Object-Oriented Publics
summary
The paper claims computation acts as a constituent of publics rather than merely amplifying people and demonstrates this with two prototypes: object-oriented publics as an analytic lens, Cycle Atlanta — a smartphone app that logs routes, ride purpose and demographics and whose datasets reshuffle planning rhetoric (low or no ridership maps to majority African American neighborhoods and planners invoke future data to justify present decisions), and the Tiny Tinkering Platform — a minimal microcontroller plus retail sensors for offline, bottom-up IoT indicators (coffee temp, plant watering, mail, blinds) that successfully produces alternative material-computational publics.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:05Actor Network Theory
- 4:32Cycle Atlanta
- 5:32Digital Democracy
- 13:27Takeaways
- 14:39Artifacts of Computation
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