Ross Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1549-1071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Determined to succeed
Governments have struggled with addressing problems that cross agency boundaries. Since 2012, the New Zealand Government has achieved significant success by holding groups of agencies collectively responsible for achieving intermediate outcome targets (the ‘Results Programme’). The Results Programme has been described as the most important change in how public services are delivered in New Zealand in 20 years. This article uses a mixed methods ap…
Where are the people? What are they doing? Why are they doing it?'(Mindell) Situating artificial intelligence within a socio-technical framework
This article explores the sociology of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on interactions between social actors and technological processes. The aim is to locate social actors in the key elements of Bell's framework for understanding AI, featuring big data, algorithms, machine learning, sensors and rationale/logic. We dispute notions of human autonomy and machine autonomy, seeking alternatives to both anthropocentric and technological determi…
Technology, innovation, employment and power
How far do recent innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence herald an unprecedented economic and social transformation? This article provides a critical evaluation of this question, challenging the relentless technological determinism of much debate, and reframing the issues involved within a political-economic and sociological approach. This focuses on the economic, political and historical dynamics of technological innovation, and its…
Joined‐Up for What? Response to Carey and Harris on Adaptive Collaboration
Carey and Harris present the concept of adaptive management as a practice for supporting effective collaboration, suggesting that performance information be used to modify actions. They observe that end‐outcome performance information is less useful because of long delays between actions and effects, and recommend instead that the performance information should concern the collaborative process itself. The New Zealand government has followed a si…
Reconstituting Water? Climate Change, Water Policy Reform and Community Relations in South Australian Remote Towns
Water is a principal medium of exchange within communities facing changing climate patterns and the ‘new dry’. For some parts of the globe water has been taken-for-granted, uncontested, yet for others highly variable, scarce and a measure of global and national inequalities. Australia as a large and diverse landmass is emblematic of those varied water contexts, yet as a whole, and after the recent ‘100-year drought’, water has become heavily regu…
Technology, innovation, employment and power
How far do recent innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence herald an unprecedented economic and social transformation? This article provides a critical evaluation of this question, challenging the relentless technological determinism of much debate, and reframing the issues involved within a political-economic and sociological approach. This focuses on the economic, political and historical dynamics of technological innovation, and its…
Joined‐Up for What? Response to Carey and Harris on Adaptive Collaboration
Carey and Harris present the concept of adaptive management as a practice for supporting effective collaboration, suggesting that performance information be used to modify actions. They observe that end‐outcome performance information is less useful because of long delays between actions and effects, and recommend instead that the performance information should concern the collaborative process itself. The New Zealand government has followed a si…
Determined to succeed
Governments have struggled with addressing problems that cross agency boundaries. Since 2012, the New Zealand Government has achieved significant success by holding groups of agencies collectively responsible for achieving intermediate outcome targets (the ‘Results Programme’). The Results Programme has been described as the most important change in how public services are delivered in New Zealand in 20 years. This article uses a mixed methods ap…
Where are the people? What are they doing? Why are they doing it?'(Mindell) Situating artificial intelligence within a socio-technical framework
This article explores the sociology of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on interactions between social actors and technological processes. The aim is to locate social actors in the key elements of Bell's framework for understanding AI, featuring big data, algorithms, machine learning, sensors and rationale/logic. We dispute notions of human autonomy and machine autonomy, seeking alternatives to both anthropocentric and technological determi…
Reconstituting Water? Climate Change, Water Policy Reform and Community Relations in South Australian Remote Towns
Water is a principal medium of exchange within communities facing changing climate patterns and the ‘new dry’. For some parts of the globe water has been taken-for-granted, uncontested, yet for others highly variable, scarce and a measure of global and national inequalities. Australia as a large and diverse landmass is emblematic of those varied water contexts, yet as a whole, and after the recent ‘100-year drought’, water has become heavily regu…
Joined‐Up for What? Response to Carey and Harris on Adaptive Collaboration
Carey and Harris present the concept of adaptive management as a practice for supporting effective collaboration, suggesting that performance information be used to modify actions. They observe that end‐outcome performance information is less useful because of long delays between actions and effects, and recommend instead that the performance information should concern the collaborative process itself. The New Zealand government has followed a si…
Technology, innovation, employment and power
How far do recent innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence herald an unprecedented economic and social transformation? This article provides a critical evaluation of this question, challenging the relentless technological determinism of much debate, and reframing the issues involved within a political-economic and sociological approach. This focuses on the economic, political and historical dynamics of technological innovation, and its…
Where are the people? What are they doing? Why are they doing it?'(Mindell) Situating artificial intelligence within a socio-technical framework
This article explores the sociology of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on interactions between social actors and technological processes. The aim is to locate social actors in the key elements of Bell's framework for understanding AI, featuring big data, algorithms, machine learning, sensors and rationale/logic. We dispute notions of human autonomy and machine autonomy, seeking alternatives to both anthropocentric and technological determi…
Determined to succeed
Governments have struggled with addressing problems that cross agency boundaries. Since 2012, the New Zealand Government has achieved significant success by holding groups of agencies collectively responsible for achieving intermediate outcome targets (the ‘Results Programme’). The Results Programme has been described as the most important change in how public services are delivered in New Zealand in 20 years. This article uses a mixed methods ap…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Determinism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Management (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works)