Digital (mis)trust

Ethnographic Encounters With Computational Forms

Bibliographic Data

ID2181999
AuthorsJames Maguire (0000-0001-5081-1811, IT University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), K Albris (0000-0002-1201-2231, University of Copenhagen)
Year2024
Volume17
Issue6
Pages725-736
Publication date2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cultural Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-0350 • E-ISSN: 1753-0369
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17530350.2024.2407853
PMID39610872
OpenAlexW4404254376
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited52

Through a series of ethnographic encounters, its contributors describe how (mis)trust is rendered as an issue of concern by various actors as it is problematized, conceptualized, narrated, and designed for. In doing so, the papers analyse the work (mis)trust does in these settings, with a focus on the role of computational thinking within public discourses on democratic elections, the use of computational technologies in establishing bureaucratic order, the computational practices at play in the production of coding subjectivities, and the computational artefacts that assure data circulations within digital infrastructures. This introduction argues for a more expansive understanding of the relation between trust and mistrust in the digital age, countering the oftentimes default rendering of these concepts as antonymic. Instead, it argues that they live in a mutable relation. Despite prevailing technosolutionist approaches to (mis)trust, it cannot, we suggest, be solved for, resolved, or even eviscerated. Whatever actors (engineers, programmers, professionals etc) do in their efforts to 'fix' mistrust, it continues to mutate as a social form

Epistemology · Ethnography · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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