When the implication is not to design (technology)
By Eric P. Baumer, Michael Six Silberman. 2011
377 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Human-Computer Interaction
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In Human-Computer Interaction
- Margaret Drouhard
- Josephine Hoy
- Ben Green
- Salomé Viljöen
- Eric P. Baumer
- Janet Vertesi
- D. boyd
- Os Keyes
Citations in the corpus
- Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “But by starting from the technology and working outwards, there is never an opportunity to evaluate whether the technology should be built in the first place [11].”
- Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI (2019, background): “Some promising recent work toward these ends include Baumer & Silberman’s proposal not to design [18], or Pierce’s suggestion that we “undesign”—inhibit or foreclose—particular capabilities of technology [113].”
- Algorithmic realism: expanding the boundaries of algorithmic thought (2020, background): “While some have recognized that there are contexts in which it is better not to design technology [10], the common”
- Limiting, leaving, and (re)lapsing: an exploration of facebook non-use practices and experiences (2013, background): “However, while respondents’ leaving or limiting was not precipitated by the researchers, this work could be seen as what Baumer and Silberman call “technological extravention” [1], i.”