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Reading the Room : Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home

Wiehn, Tanja LU orcid (2025) p.111-124
Abstract
In this chapter, I draw on the artwork LAUREN by Lauren Lee McCarthy and the theoretical ideas of algorithmic intimacies and datafication to reveal the messy contradictions of the datafied home. What I term as the concept of algorithmic intimacies is a way to think anew about the intimate relations between subjects, algorithms, and proximities in data.¹ As the analysis aims to surface, these messy contradictions materialize in the forms of brokenness, doubt, and intimacy. Furthermore, the analysis meaningfully engages with the methodological approach of technological creep as postulated in this anthology: something almost imperceptible, a sensation gradually approaching and...
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Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen
editor
Atanasoski, Neda and Parvin, Nassim
pages
111 - 124
publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN
978-1-4780-2803-1
978-1-4780-3125-3
978-1-4780-6023-9
DOI
10.2307/jj.27894337.15
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English
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yes
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2025-03-19 13:16:48
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