DATA C104 - Midterm Notes

DATA C104 - Midterm Notes HCE Toolkit: Agency - correct answer-The ability or capacity to act or exert power - Technology allows people to perceive and exert some degree of control over their sociotechnical relations Cases: - Algorithmic decision-making (COMPAS, Gig economy laborers) - Real-time interplay of human and mechanical agency (autonomous vehicles, pilots) - Patients tracking their health through data apps and devices - Google Walkout - Disruptive innovation and the tech entrepreneur agent HCE Toolkit: Classification - correct answer-Implicit and explicit social organization of beings and knowledge into discrete categories governed by identifiable principles - Societies produce knowledge and do work (with technologies) by sorting, ordering, and classifying phenomena - Informs social order and vice versa - When people classify, human assumptions and judgments enter into data, with or without