At the Edge of AI

At the Edge of AI

Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations

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Publication Date: 26th November 2024

This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making. Read More
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This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making. Read More
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How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the interplay of various actors and play/science entanglements at the edge of AI. Focusing on their human-technology relations, this ethnographic study shows how these formations are marked by intraversions, as they change with technological advancements and the actors' goals, motivations, and practices. This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making.
Details
  • Price: $55.00
  • Pages: 330
  • Publisher: transcript publishing
  • Imprint: transcript publishing
  • Series: Science Studies
  • Publication Date: 26th November 2024
  • Trim Size: 6.1 x 9.45 in
  • Illustration Note: 1 ill., 10 col. ill.
  • ISBN: 9783837672282
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
    SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Author Bio
Libuse Hannah Veprek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. The cultural anthropologist and computer scientist completed her doctorate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in the context of the »Playing in the Loop« project (2021-2024) funded by the German Research Foundation. Her main research areas are digital anthropology, anthropology of technology, science and technology studies, moral anthropology and ethics of technology, and digital methods.
Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
List of Figures 9
List of Abbreviations 11
1 Introduction: "We're Doing Something Completely New" 13
2 Approaching Human Computation-Based Citizen Science Analytically 33
3 Methodology: Encountering Human Computation Ethnographically 79
4 Envisioning and Designing the Future 101
5 Multiple Meanings and Everyday Negotiations: Play/Science Entanglements 139
6 Intraversions: Human-Technology Relations in Flux 183
7 Building Trust in and With Human Computation 247
8 Conclusions 273
Glossary 281
References 283

How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the interplay of various actors and play/science entanglements at the edge of AI. Focusing on their human-technology relations, this ethnographic study shows how these formations are marked by intraversions, as they change with technological advancements and the actors' goals, motivations, and practices. This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making.
  • Price: $55.00
  • Pages: 330
  • Publisher: transcript publishing
  • Imprint: transcript publishing
  • Series: Science Studies
  • Publication Date: 26th November 2024
  • Trim Size: 6.1 x 9.45 in
  • Illustrations Note: 1 ill., 10 col. ill.
  • ISBN: 9783837672282
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
    SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Libuse Hannah Veprek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. The cultural anthropologist and computer scientist completed her doctorate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in the context of the »Playing in the Loop« project (2021-2024) funded by the German Research Foundation. Her main research areas are digital anthropology, anthropology of technology, science and technology studies, moral anthropology and ethics of technology, and digital methods.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
List of Figures 9
List of Abbreviations 11
1 Introduction: "We're Doing Something Completely New" 13
2 Approaching Human Computation-Based Citizen Science Analytically 33
3 Methodology: Encountering Human Computation Ethnographically 79
4 Envisioning and Designing the Future 101
5 Multiple Meanings and Everyday Negotiations: Play/Science Entanglements 139
6 Intraversions: Human-Technology Relations in Flux 183
7 Building Trust in and With Human Computation 247
8 Conclusions 273
Glossary 281
References 283