Yu-Shan Tseng
Biographic Data
| ID | 384567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yu-Shan Tseng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yu-Shan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tseng |
| SIGNATURE | TSENG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3728-314X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Everywhere to Somewhere
Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism
This intervention seeks to advance geographical interpretations of the body as the ‘usual’ and ‘universal’ site for understanding subjectivity and spirituality in human geography. Affective and emotional geographies have predominantly located subjective experiences within the lived body—the site where bodies actively engage with the world through embodied practices such as sensing, affecting and feeling. Through these bodily engagements with the …
Liquid Democracy
"This timely book carefully interrogates the increasingly fraught intersections of the digital, the city, and democracy. It is a book that will endure, bristling as it is with thoughtful reflection and insight on the democratic challenges that unfold amidst the ordinary, troubled and generative digital worlds of cities as different as Madrid, Taipei and Helsinki. Amidst the work of policymakers, activists, and engineers, what emerges is a hopeful…
Minor geographies of resistance in platform cities
Platform cities is a term that describes the phenomenon of urban spaces becoming increasingly produced through the mediations of digital platforms. Resistance in platform cities is often understood from an antagonistic space, where platform workers resist against the political economic spaces from the outside, such as acts of subversion, insurgency and refusal. Resistance that reproduces antagonistic politics has limited chances in transforming s…
Sorting a public? Using quali-quantitative methods to interrogate the role of algorithms in digital democracy platforms
Following concerns about social media’s role in politics (fostering polarization and spreading disinformation), many activists and civic hackers have developed alternative digital democracy platforms for both deliberation and the representation of public opinion. But how are we to study the role of these platforms, and in particular, their algorithms in the development of issues and the publics that gather around them? This article employs a simp…
Dialectical approach to unpacking knowledge-making for digital urban democracy
This article investigates how OmaStadi, a Finnish platform for digital participatory budgeting, legitimises certain urban knowledge and experiences to receive public resources from the City of Helsinki. Using a quali-quantitative critical case study that combines quantitative data analysis, interviews and participatory observation, we advocate a dialectical approach for unpacking OmaStadi’s potential and limitations for democracy. It represents a…
Assemblage thinking as a methodology for studying urban AI phenomena
This paper seeks to bypass assumptions that researchers in critical algorithmic studies and urban studies find it difficult to study algorithmic systems due to their black-boxed nature. In addition, it seeks to work against the assumption that advocating for transparency in algorithms is, therefore, the key for achieving an enhanced understanding of the role of algorithmic technologies on modern life. Drawing on applied assemblage thinking via th…
Rethinking gamified democracy as frictional
Gamification in digital design harnesses game-like elements to create rewarding and competitive systems that encourage desirable user behaviour by influencing users’ bodily actions and emotions. Recently, gamification has been integrated into platforms built to fix democratic problems such as boredom and disengagement in political participation. This paper draws on an ethnographic study of two such platforms – Decide Madrid and vTaiwan – to probl…
Algorithmic empowerment
Scholars of critical algorithmic studies, including those from geography, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies and communication studies, have begun to consider how algorithmic devices and platforms facilitate democratic practices. In this article, I draw on a comparative ethnography of two alternative open-source algorithmic platforms - Decide Madrid and vTaiwan - to consider how they are dynamically constituted by differing algorithmic-…
Rethinking gamified democracy as frictional
Gamification in digital design harnesses game-like elements to create rewarding and competitive systems that encourage desirable user behaviour by influencing users’ bodily actions and emotions. Recently, gamification has been integrated into platforms built to fix democratic problems such as boredom and disengagement in political participation. This paper draws on an ethnographic study of two such platforms – Decide Madrid and vTaiwan – to probl…
Dialectical approach to unpacking knowledge-making for digital urban democracy
This article investigates how OmaStadi, a Finnish platform for digital participatory budgeting, legitimises certain urban knowledge and experiences to receive public resources from the City of Helsinki. Using a quali-quantitative critical case study that combines quantitative data analysis, interviews and participatory observation, we advocate a dialectical approach for unpacking OmaStadi’s potential and limitations for democracy. It represents a…
Algorithmic empowerment
Scholars of critical algorithmic studies, including those from geography, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies and communication studies, have begun to consider how algorithmic devices and platforms facilitate democratic practices. In this article, I draw on a comparative ethnography of two alternative open-source algorithmic platforms - Decide Madrid and vTaiwan - to consider how they are dynamically constituted by differing algorithmic-…
Algorithmic empowerment
Scholars of critical algorithmic studies, including those from geography, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies and communication studies, have begun to consider how algorithmic devices and platforms facilitate democratic practices. In this article, I draw on a comparative ethnography of two alternative open-source algorithmic platforms - Decide Madrid and vTaiwan - to consider how they are dynamically constituted by differing algorithmic-…
Assemblage thinking as a methodology for studying urban AI phenomena
This paper seeks to bypass assumptions that researchers in critical algorithmic studies and urban studies find it difficult to study algorithmic systems due to their black-boxed nature. In addition, it seeks to work against the assumption that advocating for transparency in algorithms is, therefore, the key for achieving an enhanced understanding of the role of algorithmic technologies on modern life. Drawing on applied assemblage thinking via th…
Rethinking gamified democracy as frictional
Gamification in digital design harnesses game-like elements to create rewarding and competitive systems that encourage desirable user behaviour by influencing users’ bodily actions and emotions. Recently, gamification has been integrated into platforms built to fix democratic problems such as boredom and disengagement in political participation. This paper draws on an ethnographic study of two such platforms – Decide Madrid and vTaiwan – to probl…
Sorting a public? Using quali-quantitative methods to interrogate the role of algorithms in digital democracy platforms
Following concerns about social media’s role in politics (fostering polarization and spreading disinformation), many activists and civic hackers have developed alternative digital democracy platforms for both deliberation and the representation of public opinion. But how are we to study the role of these platforms, and in particular, their algorithms in the development of issues and the publics that gather around them? This article employs a simp…
Dialectical approach to unpacking knowledge-making for digital urban democracy
This article investigates how OmaStadi, a Finnish platform for digital participatory budgeting, legitimises certain urban knowledge and experiences to receive public resources from the City of Helsinki. Using a quali-quantitative critical case study that combines quantitative data analysis, interviews and participatory observation, we advocate a dialectical approach for unpacking OmaStadi’s potential and limitations for democracy. It represents a…
Liquid Democracy
"This timely book carefully interrogates the increasingly fraught intersections of the digital, the city, and democracy. It is a book that will endure, bristling as it is with thoughtful reflection and insight on the democratic challenges that unfold amidst the ordinary, troubled and generative digital worlds of cities as different as Madrid, Taipei and Helsinki. Amidst the work of policymakers, activists, and engineers, what emerges is a hopeful…
Minor geographies of resistance in platform cities
Platform cities is a term that describes the phenomenon of urban spaces becoming increasingly produced through the mediations of digital platforms. Resistance in platform cities is often understood from an antagonistic space, where platform workers resist against the political economic spaces from the outside, such as acts of subversion, insurgency and refusal. Resistance that reproduces antagonistic politics has limited chances in transforming s…
From Everywhere to Somewhere
Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism
This intervention seeks to advance geographical interpretations of the body as the ‘usual’ and ‘universal’ site for understanding subjectivity and spirituality in human geography. Affective and emotional geographies have predominantly located subjective experiences within the lived body—the site where bodies actively engage with the world through embodied practices such as sensing, affecting and feeling. Through these bodily engagements with the …
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Data science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Law (3 works)