Acts of digital parasitism: Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation
Acts of digital parasitism: Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation
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数字寄生行为：黑客、人道主义应用程序和平台化
作者：
Claudia Aradau;Tobias Blanke;Giles Greenway
数字技术的不透明性对关键研究和数字方法构成了重大挑战。作为回应，争议地图、逆向工程和黑客攻击已经成为解决数字生态系统不透明和“打开黑匣子”的关键方法论手段。我们将数字人道主义的最新发展以及2015年地中海难民危机后为难民加速生产应用程序作为方法实验的场所，以推进黑客作为关键的方法干预。借鉴Michel Serres的工作，我们建议将数字技术理解为“寄生”，并将黑客行为重新定义为“数字寄生行为”。数字寄生行为是与之并行而不是对抗的干扰。一方面，这种对黑客的改造通过改造数字人文和社会科学研究的黑客来推进数字方法的议程。另一方面，它使我们能够展示研究对象-人道主义应用程序-如何通过平台化和数字寄生关系中的整合进行配置。
The opacity of digital technologies has posed significant challenges for critical research and digital methods. In response, controversy mapping, reverse engineering and hacking have been key methodological devices to grapple with opacity and ‘open the black box’ of digital ecosystems. We take recent developments in digital humanitarianism and the accelerated production of apps for refugees following the 2015 Mediterranean refugee crisis as a site of methodological experimentation to advance hacking as critical methodological interference. Drawing on the work of Michel Serres, we propose to understand digital technologies as ‘parasitic’ and reconceptualise hacking as ‘acts of digital parasitism’. Acts of digital parasitism are interferences that work alongside rather than work against. On one hand, this reworking of hacking advances an agenda for digital methods through reworking hacking for digital humanities and social science research. On the other, it allows us to show how the object of research – humanitarian apps – is configured through platformisation and incorporation within digital parasitic relations.
数字方法：五个挑战
DOI：
10.1057/9780230371934_4
发表时间：
2012
期刊：
影响因子：
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作者：
Theo Röhle;Bernhard Rieder
通讯作者：
Bernhard Rieder
DOI：
10.1177/0162243915574602
发表时间：
2015-09
期刊：
Science, technology & human values
影响因子：
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作者：
Marres N
通讯作者：
Marres N
侵入大数据的社交生活
影响因子：
8.5
作者：
Pybus J
通讯作者：
Pybus J