Scott Wark
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 382961 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott Wark |
| PRENOMES | Scott |
| SOBRENOME | Wark |
| ASSINATURA | WARK S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4515-5896 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Digital Valuation
This article describes the use of a prototype recommendation app to explore how users are included and/or excluded in categories of various kinds of ‘People Like You’. In the study, interviews with users of the prototype app indicate that the experience of receiving personalized recommendations isroutinely evaluated in terms of relevance, that is, as either of interest to them or as beside the point, as accurate or inaccurate, with accuracy often…
(Re)search results
This article uses the search engine as a heuristic for reflecting upon the extent to which knowledge production within the academy both shapes and is shaped by the media that it studies and with which its research is enabled. More specifically, it argues that the efficiency that has helped make search both a paradigmatic feature of digital culture and a habitual, everyday activity is achieved not just through speediness of results, but through a …
A Media-Theoretical Armamentarium
This essay provides an introductory account of the concept of pharmakon and its uses in different traditions relevant to media theory. First, we chart existing media-theoretical uses of the pharmakon and the main points of reference in this body of work, such as Plato, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Second, we present the alternative genealogies of the pharmakon in reference to material, chemical and medical contexts. Taking the approach G…
What Personalisation Can Do for You! Or, How to Do Racial Discrimination Without Race
Between 2016 and 2020, Facebook allowed advertisers in the United States to target their advertisements using three broad “ethnic affinity” categories: “African American,” “U.S.-Hispanic,” and “Asian American.” This paper uses the life and death of these “ethnic affinity” categories to argue that they exemplify a novel mode of racialisation made possible by machine learning techniques. These categories worked by analysing users’ preferences and b…
Racial formations as data formations
This commentary uses Paul Gilroy's controversial claim that new technoscientific processes are instituting an 'end to race' as a provocation to discuss the epistemological transformation of race in algorithmic culture. We situate Gilroy's provocation within the context of an abolitionist agenda against racial-thinking, underscoring the relationship between his post-race polemic and a post-visual discourse. We then discuss the challenges of studyi…
Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition
Book Review| July 01 2020 Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition Across and Beyond: A Transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, edited by Bishop, Ryan; Gansing, Kristoffer; Parikka, Jussi; Wilk, Elvia, Berlin: Sternberg, 2016, 350 pages, €15.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-95679-289-2 Scott Wark Scott Wark Scott Wark is a research fellow for the Wellcome-funded project “People like You: Contemporary Figures of Personal…
The subject of circulation
Media after the “Medial a Priori
Review of Sybille Krämer's Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016
Racial formations as data formations
This commentary uses Paul Gilroy's controversial claim that new technoscientific processes are instituting an 'end to race' as a provocation to discuss the epistemological transformation of race in algorithmic culture. We situate Gilroy's provocation within the context of an abolitionist agenda against racial-thinking, underscoring the relationship between his post-race polemic and a post-visual discourse. We then discuss the challenges of studyi…
Media after the “Medial a Priori
Review of Sybille Krämer's Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016
Media after the “Medial a Priori
Review of Sybille Krämer's Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016
The subject of circulation
Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition
Book Review| July 01 2020 Transmediale’s Postdigital Proposition Across and Beyond: A Transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, edited by Bishop, Ryan; Gansing, Kristoffer; Parikka, Jussi; Wilk, Elvia, Berlin: Sternberg, 2016, 350 pages, €15.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-95679-289-2 Scott Wark Scott Wark Scott Wark is a research fellow for the Wellcome-funded project “People like You: Contemporary Figures of Personal…
What Personalisation Can Do for You! Or, How to Do Racial Discrimination Without Race
Between 2016 and 2020, Facebook allowed advertisers in the United States to target their advertisements using three broad “ethnic affinity” categories: “African American,” “U.S.-Hispanic,” and “Asian American.” This paper uses the life and death of these “ethnic affinity” categories to argue that they exemplify a novel mode of racialisation made possible by machine learning techniques. These categories worked by analysing users’ preferences and b…
Racial formations as data formations
This commentary uses Paul Gilroy's controversial claim that new technoscientific processes are instituting an 'end to race' as a provocation to discuss the epistemological transformation of race in algorithmic culture. We situate Gilroy's provocation within the context of an abolitionist agenda against racial-thinking, underscoring the relationship between his post-race polemic and a post-visual discourse. We then discuss the challenges of studyi…
A Media-Theoretical Armamentarium
This essay provides an introductory account of the concept of pharmakon and its uses in different traditions relevant to media theory. First, we chart existing media-theoretical uses of the pharmakon and the main points of reference in this body of work, such as Plato, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Second, we present the alternative genealogies of the pharmakon in reference to material, chemical and medical contexts. Taking the approach G…
Digital Valuation
This article describes the use of a prototype recommendation app to explore how users are included and/or excluded in categories of various kinds of ‘People Like You’. In the study, interviews with users of the prototype app indicate that the experience of receiving personalized recommendations isroutinely evaluated in terms of relevance, that is, as either of interest to them or as beside the point, as accurate or inaccurate, with accuracy often…
(Re)search results
This article uses the search engine as a heuristic for reflecting upon the extent to which knowledge production within the academy both shapes and is shaped by the media that it studies and with which its research is enabled. More specifically, it argues that the efficiency that has helped make search both a paradigmatic feature of digital culture and a habitual, everyday activity is achieved not just through speediness of results, but through a …
Computer Science (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · World Wide Web (3 obras) · Data science (2 obras) · Digital Education and Society (2 obras) · Digital Media and Philosophy (2 obras) · Engineering (2 obras)