A gathering and reconsideration of critical technical practices in digital research and beyond.
Contributions published in a special issue in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
If you’re interested in critical technical practices and you’d like to follow work in this area, we’ve set up a mailing list here for sharing projects, publications, events and other activities: https://jiscmail.ac.uk/CRITICAL-TECHNICAL-PRACTICES
Further details (links will be added here as they are available):
- Pluralising critical technical practice – special issue introduction
- Full special issue: Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research
- Critical technical practices Zotero group
- Original call for proposals (2020)
Special issue articles:
- Hind, S., & Seitz, T. (2022). Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221133248
- Dieter, M. (2022). Interface critique at large. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221135833
- John-Mathews, J.-M., De Mourat, R., Ricci, D., & Crépel, M. (2023). Re-enacting machine learning practices to enquire into the moral issues they pose. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231174584
- Koed Madsen, A. (2023). Digital methods as ‘experimental a priori’ – how to navigate vague empirical situations as an operationalist pragmatist. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221144260
- Soon, W., & Velasco, P. R. (2023). (De)constructing machines as critical technical practice. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221148098
- Jacomy, M., & Munk, A. K. (2022). Interfering with the black-box-tradeoff model: Gephisto, a one-click Gephi for critical technical practice. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221129053
- Pawlicka-Deger, U. (2022). Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221111073
- Ogden, J., Summers, E., & Walker, S. (2023). Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231164759
- Hirsbrunner, S. D., Tebbe, M., & Müller-Birn, C. (2022). From critical technical practice to reflexive data science. Convergence.https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221132243
- Rieder, B., Peeters, S., & Borra, E. (2022). From tool to tool-making: Reflections on authorship in social media research software. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221127094
- Chao, J., van Geenen, D., Gerlitz, C., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2024). Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241226791
- Chávez Heras, D. (2023). Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231174592
- Querubín, N. S., & Niederer, S. (2022). Climate futures: Machine learning from cli-fi. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221135715
Image credit: “All Gone Tarot Deck” co-created by Carlo De Gaetano, Natalia Sánchez Querubín, Sabine Niederer and the Visual Methodologies Collective from Climate futures: Machine learning from cli-fi, one of the special issue articles.