Germaine Halegoua
Biographic Data
| ID | 4494059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Germaine Halegoua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Germaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Halegoua |
| SIGNATURE | HALEGOUA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sensing” productivity at home: Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women work…
Negotiating the capacities and limitations of sensor-mediated care in the home
In-home sensor systems supported by machine learning are increasingly used to enhance communication between those living with long-term conditions such as dementia and healthcare professionals and carers who support them. Perspectives from the sociology of infrastructures are used to explore the development and deployment of such a system of smart care, drawing on interviews with researchers and developers, healthcare professionals and service us…
Smart Cities
Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems. Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles …
Locating Emerging Media
Videogames were one of the earliest ways in which consumers came into contact with digital media. Typically, game history has been told from a North American or Japanese perspective. Central debates have been concerned with what “great men” did (e.g., Ralph Baer and Nolan Bushnell), while a range of foundational stories and markers (the shortage of 100yen coins following the Japanese release of “Space Invaders,” the dumping of “E.T.” cartridges i…
Calling all ‘fiberhoods’: Google Fiber and the politics of visibility
This article examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010 to 2012, the article highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and signif…
Calling all ‘fiberhoods’: Google Fiber and the politics of visibility
This article examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010 to 2012, the article highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and signif…
Sensing” productivity at home: Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women work…
Calling all ‘fiberhoods’: Google Fiber and the politics of visibility
This article examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010 to 2012, the article highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and signif…
Locating Emerging Media
Videogames were one of the earliest ways in which consumers came into contact with digital media. Typically, game history has been told from a North American or Japanese perspective. Central debates have been concerned with what “great men” did (e.g., Ralph Baer and Nolan Bushnell), while a range of foundational stories and markers (the shortage of 100yen coins following the Japanese release of “Space Invaders,” the dumping of “E.T.” cartridges i…
Smart Cities
Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems. Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles …
Sensing” productivity at home: Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women work…
Negotiating the capacities and limitations of sensor-mediated care in the home
In-home sensor systems supported by machine learning are increasingly used to enhance communication between those living with long-term conditions such as dementia and healthcare professionals and carers who support them. Perspectives from the sociology of infrastructures are used to explore the development and deployment of such a system of smart care, drawing on interviews with researchers and developers, healthcare professionals and service us…
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Internet privacy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)