Anders Kristian Munk

• Aalborg University

Background Currently, much of Africa’s inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) epidemiology status is unknown.1 While a few observational studies suggest a rise in incidence, alternative methods are necessary to gather widespread data on IBD until systematically collected health data become available. Google Trends has been used to study specific diseases...

This paper provides a theoretical alternative to the prevailing perception of machine learning as synonymous with speed and efficiency. Inspired by ethnographic fieldwork and grounded in pragmatist philosophy, we introduce the concept of “data friction” as the situation when encounters between held beliefs and data patterns possess the potential to...

Mounting critique of the way AI is framed in mainstream media calls for less sensationalist coverage, be it jubilant or apocalyptic, and more attention to the concrete situations in which AI becomes controversial in different ways. This is supposedly achieved by making coverage more expert-informed. We therefore explore how experts contribute to th...

Background There is little to no evidence on the status of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Africa. Due to a lack of epidemiological data for the disease on the continent, alternative methods are necessary to gather information data on IBD. Google Trends has been used to study specific diseases and symptoms through an epidemiological lens, and k...

This paper presents and justifies Gephisto, an experimental tool visualizing networks in one click. Gephisto’s design exemplifies how we can interfere with a user’s utilitarian goals, by giving them what they wish (an easy way to get a network map) but in disobedient ways (the produced map is different every time the tool is used) that encourage th...

According to Clifford Geertz, the purpose of anthropology is not to explain culture but to explicate it. That should cause us to rethink our relationship with machine learning. It is, we contend, perfectly possible that machine learning algorithms, which are unable to explain, and could even be unexplainable themselves, can still be of critical use...

Reading across the contributions of this book, this comment argues for a “Caring for big data” in critical proximity with the tools and techniques of data scientific practices. Contrary to a critically distant position, caring for big data in critical proximity is to practice it differently. It raises the question of how tools for data harvest, ana...

How ten making & doing projects expand STS scholarship through a focus on knowledge expression and knowledge travel in addition to knowledge production. Making & doing projects expand STS scholarship to include the trajectories of STS knowledge flow beyond the boundaries of the field by actively interweaving knowledge expression and travel with kno...

Nærværende artikel bidrager med en præsentation af forskningsprojektet Deltagelsens Grammatik: Hverdagens Digitalisering under Coronakrisen, som havde til formål med kort varsel at indsamle kvalitative data om hverdagens digitalisering under Danmarks nedlukning fra april til midt juni 2020. Artiklen præsenterer projektets design, de anvendte metode...

Social media is a powerful communication tool through its universality and ease of access, which potentially has a huge impact on implementation of wind power. This study investigate a large corpus of Danish Facebook pages advocating anti-wind power viewpoints, distinguishing between localisation, different user groups, subjects and activity types....

This article recounts and reflects on our experience of interacting with Facebook’s data infrastructure during some pivotal months of change in early 2018. We show how the technical affordances of the Application Programming Interface (API) have critical consequences for the practice of digital controversy mapping and hence argue for the necessity...

Through the example of a web corpus built to study the emergence of the New Nordic Food phenomenon in Scandinavia, I discuss how quali-quantitative analysis can help us make sense of onlife traces. I propose four styles of analysis that address the meaning problem in different ways, namely 1) through complementarity , a division of labour in which...

Making publics visible through digital traces has recently generated interest by practitioners of public engagement and scholars within the field of digital methods. This paper presents an experiment in moving such methods into critical proximity with political practice and discusses how digital visualizations of topical debates become appropriated...

The recent rise of computation‐based methods in social science has opened new opportunities for exploring qualitative questions through analysis of large amounts of text. This article uses a mixed‐methods design that incorporates machine reading, network analysis, semantic analysis, and qualitative analysis of 414 highly cited publications on obeso...

Este artigo discute diferenças e afinidades entre três tipos de rede (Ator-Rede, Análise de Redes e Redes Digitais) importantes para o Digital STS. 2 Nas últimas décadas, a colonização de pesquisas em STS foi lenta e gradual. Ela se inicia com a Teoria Ator-Rede (TAR), que oferece um conjunto de noções para descrever a construção de fenômenos socio...

