Luis Felipe R Murillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 82657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Felipe R Murillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis Felipe R |
| FAMILY NAME | Murillo |
| SIGNATURE | MURILLO L F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0563-7783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“What is it between us?” Relational ethics for the study of Human–AI interaction
What is meant by relational ethics is of particular interest to practicing ethnographers (even for those of us who are not concentrated in the field of anthropology of morality and ethics). Zigon aims at surpassing long-lasting traditions in philosophy and anthropology with his hermeneutic work. The project is clearly ambitious. For the former, he intends to offer us an alternative to the dominant macroethical frameworks of virtue ethics, deontol…
When ‘Open’ is Still Far from Good Enough: The Work of Counter-Mapping with Political Software
What does “openness” mean when it comes to crafting digital tools and infrastructures for housing justice action research? This question is particularly urgent as global internet companies unleash new geospatial technologies to track and surveil. In this article, we examine the corporate software dependencies and organizational practices that the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) have encountered in its counter-mapping work. Free and Open Sour…
How to avoid the "infrastructural blues"? Studying-while-caring for data stewardship
When it comes to climate crisis research, current debates are increasingly thematizing the needs but also the challenges of collaborative, transdisciplinary work. Geophysical characterizations of climate change are increasingly deemed insufficient to respond to the challenges that vulnerable communities face worldwide. In this paper, I describe the work of studying-while-caring for an environmental data infrastructure in order to address this iss…
Care-fully: The Question of “Knowledge Co-production” in Arctic Science
Understanding and redressing the climate crisis in the Arctic demands acknowledging and translating perspectives from frontline communities, environmental scientists, Indigenous knowledge bearers, and social scientists. As a first approximation to the question of how Arctic scientists conceptualize and enact “knowledge co-production,” we analyze how they write about it in their academic publications through a systematic literature review. Based o…
Critical data ethics pedagogies: Three (non-rival) approaches
In a moment of heightened ethical questioning concerning data-intensive analytics, “data ethics” has become a site of dispute over its very definition in teaching, research, and practice. In this paper, we contextualize this dispute based on the experience of teaching data ethics. We describe how the field of computer ethics has historically informed the training of computer experts and how, in recent years, the scholarship on science and technol…
Hacking
Anthropology has been a shy but steady companion in the development of digital computing, whereas hackers have appeared only more recently in the ethnographic archive. This entry describes two major threads in the literature on hacking: the first anthropological and concerned with traditional topics of research (such as personhood, gift giving, magic, ritual, and morality) and the other interdisciplinary in nature. With a focus on the anthropolog…
Decentering Comparison, Questioning Holism: The Multi-sited Ethnographic Approach
Introduction: Computing in/from the South
In this introduction to the special section “Computing in/from the South,” we position the South as a method to change dominant frames about the past, present, and future of computing. We discuss three narratives frames—developmentalist, postcolonial, and decolonial—to trace a significant body of thinking on computing otherwise. We argue that each of these frames provides a different optic to emphasize the contributions of non-Western, feminist, …
Moral Circuits [Special Section]
In this essay, I offer an ethnographic-oriented cartoon as a reflection on a personal experience in moral circuits. First prepared for the 4S meeting in Boston (2017)—under the title “Pedal Transcriba, an Ethnographic Device of (and for) Qualitative Research”—it condenses one dimension of the work of multi-sited research across community spaces for alternative computing in the Pacific. My motivation was to derive the human circuitry from a simple…
Hackerspace Network: Prefiguring Technopolitical Futures
Under the practical symbol of "hacking," computer expertise has been translated into renewed forms of political action in the past two decades. In this article, I examine this phenomenon through the study of self-organized collectives for technoscientific experts who identify as "hackers." Based on multisited field research in global cities of the Pacific Rim, I describe the formation of a network of community spaces called "hackerspaces" with a …
What Does "Open Data" Mean for Ethnographic Research
New Expert Eyes Over Fukushima: Open Source Responses to the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
In this article, I explore the responses of the Open Source community to the Fukushima disaster by describing the development of collaborative technologies to measure radioactive contamination across Japan. Based on participant observation at Tokyo Hacker Space, this article addresses an emergent form of technoscientific expertise which is not confined to or legitimized by established institutions, but, rather, is distributed and organized around…
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism." The Social Science Journal, 52(1), pp. 86–87
Partial Perspectives in Astronomy: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality and Meshworks in Building Images of the Universe and Social Worlds
We present astronomers’ native visualization as techniques for representing and analyzing both the universe and their own social world. From our ongoing study we also present our preliminary ethnographic maps of the bundle of relationships used by women, minorities and foreign-born researchers to build careers in the field of astronomy. We discuss three ways of knowing visually. While the astronomers’ visualizations are based upon discrete entiti…
Birds of the Internet: Towards a Field Guide to the Organization and Governance of Participation
Scholarly attention to new forms of participation on the Internet has proliferated classifications and theories without providing any criteria for distinctions and diversity. Labels such as ‘peer production’, ‘prosumption’, ‘user-led innovation’ and ‘organized networks’ are intended to explain new forms of cultural and economic interaction mediated by the Internet, but lack any systematic way of distinguishing different cases. This article provid…
Birds of the Internet: Towards a Field Guide to the Organization and Governance of Participation
Scholarly attention to new forms of participation on the Internet has proliferated classifications and theories without providing any criteria for distinctions and diversity. Labels such as ‘peer production’, ‘prosumption’, ‘user-led innovation’ and ‘organized networks’ are intended to explain new forms of cultural and economic interaction mediated by the Internet, but lack any systematic way of distinguishing different cases. This article provid…
