Surfacing the arctic: politics of participation in infrastructuring
Surfacing the arctic: politics of participation in infrastructuring
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登上北极：参与基础设施建设的政治
DOI：
10.1145/3210604.3210625
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发表时间：
2018
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H. Karasti
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作者：
Elena Parmiggiani;H. Karasti
传感器网络、算法和数字数据的持续采用带来了开放参与知识生产的承诺。然而，这些基础设施建设中的参与式设计（PD）过程的动态仍然不明确。这篇简短的论文借鉴了一家石油公司项目的研究成果，该项目旨在设计一个开放的数字平台，以产生有关北极海洋环境的知识。这项工作充满了政治争议，涉及多个议程截然不同的利益相关者。利用基础设施的关系质量，我们建议通过同时解决人类和非人类参与者的角色问题，突出数字技术和受监控的自然生态系统，来重振PD的政治根源。我们讨论基础设施如何旨在让人类可视化难以接近的事物，并通过创建可见（不可见）空间以及将知识创造的控制权集中在最强大的利益相关者手中来塑造参与。
The1 ongoing adoption of sensor networks, algorithms, and digital data comes with the promise of opening up participation in knowledge production. However, the dynamics of the participatory design (PD) processes in these infrastructuring endeavors remain underspecified. This short paper draws on a study of an oil company's project to design an open digital platform to produce knowledge about the Arctic marine environment. Fraught with political controversies, this effort encompasses several stakeholders with contrasting agendas. Leveraging the relational quality of infrastructure, we propose to revitalize the political roots of PD by problematizing simultaneously the roles of human and non-human participants, foregrounding both digital technology and the monitored natural ecosystems. We discuss how infrastructuring aimed at letting humans visualize the inaccessible, also shapes participation by creating spaces of (in)visibility and concentrating control over knowledge creation in the hands of the most powerful stakeholders.