Vi argumenterer for, at falske nyheder skal forstås og undersøges empirisk i deres natur- lige habitat. Falske nyheder bør ikke blot håndteres som et spil whack-a-mole, hvor formålet er at slå det falske ned, hver gang det dukker op, som var det et muldvarpehoved i en spilleautomat, men derimod at forsøge at forstå de gange, muldvarpen graver.

Digitale metoders centrale postulat er, at vi kan genanvende nettets medier til at sige noget om samfundet i øvrigt. Det gælder ikke mindst indenfor kontroverskortlægningen,hvor digitale medier er blevet væsentlige skuepladser for diskussioner om ny viden og teknologi. Begrebet genanvendelse synes at indebære, at en eksisterende metodisk og analyti...

This paper discusses the differences and affinities among three types of networks (namely Actor-?Network, Network Analysis and Digital Networks) that are playing an increasingly important role in digital STS.In the last few decades, the idea of ‘network’ has slowly but steadily colonized broad strands of STS research. This colonization started with...

Digitaliseringen af sociale omgangsformer giver både nye muligheder og udfordringer for samfundsvidenskabelig og humanistisk forskning. Det er blevet relativt enkelt at høste meget store datamængder fra sociale medier og lignende internetteknologier, men det er et åbent spørgsmål, hvad man stiller op med denne overflod af nye digitale spor. Hvad er...

An advantage of the playground metaphor is that it comes with the activity of going out on ‘play dates’ and developing friendships. In such playful relationships, there is always something at stake, but the interaction is also fun and inherently exploratory. In the following, we take a tour of five recent collaborative projects that the TANTlab has...

Since 2015, TANTlab has served as hub for experimentation with digital methods among the researchers in the Techno-Anthropology Research Group at the Department of Learning and Philosophy. TANTlab was founded on the basis of several years work on researching and teaching digital methods, not least for the bachelor and master programs in Techno-anth...

The paper discusses three ways of appropriating Instagram for social research through the case of obesity. We draw on the notion obesogenic environments, in which obesity is understood as related to a wide range of cultural, social and physical factors. Together with a group of obesity researchers and cultural analysts we explored a dataset of 82,4...

Climaps.eu is an online atlas providing data, visualizations and commentaries about climate adaptation debate. It contains 33 issue-maps and 5 issue-stories. Each of the maps focuses on one issue in the adaptation debate and provides.The atlas is addressed to climate experts (negotiators, NGOs and companies concerned by global warming, journalistsl...

Climaps.eu is an online atlas providing data, visualizations and commentaries about climate adaptation debate. It contains 33 issue-maps and 5 issue-stories. Each of the maps focuses on one issue in the adaptation debate and provides.The atlas is addressed to climate experts (negotiators, NGOs and companies concerned by global warming, journalistsl...

This paper revisits the cartography of material folk culture from the point of view of a current cartographic project in science and technology studies (STS) known as controversy mapping. Considering the mutual learning that has already taken place between ethnological engagements with material culture and material semiotic strands of STS, we ask,...

As part the Wind2050 project funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research we have mapped controversies on wind energy as they unfold online. Specifically we have collected two purpose built datasets, a web corpus containing information from 758 wind energy websites in 6 different countries, and a smaller social media corpus containing inform...

In vogue: the new everyday of cultural analysis Based on two examples from user-driven innovation projects, we discuss what it means to undertake cultural analysis when the task is to change practices of everyday life. Whether it is about new garbage bins or new bathrooms, the examples enable us to demonstrate how and why companies and public-secto...

Recent papers by prominent scholars in science and technology studies (notably John Law and Bruno Latour) have crystallized a fundamental disagreement about the scope and purpose of intervention inactor-network theory or what we here choose to bracket as empirical philosophy. While the precept of agnostic description is taken as a given, the desire...