Algorithmic Violence and the social effect of computational security
Ultimately my interest is in how technologies condition the social world, especially in relation to security politics. This, I think happens both in mediating the debate that informs security politics (even if security is often portrayed as removed from democratic control) in the identification and portrayal of security problems, and in the implementation of (often violent) politics to address security questions. I have debated the role of computer vision in implementation in a collective discussion with people smarter than me:
Rocco Bellanova, Kristina Irion, Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, Francesco Ragazzi, Rune Saugmann, Lucy Suchman, Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence, International Political Sociology, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 121–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab003
And while not centered on computer vision (as it is not very active in mediating debate, at least not yet), I think that the technological structuring of security debate is as important – and here there may actually be some hope in that security debate can get somewhat more independent of elite discourse, as I argue in my investigation of how Black Lives Matter videos function as insecurity articulations.
Rune Saugmann Andersen, Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter, International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1471–1489, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae170