Hackerspace Network: Prefiguring Technopolitical Futures
Under the practical symbol of "hacking," computer expertise has been translated into renewed forms of political action in the past two decades. In this article, I examine this phenomenon through the study of self-organized collectives for technoscientific experts who identify as "hackers." Based on multisited field research in global cities of the Pacific Rim, I describe the formation of a network of community spaces called "hackerspaces" with a …
What Does "Open Data" Mean for Ethnographic Research
Birds of the Internet: Towards a Field Guide to the Organization and Governance of Participation
Scholarly attention to new forms of participation on the Internet has proliferated classifications and theories without providing any criteria for distinctions and diversity. Labels such as ‘peer production’, ‘prosumption’, ‘user-led innovation’ and ‘organized networks’ are intended to explain new forms of cultural and economic interaction mediated by the Internet, but lack any systematic way of distinguishing different cases. This article provid…
Partial Perspectives in Astronomy: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality and Meshworks in Building Images of the Universe and Social Worlds
We present astronomers’ native visualization as techniques for representing and analyzing both the universe and their own social world. From our ongoing study we also present our preliminary ethnographic maps of the bundle of relationships used by women, minorities and foreign-born researchers to build careers in the field of astronomy. We discuss three ways of knowing visually. While the astronomers’ visualizations are based upon discrete entiti…
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism." The Social Science Journal, 52(1), pp. 86–87
New Expert Eyes Over Fukushima: Open Source Responses to the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
In this article, I explore the responses of the Open Source community to the Fukushima disaster by describing the development of collaborative technologies to measure radioactive contamination across Japan. Based on participant observation at Tokyo Hacker Space, this article addresses an emergent form of technoscientific expertise which is not confined to or legitimized by established institutions, but, rather, is distributed and organized around…
What Does "Open Data" Mean for Ethnographic Research
Introduction: Computing in/from the South
In this introduction to the special section “Computing in/from the South,” we position the South as a method to change dominant frames about the past, present, and future of computing. We discuss three narratives frames—developmentalist, postcolonial, and decolonial—to trace a significant body of thinking on computing otherwise. We argue that each of these frames provides a different optic to emphasize the contributions of non-Western, feminist, …
Moral Circuits [Special Section]
In this essay, I offer an ethnographic-oriented cartoon as a reflection on a personal experience in moral circuits. First prepared for the 4S meeting in Boston (2017)—under the title “Pedal Transcriba, an Ethnographic Device of (and for) Qualitative Research”—it condenses one dimension of the work of multi-sited research across community spaces for alternative computing in the Pacific. My motivation was to derive the human circuitry from a simple…
Hackerspace Network: Prefiguring Technopolitical Futures
Under the practical symbol of "hacking," computer expertise has been translated into renewed forms of political action in the past two decades. In this article, I examine this phenomenon through the study of self-organized collectives for technoscientific experts who identify as "hackers." Based on multisited field research in global cities of the Pacific Rim, I describe the formation of a network of community spaces called "hackerspaces" with a …
Hacking
Anthropology has been a shy but steady companion in the development of digital computing, whereas hackers have appeared only more recently in the ethnographic archive. This entry describes two major threads in the literature on hacking: the first anthropological and concerned with traditional topics of research (such as personhood, gift giving, magic, ritual, and morality) and the other interdisciplinary in nature. With a focus on the anthropolog…
Decentering Comparison, Questioning Holism: The Multi-sited Ethnographic Approach
Care-fully: The Question of “Knowledge Co-production” in Arctic Science
Understanding and redressing the climate crisis in the Arctic demands acknowledging and translating perspectives from frontline communities, environmental scientists, Indigenous knowledge bearers, and social scientists. As a first approximation to the question of how Arctic scientists conceptualize and enact “knowledge co-production,” we analyze how they write about it in their academic publications through a systematic literature review. Based o…
Critical data ethics pedagogies: Three (non-rival) approaches
In a moment of heightened ethical questioning concerning data-intensive analytics, “data ethics” has become a site of dispute over its very definition in teaching, research, and practice. In this paper, we contextualize this dispute based on the experience of teaching data ethics. We describe how the field of computer ethics has historically informed the training of computer experts and how, in recent years, the scholarship on science and technol…
How to avoid the "infrastructural blues"? Studying-while-caring for data stewardship
When it comes to climate crisis research, current debates are increasingly thematizing the needs but also the challenges of collaborative, transdisciplinary work. Geophysical characterizations of climate change are increasingly deemed insufficient to respond to the challenges that vulnerable communities face worldwide. In this paper, I describe the work of studying-while-caring for an environmental data infrastructure in order to address this iss…
When ‘Open’ is Still Far from Good Enough: The Work of Counter-Mapping with Political Software
What does “openness” mean when it comes to crafting digital tools and infrastructures for housing justice action research? This question is particularly urgent as global internet companies unleash new geospatial technologies to track and surveil. In this article, we examine the corporate software dependencies and organizational practices that the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) have encountered in its counter-mapping work. Free and Open Sour…
“What is it between us?” Relational ethics for the study of Human–AI interaction
What is meant by relational ethics is of particular interest to practicing ethnographers (even for those of us who are not concentrated in the field of anthropology of morality and ethics). Zigon aims at surpassing long-lasting traditions in philosophy and anthropology with his hermeneutic work. The project is clearly ambitious. For the former, he intends to offer us an alternative to the dominant macroethical frameworks of virtue ethics, deontol…
Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (4 works)