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Sensors and Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies.

Authors :
Gabrys, Jennifer
Pritchard, Helen
Houston, Lara
Source :
Science, Technology & Human Values; Sep2019, Vol. 44 Issue 5, p723-736, 14p
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

This editorial examines how sensing practices are transforming through proliferating sensor technologies and altered sensing relations. Rather than engage with sensing as a project of the human mind or body as usually delineated within sensory classifications, this overview of sensors and sensing practices documents how sensing entities are emerging that are composed of shifting ensembles of multiple humans and more-than-humans, environments and technologies, politics and practices. By decoupling sensing from its exclusive human orientation, the editorial and collection demonstrate how reworked approaches to sensing make it possible to tune in to how involvement with environmental problems unfolds and endures. The collection asks how sensing practices might be crafted that attend to the distributed and accumulative inequalities of environmental problems and to speculate toward differential collectives for addressing environmental crisis and change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
DETECTORS
EXPERIENCE
ECOLOGY

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01622439
Volume :
44
Issue :
5
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Science, Technology & Human Values
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
137928373
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919860211