Co-creating a Transdisciplinary Map of Technology-mediated Harms, Risks and Vulnerabilities: Challenges, Ambivalences and Opportunities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02332v2
• Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:18:46 GMT
• Title: Co-creating a Transdisciplinary Map of Technology-mediated Harms, Risks and Vulnerabilities: Challenges, Ambivalences and Opportunities
• Authors: Andr\'es Dom\'inguez Hern\'andez, Kopo M. Ramokapane, Partha Das Chowdhury, Ola Michalec, Emily Johnstone, Emily Godwin, Alicia G Cork, Awais Rashid
• Abstract summary: We draw lessons from a journey of co-creating a knowledge infrastructure within a large research initiative animated by the online harms agenda. We argue that the map -- and the process of mapping -- perform three functions, acting simultaneously as method, medium and provocation. We call for CSCW research to surface and engage with the multiple temporalities, social lives and political sensibilities of knowledge infrastructures.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The phrase "online harms" has emerged in recent years out of a growing political willingness to address the ethical and social issues associated with the use of the Internet and digital technology at large. The broad landscape that surrounds online harms gathers a multitude of disciplinary, sectoral and organizational efforts while raising myriad challenges and opportunities for the crossing entrenched boundaries. In this paper we draw lessons from a journey of co-creating a transdisciplinary knowledge infrastructure within a large research initiative animated by the online harms agenda. We begin with a reflection of the implications of mapping, taxonomizing and constructing knowledge infrastructures and a brief review of how online harm and adjacent themes have been theorized and classified in the literature to date. Grounded on our own experience of co-creating a map of online harms, we then argue that the map -- and the process of mapping -- perform three mutually constitutive functions, acting simultaneously as method, medium and provocation. We draw lessons from how an open-ended approach to mapping, despite not guaranteeing consensus, can foster productive debate and collaboration in ethically and politically fraught areas of research. We end with a call for CSCW research to surface and engage with the multiple temporalities, social lives and political sensibilities of knowledge infrastructures.

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