In recent history, the internet has been considered a place where disembodied users can escape the limitations of their corporeal bodies. But in the contemporary moment, the digital and the physical worlds have become mutually constitutive. What happens when a politics of race, sexuality, and gender is centered in an analysis of digital activity? L...
For several years, the various practices around ML techniques have been increasingly present and diversified. However, the literature associated with these techniques rarely reveals the cultural and political sides of these practices. In order to explore how practitioners in the NIME community engage with ML techniques, we conducted interviews with...
This habilitation deals with the study of machine learning in situated interaction, where I propose and articulate three interdependent analytical points of view: tool, material and culture. These three perspectives define the structure of the manuscript.In the first part, I consider machine learning as a tool. I propose to begin with theoretical w...
Published in Sociology of health & illness
From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears have been raised worldwide regarding the unique challenges facing socially marginalised people such as those who inject drugs. This article draws on in-depth interviews conducted during the first year of the pandemic with people who inject drugs living in urban and regional Australia. Perhaps the most...
This dissertation on “infrastructuring Digital Health Technologies” draws on science and technology, Foucauldian, and socio-legal studies to examine the attempts to govern ‘medical’ digital health technologies – encompassing wearables, big data platforms, Electronic Health Records, Artificial Intelligence, and mhealth - within EU and US health-poli...
This dissertation examines the sociotechnical dynamics of renewable energy transition in Austin, Texas and considers their implications for developing more just and effective modes of environmental governance. While considerable advancements have been made in terms of reducing the City’s carbon emissions, their basis in the techniques and practices...
This thesis examines the smartphone as a security device through a comprehensive summary and four independent papers. The thesis starts from the observation that a central and yet underexplored characteristic of contemporary security politics is that the smartphone, as one especially important piece of consumer technology, is increasingly being tra...
An exploration into the design of a portable music player for people with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Published in Frontiers in Water
Against the background of a renewed interest in interdisciplinary water research, we begin this paper by diagnosing a need for deeper engagement at the epistemological and ontological level. We then analyse the ontological and epistemological commitments of three modeling examples: an academic human-flood model, a nutrient transfer decision support...
This thesis examines the politics of country of origin information (COI). This form of knowledge production is of crucial importance to all those involved in refugee status determination procedures, especially asylum seekers. But while the recent expansion, professionalisation and standardisation of COI in Europe is striking, so far, its effects on...
