Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone

Mads Bødker; Stefan Olavi Olofsson; Torkil Clemmensen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04091-8_10

Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone

Mads Bødker, Stefan Olavi Olofsson, Torkil Clemmensen

Department of Digitalization

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Abstract

In the paper we offer a story of re-figuring a consumer drone as a way of “living with monsters”. If drones are “monstrous”, what potentials might lie in re-framing them as more benign, civic, or even perhaps enchanted? Based on a field study of work at a makerspace, we present re-figuring as a process of reflecting, interacting and imagining the function of a drone, using gradually developing intuitions as well as an emergent felt ‘sense’ of the drone in practice. Using an analytic trajectory broadly based on philosophies of affect, we suggest how felt relations to technology can potentially become further involved in a critical move towards re-figuring “monstrous” technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Living with Monsters? : Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology
Editors	Ulrike Schultze, Margunn Aanestad, Magnus Mähring, Carsten Østerlund, Kai Riemer
Number of pages	13
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2018
Pages	127-139
ISBN (Print)	9783030040901
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030040918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04091-8_10
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on the Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization: Living with Monsters? Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency and the Performativity of Technology - San Francisco State University, San Francisco, United States Duration: 11 Dec 2018 → 11 Dec 2018 http://2018conf.ifipwg82.org/

Conference

Conference	IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on the Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization
Location	San Francisco State University
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	11/12/2018 → 11/12/2018
Internet address	http://2018conf.ifipwg82.org/

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

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Drones
Re-figuring
Design

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Bødker, Mads ; Olofsson, Stefan Olavi ; Clemmensen, Torkil. / Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone. Living with Monsters?: Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. editor / Ulrike Schultze ; Margunn Aanestad ; Magnus Mähring ; Carsten Østerlund ; Kai Riemer. Cham : Springer, 2018. pp. 127-139 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 543).

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Bødker, M, Olofsson, SO & Clemmensen, T 2018, Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone. in U Schultze, M Aanestad, M Mähring, C Østerlund & K Riemer (eds), Living with Monsters?: Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. Springer, Cham, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 543, pp. 127-139, IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on the Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization, San Francisco, California, United States, 11/12/2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04091-8_10

Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone. / Bødker, Mads; Olofsson, Stefan Olavi; Clemmensen, Torkil.
Living with Monsters?: Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. ed. / Ulrike Schultze; Margunn Aanestad; Magnus Mähring; Carsten Østerlund; Kai Riemer. Cham: Springer, 2018. p. 127-139 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 543).

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