Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave) book launch
| Dates: | 21 November 2024 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Book launch |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Sam Hind |
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Sam Hind (Art History and Cultural Practices, SALC) will be in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam) on Thursday 21st November, 4-5.30pm to launch his new book, Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave).
The event is supported by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media. https://www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/
To sign-up to the (online) event, follow the link: https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_eDqtLrOJ5Cl7nNA
About the book
Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic decision-making, the book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end’ ML models at autonomous vehicle start-ups.
The book intends to complicate, and question, typical understandings of autonomous driving by going ‘under the hood’, challenging the technological determinism or ‘decisionism’ that advocates offer of an inevitable, fully automated, future. Drawing on seven years of research in a range of empirical contexts, the book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of science and technology studies, media studies, digital sociology, human geography, and mobilities and transport studies.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1749-1
Speaker
Sam Hind
Role: Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Sam Hind is lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. He is currently researching autonomous driving, the phenomenon of ‘challenges’ in AI, the history of computer simulation, and the platformization of automobility. Alex Gekker is assistant professor in Digital Research Methods at the University of Amsterdam. His research incorporates various aspects of digital media, primarily focusing on platforms and interfaces to analyse maps, surveillance assemblages, autonomous cars, videogame ecosystems and more.
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