[Themaintainers] (Talk) Eugenia Stamboliev - Maintaining Trust in Technology 9.5.22

[mark young]

Dear all,

We’d like to announce the next session of the SPT special interest group on
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology on Thursday 9th June (1800-1915
UTC+1). In this session, Eugenia Stamboliev (University of Vienna) will be
exploring how attending to maintenance practices can inform discussions of
trustworthiness in relation to online platforms. If you’d like to receive a
link for the talk please email me at mark at markthomasyoung.net. The schedule
for the remainder of the year follows below,

Mark


*Maintaining / Trust in / Technology*

Eugenia Stamboliev (University of Vienna)

Thursday 9th June (1800-1915 UTC+1)

Considering that the maintenance of technology is *technology in practice*,
how would this affect how we trust in technology? This presentation
examines methodological challenges around trust in technology. Moving from
trust as bound to relying or knowing about technological operations and
societal effects, I suggest positioning the question of trust within the
maintaining process. My approach in how to assign or understand trust in
technology shifts away from norming trust as a stable quality that can be
assigned to design features, or enhanced by their transparency, reliability
or explainability. I do this to enable a neglected focus on maintenance to
emerge, which embeds untrustworthy conditions of platform labour that is
worthy of more attention. By focusing on maintenance, I will focus on
the *labour
within* technologies like platforms arguing that not only are they
practices which are ongoing and never finished, but also that the
conditions of maintaining are often problematic and for this reason should
not be trusted. However, I point out that most trust/worthiness frameworks
do not acknowledge the *labour within* technology as part of their concept
due to their normative directions. Hence, by making a case for the
inclusion of maintenance into thinking *technology as practice, *we can
talk about neglected issues like labour conditions in platforms and
acknowledge their relevance to the trustworthiness of technology. Seeing
maintenance as an important part of technology and its narratives offers us
a way to use trust as a critique of what goes into technology, be it labour
conditions or other forms of injustices that lie outside design errors or
lack of transparency.

*Maintenance & Philosophy of Technology SIG - Schedule 2022:*

June 9th 2022                (18-1915 UTC+1)
Eugenia Stamboliev (U Vienna) “Rethinking Maintenance as Part of
Trustworthiness”

August 11th 2022           (18-1915 UTC+1)
Tom Fisher (NTU) “Repairing things repairs people”

September 8th 2022      (18-1915 UTC+1)
Cristina Bernabeau & Jesus Vega Encabo (Autonomous U Madrid) “The Privilege
of Maintenance and Repair in shaping and understanding our Artifactual World

October 13th 2022         (18-1915 UTC+1)
Taylor Stone (U Bonn) and Aimee Van Wynesberghe (U Bonn) “On the Things of
the Internet: AI for Maintenance and the Maintenance of AI

November 10th 2022     (18-1915 UTC+1)
Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto Univ.) “Aesthetic Values in the Maintenance of Urban
Technologies”

December 8th 2022        (18-1915 UTC+1)
Simon Penny (UCI) "Making Maintenance Possible Again: Finding Ethical and
Sustainable Paths Through Consumerism, Disposability and Inbuilt
Obsolescence"

(In order to avoid confusion regarding the timing of the talk - the
following table clarifies when the talk begins in different locations)

Amsterdam 7:00pm
London 6:00pm
Toronto (New York) 1:00pm
San Francisco 10:00am
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