Miriam E Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam E Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam E |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7521-8050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Simulating Voice and the Simulacra of Voice Clones
Look Who’s Talking
Generative AI has quickly expanded voice cloning’s capabilities, while also lowering barriers for using this technology. Questions about how voice cloning may impact our claim to ownership over our voices remain open, with legal standards lagging in protections for everyday people. This suggests there is a critical need for researchers to develop more frameworks to understand the complexities of voice and voice data as emerging sites where extrac…
Evolving spatialities of digital life
While feminist geographers have long aimed to trouble the conceptions of the city/home (and, by extension, public/private) divides, the digital city and the digital home are still often theorized as separate phenomena within much digital geography literature. Drawing on previous work on feminist home-city geographies, this paper proposes four analytical frames for reflecting on the relationship between urban and domestic space in digital geograph…
Evolving Spatialities of Digital Life
Blunt and Sheringham (2019) call for home-city geographies but do not consider the role of digital technologies in mediating these relations (Koch and Miles, 2021). Digital geographers have largely examined manifestations of the digital city (smart city, platform urbanism, etc.) and the digital home separately. This paper explores the question of the smart home/city by reading it through a series of established analytical frames for reflecting on…
Digitizing the “Ideal” Latina Information Worker
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latina information ser…
Strategic Visibilities
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low-wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latinas information se…
Technically white
The inclusion of skin-tone modifiers into the standard emoji set marked a shift from the default white racialization of emoji towards explicit attempts to expand racial representation in the human emoji characters. This study explores the racial logics of emoji as culturally-situated artifacts that rely on linked understandings of race and technology. We conduct an interface analysis of emoji skin-tone modifiers, coupled with user discourse analy…
Designing the “good citizen” through Latina identity in Uscis’s virtual assistant “Emma”
Virtual assistants are increasingly integrated as “user-friendly” interfaces for e-government services. This research investigates the case study of the virtual assistant, “Emma,” that is integrated into the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. We conduct an interface analysis of Emma, along with the USCIS website, and related promotional materials, to explore the cultural affordances of Latina identity as a strateg…
Creating caring institutions for community informatics
This paper explores the potential affordances of applying a feminist ethics of care approach to community informatics practices in public internet access facilities. As feminist technology scholars have long observed, technology and technoculture are strongly encoded as masculine, privileging traits such as scientific knowledge, rationality, objectivity, and distance. These characteristics are expressed in traditional infomediary practices in a v…
Evolving spatialities of digital life
While feminist geographers have long aimed to trouble the conceptions of the city/home (and, by extension, public/private) divides, the digital city and the digital home are still often theorized as separate phenomena within much digital geography literature. Drawing on previous work on feminist home-city geographies, this paper proposes four analytical frames for reflecting on the relationship between urban and domestic space in digital geograph…
Creating caring institutions for community informatics
This paper explores the potential affordances of applying a feminist ethics of care approach to community informatics practices in public internet access facilities. As feminist technology scholars have long observed, technology and technoculture are strongly encoded as masculine, privileging traits such as scientific knowledge, rationality, objectivity, and distance. These characteristics are expressed in traditional infomediary practices in a v…
Technically white
The inclusion of skin-tone modifiers into the standard emoji set marked a shift from the default white racialization of emoji towards explicit attempts to expand racial representation in the human emoji characters. This study explores the racial logics of emoji as culturally-situated artifacts that rely on linked understandings of race and technology. We conduct an interface analysis of emoji skin-tone modifiers, coupled with user discourse analy…
Designing the “good citizen” through Latina identity in Uscis’s virtual assistant “Emma”
Virtual assistants are increasingly integrated as “user-friendly” interfaces for e-government services. This research investigates the case study of the virtual assistant, “Emma,” that is integrated into the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. We conduct an interface analysis of Emma, along with the USCIS website, and related promotional materials, to explore the cultural affordances of Latina identity as a strateg…
Strategic Visibilities
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low-wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latinas information se…
Digitizing the “Ideal” Latina Information Worker
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latina information ser…
Evolving Spatialities of Digital Life
Blunt and Sheringham (2019) call for home-city geographies but do not consider the role of digital technologies in mediating these relations (Koch and Miles, 2021). Digital geographers have largely examined manifestations of the digital city (smart city, platform urbanism, etc.) and the digital home separately. This paper explores the question of the smart home/city by reading it through a series of established analytical frames for reflecting on…
Evolving spatialities of digital life
While feminist geographers have long aimed to trouble the conceptions of the city/home (and, by extension, public/private) divides, the digital city and the digital home are still often theorized as separate phenomena within much digital geography literature. Drawing on previous work on feminist home-city geographies, this paper proposes four analytical frames for reflecting on the relationship between urban and domestic space in digital geograph…
Look Who’s Talking
Generative AI has quickly expanded voice cloning’s capabilities, while also lowering barriers for using this technology. Questions about how voice cloning may impact our claim to ownership over our voices remain open, with legal standards lagging in protections for everyday people. This suggests there is a critical need for researchers to develop more frameworks to understand the complexities of voice and voice data as emerging sites where extrac…
Simulating Voice and the Simulacra of Voice Clones
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Law (3 works)