Geoffrey Mead
Biographic Data
| ID | 5945147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Mead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Mead |
| SIGNATURE | MEAD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3908-8225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resisting artificial intelligence, automated-decision making, and algorithmic power
Despite increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making by governments and employers, an understanding of how users resist them is lacking. We conducted a systematic review of studies capturing algorithmic resistance published between 2000 and 2021, subjecting 7996 to a comprehensive screening process that yielded seven studies for analysis. These studies, focused on digital labor platforms and social media algorithms,…
How Algorithmic Technologies ‘Constitute’ the Older Body
The cultural politics of the ‘problematic’ ageing body have led to a search for solutions in the form of algorithmic technologies. In this article, we look at one problem associated with the ageing body—unintentional falls—and one proposed algorithmic intervention: wearable fall‐detection technology. In dialogue with sociologists concerned with the cultural politics of the older body, we aim to understand what contribution this fledgling technolo…
Breaking or Repairing Long-Term Care for Older People
From robots to chatbots, AI technologies in care (nursing) homes have gained policymakers’ attention amid critical issues like staffing shortages. Concurrently, the long-term care sector has become a prime target for technologists due to its global market potential given the growing ageing population. Drawing conceptually on ideas of breakdown and repair, we explore socio-technical discourses of AI-based care for later life. We combine Bruno Lato…
Contested delegation
In public and private sectors alike, decision-making is increasingly carried out through the employment of ‘algorithmic actors’ and artificial intelligence. The apparent efficiency of these means in the eyes of politicians and the public has made recourse to them possible. Along with this belief in their efficiency, however, fears emerge that nonhuman actors have displaced judicious human decision-making. This article examines this belief and its…
Digital Technology and Older People
Despite increasing social pressure to use new digital technologies, older people's adoption of them remains below other age groups. This article contributes a sociological dimension to exploring what facilitates learning and using digital technology in later life. We focus on the understudied group of older people who are frail, living in care homes and most likely to be digitally excluded or restricted. Drawing on data from a longitudinal mixed …
Proper recognition
Sociologists maintain an ambivalent relationship to the category of the person, even more so at a time when the category is deemed insufficient for analysis yet appears increasingly significant within the world it purports to capture. This article begins with this ascending significance of the person in the neoliberal world of work, where the personal accumulation of skills and devolution of responsibility to individuals are privileged. Theoretic…
Forms of knowledge and the love of necessity in Bourdieu's clinical sociology
The potential for sociological knowledge to assist in counteracting deleterious social forces remains a live problem. The present article approaches this from the perspective of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and offers an explication of what can be called Bourdieu's 'clinical sociology'. This approach presents specifically personal modes of 'counteracting' those social forces that entrench themselves in the body. The article begins by examining th…
The Case of Kabylia
A recurrent paradox accompanies Pierre Bourdieu's description of his relation to his earliest field site: the people of Kabylia are frequently evoked as 'at once exotic and familiar'. In the present article I ask what conditions must prevail for such a depiction to be possible. Taking up work conducted in recent years concerning the details of Bourdieu's fieldwork, its theoretical presuppositions, and its place within the declining French empire,…
Bourdieu and conscious deliberation
Social theorists in recent years have concerned themselves with the matter of the kind and intensity of people's everyday reflective capacities. In this respect, Bourdieu has mostly been found wanting. This article seeks to counter this sentiment with recourse to an 'anti-mechanistic' reading of Bourdieu's theory of practice. It begins by arguing that in imposing a strict delineation between consciousness and habitus, Bourdieu and his critics ali…
Bourdieu and conscious deliberation
Social theorists in recent years have concerned themselves with the matter of the kind and intensity of people's everyday reflective capacities. In this respect, Bourdieu has mostly been found wanting. This article seeks to counter this sentiment with recourse to an 'anti-mechanistic' reading of Bourdieu's theory of practice. It begins by arguing that in imposing a strict delineation between consciousness and habitus, Bourdieu and his critics ali…
Digital Technology and Older People
Despite increasing social pressure to use new digital technologies, older people's adoption of them remains below other age groups. This article contributes a sociological dimension to exploring what facilitates learning and using digital technology in later life. We focus on the understudied group of older people who are frail, living in care homes and most likely to be digitally excluded or restricted. Drawing on data from a longitudinal mixed …
Contested delegation
