J Cearns
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 67891 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Cearns |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Cearns |
| ASSINATURA | CEARNS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6498-1766 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence by machines, allowing them to perform tasks that typically require human cognitive functions, such as problem-solving, learning, decision-making, and understanding language. AI systems use algorithms and vast amounts of data to recognise patterns, make predictions, and improve performance over time, or to generate new content, such as text, images, music, or code. Applications o…
Ex Machina
This essay examines romantic relationships between humans and AI companions, focusing on how technological breakdowns are experienced as emotional crises. Drawing on digital ethnography and interviews, it explores how users interpret their AI’s malfunctions—such as hallucinations, memory loss, or sudden shutdowns—through metaphors of illness, dementia, and death. These affective responses reveal that users do not treat AI companions merely as too…
The Afterlife of Data
Through the looking glass
Divining Truth
This article considers predictive AI as a cultural epistemological form akin to divination, which is to say, a future-oriented technology of knowledge that concerns itself with risk and uncertainty. The article explores some of the cultural logics that are embedded within AI, namely, the cultural history of 'intelligence' and how specific ways of knowing the world are encoded into the technology. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in both the US a…
Kinship through code, personhood as node
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the 'edges' of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and reconfiguring established anthropological categories. Drawing on theories of personhood and kinship, …
Time against race
This article examines the appetite for historic preservation in Miami within broader colonialist and moralising discourses of 'civilising' the wilderness and of aesthetic 'merit' that go back to the foundation of the city. It argues that a growing sense of anxiety, stoked by increasing waves of migration into Miami, is at the heart of this emphasis upon historic preservation, but is also at work in the delineation of what types of structure merit…
Safeguarding Data
Over the past decade, data-driven systems have transformed how UK public services engage with the population. This ethnographic study, conducted in one of the United Kingdom's poorest boroughs, investigates the implementation of a machine learning data system for identifying at-risk children in need of safeguarding. It examines the concept of a 'data consensus' amongst council workers pursuing the 'public good'. Within this consensus, the article…
Social [Media] Distancing
This article examines the role of digital ethnographic methods in an emerging research landscape struck by COVID-19, whereby more traditional anthropological methods have been rendered impossible due to social distancing restrictions. It argues that while anthropology has long privileged physical proximity and presence as a central tenet of ethnographic method, digital methods can also afford a certain sense of social distance, which in fact can …
Narrating the Nation
Miami's sizeable Cuban diaspora has long used museums and galleries to produce and preserve their sense of community, united through the loss inherent to exile. Recent influxes of migration from Cuba (and beyond) are increasingly interpreted as a threat to the cultural forms many consider an “authentic” preservation of something now lost to Castro's Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen months of ethnographic research within several of these organizat…
"The "Mula Ring
Este artículo está basado en quince meses de trabajo de campo etnográfico en Cuba, los EE. UU., México, Panamá y Guyana para describir una red transnacional emergente de circulación de materiales que llamo el "circuito mula." Muestro cómo los cubanos movilizan vastas redes transnacionales para realizar sus sistemas de circulación de materiales en la actualidad. Estas redes equivalen a una economía en sí misma que está redefiniendo lo que signific…
"The "Mula Ring
Este artículo está basado en quince meses de trabajo de campo etnográfico en Cuba, los EE. UU., México, Panamá y Guyana para describir una red transnacional emergente de circulación de materiales que llamo el "circuito mula." Muestro cómo los cubanos movilizan vastas redes transnacionales para realizar sus sistemas de circulación de materiales en la actualidad. Estas redes equivalen a una economía en sí misma que está redefiniendo lo que signific…
Time against race
This article examines the appetite for historic preservation in Miami within broader colonialist and moralising discourses of 'civilising' the wilderness and of aesthetic 'merit' that go back to the foundation of the city. It argues that a growing sense of anxiety, stoked by increasing waves of migration into Miami, is at the heart of this emphasis upon historic preservation, but is also at work in the delineation of what types of structure merit…
Narrating the Nation
Miami's sizeable Cuban diaspora has long used museums and galleries to produce and preserve their sense of community, united through the loss inherent to exile. Recent influxes of migration from Cuba (and beyond) are increasingly interpreted as a threat to the cultural forms many consider an “authentic” preservation of something now lost to Castro's Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen months of ethnographic research within several of these organizat…
"The "Mula Ring
Este artículo está basado en quince meses de trabajo de campo etnográfico en Cuba, los EE. UU., México, Panamá y Guyana para describir una red transnacional emergente de circulación de materiales que llamo el "circuito mula." Muestro cómo los cubanos movilizan vastas redes transnacionales para realizar sus sistemas de circulación de materiales en la actualidad. Estas redes equivalen a una economía en sí misma que está redefiniendo lo que signific…
Narrating the Nation
Miami's sizeable Cuban diaspora has long used museums and galleries to produce and preserve their sense of community, united through the loss inherent to exile. Recent influxes of migration from Cuba (and beyond) are increasingly interpreted as a threat to the cultural forms many consider an “authentic” preservation of something now lost to Castro's Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen months of ethnographic research within several of these organizat…
Social [Media] Distancing
This article examines the role of digital ethnographic methods in an emerging research landscape struck by COVID-19, whereby more traditional anthropological methods have been rendered impossible due to social distancing restrictions. It argues that while anthropology has long privileged physical proximity and presence as a central tenet of ethnographic method, digital methods can also afford a certain sense of social distance, which in fact can …
Safeguarding Data
Over the past decade, data-driven systems have transformed how UK public services engage with the population. This ethnographic study, conducted in one of the United Kingdom's poorest boroughs, investigates the implementation of a machine learning data system for identifying at-risk children in need of safeguarding. It examines the concept of a 'data consensus' amongst council workers pursuing the 'public good'. Within this consensus, the article…
The Afterlife of Data
Through the looking glass
Divining Truth
This article considers predictive AI as a cultural epistemological form akin to divination, which is to say, a future-oriented technology of knowledge that concerns itself with risk and uncertainty. The article explores some of the cultural logics that are embedded within AI, namely, the cultural history of 'intelligence' and how specific ways of knowing the world are encoded into the technology. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in both the US a…
Kinship through code, personhood as node
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the 'edges' of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and reconfiguring established anthropological categories. Drawing on theories of personhood and kinship, …
Time against race
This article examines the appetite for historic preservation in Miami within broader colonialist and moralising discourses of 'civilising' the wilderness and of aesthetic 'merit' that go back to the foundation of the city. It argues that a growing sense of anxiety, stoked by increasing waves of migration into Miami, is at the heart of this emphasis upon historic preservation, but is also at work in the delineation of what types of structure merit…
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence by machines, allowing them to perform tasks that typically require human cognitive functions, such as problem-solving, learning, decision-making, and understanding language. AI systems use algorithms and vast amounts of data to recognise patterns, make predictions, and improve performance over time, or to generate new content, such as text, images, music, or code. Applications o…
Ex Machina
This essay examines romantic relationships between humans and AI companions, focusing on how technological breakdowns are experienced as emotional crises. Drawing on digital ethnography and interviews, it explores how users interpret their AI’s malfunctions—such as hallucinations, memory loss, or sudden shutdowns—through metaphors of illness, dementia, and death. These affective responses reveal that users do not treat AI companions merely as too…
Political science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras)