A Bestiary of Digital Monsters

Rachel Douglas-Jones; John Mark Burnett; Marisa Cohn; Christopher Gad; Michael Hockenhull; Bastian Jørgensen; James Maguire; Mace Ojala; Brit Ross Winthereik

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04091-8_13

A Bestiary of Digital Monsters

Rachel Douglas-Jones, John Mark Burnett, Marisa Cohn, Christopher Gad, Michael Hockenhull, Bastian Jørgensen, James Maguire, Mace Ojala, Brit Ross Winthereik

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Abstract

This article puts forward a bestiary of digital monsters. By bringing into dialogue scholarship in monster theory with that in science and technology studies, we develop the idea of the bestiary as a way of exploring sites where digital monsters are made. We discuss the role of bestiaries in narrating anxieties about the present. We proceed to populate our bestiary with various sociotechnical ‘beasts’ arising in collaborative research project on new data relations in Denmark. The paper argues for the place of the ever-incomplete bestiary in understanding digital monsters, for the bestiary’s role as a gathering point within our project, and for its capacities to speak beyond a single research setting. Through the bestiary, we look toward the ways we already live with monsters and to the forms of analysis available for describing the beasts in our midst.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Living with Monsters? : Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2018
Pages	177-190
Chapter	13
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-04090-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04091-8_13
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Living with Monsters - San Francisco State Univesrity, San Francisco, United States Duration: 11 Dec 2018 → 12 Dec 2018 http://2018conf.ifipwg82.org/

Conference

Conference	Living with Monsters
Location	San Francisco State Univesrity
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	11/12/2018 → 12/12/2018
Internet address	http://2018conf.ifipwg82.org/

Series	IFIP AICT - Advances in Information and Communication technology
Volume	543
ISSN	1868-4238

Keywords

ethnography
Digitization
monsters

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Douglas-Jones, R, Burnett, JM, Cohn, M , Gad, C , Hockenhull, M, Jørgensen, B, Maguire, J, Ojala, M & Winthereik, BR 2018, A Bestiary of Digital Monsters. in Living with Monsters?: Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. Springer, IFIP AICT - Advances in Information and Communication technology, vol. 543, pp. 177-190, Living with Monsters, San Francisco, United States, 11/12/2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04091-8_13

A Bestiary of Digital Monsters. / Douglas-Jones, Rachel; Burnett, John Mark; Cohn, Marisa et al.
Living with Monsters?: Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. Springer, 2018. p. 177-190 (IFIP AICT - Advances in Information and Communication technology, Vol. 543).

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