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2019 with Simone Abram and Tom Yarrow), and Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke, 2021 with Andrea Ballestero).

Title & abstract:

Citizen from hell – Acts of digital citizenship  

Latour’s classic Where are the Missing Masses? makes a pun on the missing matter in the universe and argues that similarly to the missing mass, technological objects and their agencies remain unaccounted for in sociological research. Some 30 years later, sociological research has become so skilled in accounting for technologies and their impact on social and organizational life that human experiences of living with technology may have gone missing instead. Today, we might ask, where are the missing body masses in digital welfare research? This talk presents citizen experiences of digitalized systems of the modern welfare services. It is a response to the lack of empirical research of the citizens’ role in the processes that make digitalization possible. In the talk, I analyze the digital state from the perspective of the welfare recipient and offer a different version of citizen subjectivity than the ones afforded by the available systems and platforms. The talk invites for a discussion on how to infrastructure digital welfare.