Situated Knowledges

By Donna Haraway. 1988

Subfields: Philosophy, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models (2021, background): “Philosophical challenges have been brought against the idea that there is an objective truth that can be discovered in the first place (Haraway, 1988; Harding, 1987; Hill Collins and Denzin, 2003; Hookway, 1990; Luper, 2004).”
MERLOT RESERVE: Neural Script Knowledge through Vision and Language and Sound (2022, background): “One of the root causes of such bias is learning objectives that encourage memorization of surface level cooccurences, rather than truly causal factors [55, 9, 117].”
MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models (2021, background): “Objectives like the common masked language modeling objective reinforce this, as the model must predict everything that was ever said – the equivalent of a ‘view from nowhere’ [34, 101].”
Towards Accountability for Machine Learning Datasets: Practices from Software Engineering and Infrastructure (2020, background): “ In the case of data labeling, this collapses the dichotomy of the the observer and the observed, making label provenance explicit in the data [135] rather than pretending to be a “view from nowhere” [65, 104] and creating the space for alternate epistemologies needed to confront the bias paradox [6”
Disembodied Machine Learning: On the Illusion of Objectivity in NLP (2021, methodology): “In her seminal STS work, Donna Haraway (1988) calls into question the notion of objectivity, arguing that the production of knowledge is an active process, in which we subjectively construct knowledge based on our very particular, subjective bodies.”
What We Can't Measure, We Can't Understand: Challenges to Demographic Data Procurement in the Pursuit of Fairness (2020, background): “every group the same can be seen as trying to espouse a “view from nowhere,” [36] which in practice just means taking the perspective of the majority or those with power (e.”
Disproportionate Removals and Differing Content Moderation Experiences for Conservative, Transgender, and Black Social Media Users: Marginalization and Moderation Gray Areas (2021, methodology): “We align with approaches like feminist standpoint theory that center marginalized experiences and acknowledge, rather than ignore, the social contexts in which research is conducted [55, 56].”
Service Design in HCI Research: The Extended Value Co-creation Model (2019, methodology): “Drawing from Haraway’s concept of situated knowledge [18], Suchman [42] called for professional designers to take “located accountability” to become responsible for explicitly positioning themselves within the social relations that comprise technical systems.”
Theories of “Gender” in NLP Bias Research (2022, methodology): “[27] Yan Chen, Christopher Mahoney, Isabella Grasso, Esma Wali, Abigail Matthews, Thomas Middleton, Mariama Njie, and Jeanna Matthews.”
Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, background): “These kinds of politics related to knowledge creation have been long critiqued in STS [53, 91, 102, 104].”
Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI (2019, background): “We recognize that communities and environments are best understood fromwithin, rather than through a technochauvinistic lens or “view from nowhere” [69].”
Engaging Solidarity in Data Collection Practices for Community Health (2018, background): “We share our backgrounds to situate our partial perspectives [4, 29].”
Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale (2022, background): “hiding a specific perspective and set of assumptions under the guise of neutrality, has been long-studied and criticized by sociologists for contributing to the exclusion and ostracizing of those who do not belong to the default group (Rogowska-Stangret, 2018; Haraway, 2020).”