In public and private sectors alike, decision-making is increasingly carried out through the employment of ‘algorithmic actors’ and artificial intelligence. The apparent efficiency of these means in the eyes of politicians and the public has made recourse to them possible. Along with this belief in their efficiency, however, fears emerge that nonhuman actors have displaced judicious human decision-making. This article examines this belief and its…
Proper recognition
Sociologists maintain an ambivalent relationship to the category of the person, even more so at a time when the category is deemed insufficient for analysis yet appears increasingly significant within the world it purports to capture. This article begins with this ascending significance of the person in the neoliberal world of work, where the personal accumulation of skills and devolution of responsibility to individuals are privileged. Theoretic…
The Case of Kabylia
A recurrent paradox accompanies Pierre Bourdieu's description of his relation to his earliest field site: the people of Kabylia are frequently evoked as 'at once exotic and familiar'. In the present article I ask what conditions must prevail for such a depiction to be possible. Taking up work conducted in recent years concerning the details of Bourdieu's fieldwork, its theoretical presuppositions, and its place within the declining French empire,…
The Case of Kabylia
A recurrent paradox accompanies Pierre Bourdieu's description of his relation to his earliest field site: the people of Kabylia are frequently evoked as 'at once exotic and familiar'. In the present article I ask what conditions must prevail for such a depiction to be possible. Taking up work conducted in recent years concerning the details of Bourdieu's fieldwork, its theoretical presuppositions, and its place within the declining French empire,…
Bourdieu and conscious deliberation
Social theorists in recent years have concerned themselves with the matter of the kind and intensity of people's everyday reflective capacities. In this respect, Bourdieu has mostly been found wanting. This article seeks to counter this sentiment with recourse to an 'anti-mechanistic' reading of Bourdieu's theory of practice. It begins by arguing that in imposing a strict delineation between consciousness and habitus, Bourdieu and his critics ali…
Forms of knowledge and the love of necessity in Bourdieu's clinical sociology
The potential for sociological knowledge to assist in counteracting deleterious social forces remains a live problem. The present article approaches this from the perspective of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and offers an explication of what can be called Bourdieu's 'clinical sociology'. This approach presents specifically personal modes of 'counteracting' those social forces that entrench themselves in the body. The article begins by examining th…
Digital Technology and Older People
Despite increasing social pressure to use new digital technologies, older people's adoption of them remains below other age groups. This article contributes a sociological dimension to exploring what facilitates learning and using digital technology in later life. We focus on the understudied group of older people who are frail, living in care homes and most likely to be digitally excluded or restricted. Drawing on data from a longitudinal mixed …
Proper recognition
Sociologists maintain an ambivalent relationship to the category of the person, even more so at a time when the category is deemed insufficient for analysis yet appears increasingly significant within the world it purports to capture. This article begins with this ascending significance of the person in the neoliberal world of work, where the personal accumulation of skills and devolution of responsibility to individuals are privileged. Theoretic…
Contested delegation
In public and private sectors alike, decision-making is increasingly carried out through the employment of ‘algorithmic actors’ and artificial intelligence. The apparent efficiency of these means in the eyes of politicians and the public has made recourse to them possible. Along with this belief in their efficiency, however, fears emerge that nonhuman actors have displaced judicious human decision-making. This article examines this belief and its…
Breaking or Repairing Long-Term Care for Older People
From robots to chatbots, AI technologies in care (nursing) homes have gained policymakers’ attention amid critical issues like staffing shortages. Concurrently, the long-term care sector has become a prime target for technologists due to its global market potential given the growing ageing population. Drawing conceptually on ideas of breakdown and repair, we explore socio-technical discourses of AI-based care for later life. We combine Bruno Lato…
Resisting artificial intelligence, automated-decision making, and algorithmic power
Despite increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making by governments and employers, an understanding of how users resist them is lacking. We conducted a systematic review of studies capturing algorithmic resistance published between 2000 and 2021, subjecting 7996 to a comprehensive screening process that yielded seven studies for analysis. These studies, focused on digital labor platforms and social media algorithms,…
How Algorithmic Technologies ‘Constitute’ the Older Body
The cultural politics of the ‘problematic’ ageing body have led to a search for solutions in the form of algorithmic technologies. In this article, we look at one problem associated with the ageing body—unintentional falls—and one proposed algorithmic intervention: wearable fall‐detection technology. In dialogue with sociologists concerned with the cultural politics of the older body, we aim to understand what contribution this fledgling technolo…
Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works)