Pedagogic encounters with algorithmic system controversies: a toolkit for democratising technology

There is a broad impetus across policy and institutional domains to expand public engagement and involvement with emerging technology research and innovation. Yet innovative theory, methods, and practices to critically explore algorithmic system controversies and democratic possibilities are still i...

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Published in:Journal of educational media : the journal of the Educational Television Association 2023-04, Vol.48 (2), p.226-239
Main Authors: Swist, Teresa, Humphry, Justine, Gulson, Kalervo N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
algorithmic system controversies
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Data Analysis
Datafication
Democracy
democratic design
Design
infrastructuring
Innovation
Innovations
New technology
pedagogic encounters toolkit
Pedagogy
Public participation
School Safety
Science and Society
Technology Uses in Education
Toolkits
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Summary:There is a broad impetus across policy and institutional domains to expand public engagement and involvement with emerging technology research and innovation. Yet innovative theory, methods, and practices to critically explore algorithmic system controversies and democratic possibilities are still in nascent form. In this paper, we bring together thinking about public pedagogy, infrastructuring, and democratic design to introduce a novel pedagogic encounters toolkit, where pedagogic encounters are defined as: opportunities for learning together about the emergence, relationality, and uncertainty of algorithmic system controversies. A framework with accompanying practices and examples is outlined for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to creatively and critically explore these pedagogic encounters within specific contexts. We conclude with implications for future investigations attentive to making democratic designs in a datafied society. In doing so, this paper informs theoretical and methodological innovation to the study of algorithmic system controversies and democratising technology.
ISSN:1743-9884
1743-9892
DOI:10.1080/17439884.2023.2185255